Year-End Lists

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The Mercury Prize: 2026 Award
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Center for Fiction: 2026 First Novel Prize
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We Tell Ourselves Stories

Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine

by Alissa Wilkinson

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Nonfiction 2026: Carnegie Medal Longlisted

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115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The Best Books of 2022 Esquire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 Esquire
2026 Award The Mercury Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
2026 Award The Booker Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times

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Phantom Pain Wings Kim Hyesoon
Ducks Kate Beaton
The Eternal Son Cristovão Tezza
Diary of the Fall Michel Laub
Let the Great World Spin Colum McCann
Love and Summer William Trevor
Matterhorn Karl Marlantes
Letters to Camondo Edmund de Waal
Black Car Burning Helen Mort
Jeune Femme Léonor Serraille
The Town with Matthew Belloni
The Bee Sting Paul Murray
Even the Dogs Jon McGregor
The Imposter Bart Layton

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