Year-End Lists

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Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2026
Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
National Book Award: Fiction 2026
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by Lauren Elkin

Appears on two lists

21 Best Books of 2024: Vanity Fair
The Best Books of 2024: Boston Globe Fiction

Trending Lists

Fiction 2026 Women's Prize
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2026 National Book Award
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings Damon Packard
love has never been a popular movement. TYGAPAW
Science Without Substance Daniel Barnett
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
Avatar: The Way of Water James Cameron
Moon of the Turning Leaves Waubgeshig Rice
Black Folk Could Fly Randall Kenan
The Seed of the Sacred Fig Mohammad Rasoulof
Twin Peaks: The Return David Lynch
The Consciousness Instinct Michael S. Gazzaniga
This Is Where the Serpent Lives Daniyal Mueenuddin
Lumi Vaientaa Kysymykset Circle of Ouroborus

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