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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Love, Gilda

by Lisa Dapolito

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Best Movies Directed By Women in 2018: Valerie Ettenhofer: Film School Rejects

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

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

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