Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Scary Monsters

A Novel in Two Parts

by Michelle De Kretser

Appears on two lists

Fiction 2022: Kirkus Reviews: Kirkus Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2022: Laura Miller: Slate

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100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
My Favorite Fiction of 2020 Katy Waldman · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll

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Down Cemetery Road
Red Capriccio Blake Williams
Them
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Drumming Up Trouble Alvin Curran
Titanic Rising Weyes Blood
The Giverny Document (Single Channel) Ja’Tovia Gary
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley David Waldstreicher
Declaration of War Valérie Donzelli
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line Deepa Anappara
La Pivellina Tizza Covi

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