Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Lists

Best Books of 2020: Refinery29

2021 Award: Dylan Thomas Prize
The Best Books of 2020: Thrillist

Trending Lists

Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
The Ice Tower Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Ad Astra James Gray
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Southernmost Leo Boix
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Saint Omer Alice Diop
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue

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