Year-End Lists

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Guardian: The 50 Best Movies of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
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The Lump in My Heart

by Shingo Matsumura

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8 Best Films of 2022: Colette Balmain: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

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Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Fiction 2026 Women's Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Fiction 2026 National Book Award
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 50 Best Movies of 2025 Guardian
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker

Trending Works

Moon of the Turning Leaves Waubgeshig Rice
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
love has never been a popular movement. TYGAPAW
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
Lumi Vaientaa Kysymykset Circle of Ouroborus
This Is Where the Serpent Lives Daniyal Mueenuddin
Black Folk Could Fly Randall Kenan
The Seed of the Sacred Fig Mohammad Rasoulof
Twin Peaks: The Return David Lynch
The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings Damon Packard
Avatar: The Way of Water James Cameron
The Consciousness Instinct Michael S. Gazzaniga
Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg
Science Without Substance Daniel Barnett

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