Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Booker Prize: 2026 Award
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Uncover (The Village)

Appears on two lists

#3 The Best Podcasts of 2019: Sarah Larson: New Yorker
#18 The 50 Best Podcasts of 2019: Atlantic

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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