Year-End Lists

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A.A. Dowd: The Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2026
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
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The Better Angels of Our Nature

Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker

Appears on two lists

8 Ten Best Books of 2011: Library Journal

100 Notable Books of 2011: New York Times Nonfiction

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The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Albums of 2020 The Ringer
31 Best Fiction Books of 2017 Guardian
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
The 50 Best Movies of 2025 Guardian
100 Notable Books of 2022 New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times

Trending Works

London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
Moon of the Turning Leaves Waubgeshig Rice
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? Roz Chast
Black Folk Could Fly Randall Kenan
Catastrophe
Lumi Vaientaa Kysymykset Circle of Ouroborus
Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff
Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg
Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking C.T. Salazar
A Hymn to Life Gisèle Pelicot
Paradise Slow Club
Science Without Substance Daniel Barnett
Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
We Are Inside Farah Kassem

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