Year-End Lists

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The Center for Fiction: 2026 First Novel Prize
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Seduced by Story

The Use and Abuse of Narrative

by Peter Brooks

Appears on two lists

#3 The Best Books of 2022: J. Howard Rosier: Chron
#9 The Best Books of 2022: New York: Vulture

Trending Lists

Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
Top 15 Films of 2014 Noel Murray · The Dissolve
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski

Trending Works

KPop Demon Hunters Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans
Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend
The Next Time You See Me Holly Goddard Jones
Essays One Lydia Davis
The History of Living Forever Jake Wolff
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
Circe Madeline Miller
Baldwin, Styron, and Me Mélikah Abdelmoumen
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
The Substance Coralie Fargeat
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield

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