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
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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by Natalie Morales

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9 Best Films of 2021: Melanie Hoyes: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

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

Trending Works

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

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