Year-End Lists

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
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Best Music of 2022 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Albums of 2021 Rolling Stone
Top 13 Albums of 2020 Slate

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The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2021 Robert Koehler · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2016 Emily St. James · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
2026 Award The Booker Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
Best Fiction of 2026 Goldsmiths Prize

Trending Works

The History of Living Forever Jake Wolff
Ruins, Child Giada Scodellaro
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
Said the Dead Doireann Ní Ghríofa
On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
Blow Yourself Up Ankur Thakkar
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
Whidbey T Kira Madden
The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford Nafissa Thompson-Spires
The Next Time You See Me Holly Goddard Jones
Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend
Kitten Stacey Yu

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