Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2026
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
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Arwen Curry

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
- Best Movies Directed By Women in 2018: Valerie Ettenhofer: Film School Rejects More noteworthy 2018 films directed by women

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Movies of 2019 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times

Trending Works

The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings Damon Packard
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg
Black Folk Could Fly Randall Kenan
Defiance Loubna Mrie
love has never been a popular movement. TYGAPAW
Horses Jake Skeets
Our Time Carlos Reygadas
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
I Never Learn Lykke Li
This Is Where the Serpent Lives Daniyal Mueenuddin
The Seed of the Sacred Fig Mohammad Rasoulof
Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe

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