Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
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This Way Up

Appears on five lists

#8 The Best TV Shows of 2019: Maggie Fremont: ScreenCrush
#11 The Best TV of 2019: LaToya Ferguson: A.V. Club
#17 The 50 Best TV Shows of 2021: Guardian
#32 The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019: Guardian

The Best TV Shows of 2021: Ben Travers: IndieWire The Alternative 10

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
The Best Films of 2014 Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · A.V. Club
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 15 Films of 2014 Noel Murray · The Dissolve
Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
The Next Time You See Me Holly Goddard Jones
KPop Demon Hunters Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans
The History of Living Forever Jake Wolff
Blow Yourself Up Ankur Thakkar
The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Circe Madeline Miller
On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
A Real Animal Emeline Atwood
Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones

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