Year-End Lists

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The Center for Fiction: 2026 First Novel Prize
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Jordan Cronk: Movies: 2021

Best Films of 2021 Jordan Cronk · Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Best Films of 2021 Jordan Cronk · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford Nafissa Thompson-Spires
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
Kitten Stacey Yu
Whidbey T Kira Madden
The History of Living Forever Jake Wolff
A Real Animal Emeline Atwood
The Next Time You See Me Holly Goddard Jones
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
Ruins, Child Giada Scodellaro
Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend
The Rouse China Miéville
Blow Yourself Up Ankur Thakkar

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