Year-End Lists

Loud And Quiet: Albums of the Year 2023, voted by contributors

[see also 2022 • 2021]

1. False Lankum
   Lankum
2. Scaring the Hoes
   JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
3. in​||FLUX
   Anna B Savage
4. Vidrio
   Titanic
5. Heavy Heavy
   Young Fathers
6. yew
   Rosie Carr
7. Formal Growth In The Desert
   Protomartyr
8. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
   Yves Tumor
9. Look Over the Wall, See the Sky
   John Francis Flynn
10. trip9love...???
    Tirzah
11. Girl with Fish
    Feeble Little Horse
12. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
13. I've Got Me
    Joanna Sternberg
14. Land of Sleeper
    Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
15. Black Classical Music
    Yussef Dayes
16. Nails
    Benefits
17. The Greater Wings
    Julie Byrne
18. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
19. O Monolith
    Squid
20. Mid Air
    Paris Texas
21. I've Seen a Way
    Mandy, Indiana
22. the record
    boygenius
23. What's Bad Enough?
    Comfort
24. Perfect Picture
    Hannah Diamond
25. Systemic
    Divide and Dissolve
26. Reflections Vol. 1: Let the Moon Be a Planet
    Steve Gunn & David Moore
27. Less
    deathcrash
28. Tracey Denim
    Bar Italia
29. Standers
    Craven Faults
30. A New Tomorrow
    Zulu
31. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
32. End Of Everything
    Mega Bog
33. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
    Mitski
34. Could Have Done Anything
    Charlotte Cornfield
35. UK Grim
    Sleaford Mods
36. I Get Into Trouble
    Maple Glider
37. ს ა დ გ უ რ ი [Station]
    Beqa Ungiadze
38. I Killed Your Dog
    L'Rain
39. Erotic Probiotic 2
    Nourished By Time
40. Good Living Is Coming For You
    Sweeping Promises

Eliana Dockterman: The 10 Best Podcasts of 2023, as published by Time Magazine along with a recommended starter episode for each one.

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020]

1. The Retrievals
2. Classy with Jonathan Menjivar
3. Sold a Story
4. Hard Fork
5. Search Engine
6. You Didn't See Nothin
7. Critics at Large
8. McCartney: A Life in Lyrics
9. ParentData with Emily Oster
10. Strike Force Five

Financial Times: Best Fiction of 2023, selected by Laura Battle and Andrew Dickson

• August Blue
  Deborah Levy
• Old God's Time
  Sebastian Barry
• The Late Americans
  Brandon Taylor
• Soldier Sailor
  Claire Kilroy
• The House of Doors
  Tan Twang Eng
• Our Strangers
  Lydia Davis
• Tremor
  Teju Cole
• The Pole and Other Stories
  J.M. Coetzee
• In Ascension
  Martin MacInnes
• The Guest
  Emma Cline
• The Fraud
  Zadie Smith

Chicago Public Library: Top 10 Books of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014]

• Absolution
  Alice McDermott
• All the Sinners Bleed
  S.A. Cosby
• Chain-Gang All-Stars
  Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• The Great Displacement

  Climate Change and the Next American Migration
  Jake Bittle
• Hello Beautiful
  Ann Napolitano
• Our Migrant Souls

  A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
  Héctor Tobar
• The Talk
  Darrin Bell
• Tom Lake
  Ann Patchett
• The Wager

  A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  David Grann
• Yellowface
  R.F. Kuang

The Economist: The Best Films of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

• Anatomy of a Fall
  Justine Triet
• The Boy and the Heron
  Hayao Miyazaki
• The Creator
  Gareth Edwards
• The Holdovers
  Alexander Payne
• Holy Spider
  Ali Abbasi
• How to Have Sex
  Molly Manning Walker
• Killers of the Flower Moon
  Martin Scorsese
• Maestro
  Bradley Cooper
• Oppenheimer
  Christopher Nolan
• Past Lives
  Celine Song
• Poor Things
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• The Taste of Things
  Trần Anh Hùng
• Reality
  Tina Satter
• The Zone of Interest
  Jonathan Glazer

The Economist: The Best Television Shows of 2023

• Barry
• The Bear
• Beef
• Colin from Accounts
• The Crown
• Dead Ringers
• The Diplomat
• Fargo
• The Gold
• The Good Mothers
• Happy Valley
• The Last of Us
• Poker Face
• Succession
• Wave Makers

BookPage: The Best Nonfiction of 2023

[see also The Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Nonfiction of 2022 • Best Fiction of 2022 • Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction • Best Books of 2020: Fiction • Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 • Best Fiction Books of 2019]

• A Fever in the Heartland

  The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
  Timothy Egan
• A Man of Two Faces

  a Memoir, a History, a Memorial
  Viet Thanh Nguyen
• Gator Country

  Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
  Rebecca Renner
• Goodbye, Eastern Europe

  An Intimate History of a Divided Land
  Jacob Mikanowski
• I Saw Death Coming

  A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
  Kidada E. Williams
• King

  A Life
  Jonathan Eig
• Our Migrant Souls

  A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
  Héctor Tobar
• Owner of a Lonely Heart
  Beth Nguyen
• Rough Sleepers
  Tracy Kidder
• Still Life with Bones

  Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains
  Alexa Hagerty
• The Kneeling Man

  My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
  Leta McCollough Seletzky
• The Quickening

  Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
  Elizabeth Rush
• The Underworld

  Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
  Susan Casey
• The Wager

  A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  David Grann
• Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

  A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
  Tahir Hamut Izgil

BookPage: The Best Fiction of 2023

[see also The Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Nonfiction of 2022 • Best Fiction of 2022 • Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction • Best Books of 2020: Fiction • Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 • Best Fiction Books of 2019]

• Bellies
  Nicola Dinan
• Blackouts
  Justin Torres
• Crook Manifesto
  Colson Whitehead
• Happiness Falls
  Angie Kim
• In Memoriam
  Alice Winn
• Loot
  Tania James
• Return to Valetto
  Dominic Smith
• The Covenant of Water
  Abraham Verghese
• The Fraud
  Zadie Smith
• The Future
  Naomi Alderman
• The Great Reclamation
  Rachel Heng
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
  James McBride
• Tom Lake
  Ann Patchett
• Witness
  Jamel Brinkley

Powell's Books: Best Nonfiction of 2023

[see also Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Nonfiction of 2022 • Best Fiction of 2022 • The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 • The 18 Best Novels of 2021 • Best Fiction of 2020 • Best Nonfiction of 2020 • Best Fiction of 2019 • Best Nonfiction of 2019 • Best Fiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction of 2014 • Best Nonfiction of 2014]

• A Living Remedy
  Nicole Chung
• Raw Dog

  The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
  Jamie Loftus
• Pageboy
  Elliot Page
• Small Fires

  An Epic in the Kitchen
  Rebecca May Johnson
• Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
  Jane Wong
• How to Protect Bookstores and Why

  The Present and Future of Bookselling
  Danny Caine
• The Loneliness Files

  A Memoir in Essays
  Athena Dixon
• Doppelganger

  A Trip into the Mirror World
  Naomi Klein
• Shitty Craft Club

  A Club for Gluing Beads to Trash, Talking about Our Feelings, and Making Silly Things
  Sam Reece
• Leg

  The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
  Greg Marshall
• Practicing New Worlds

  Abolition and Emergent Strategies
  Andrea Ritchie
• Extremely Online

  The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
  Taylor Lorenz
• To Free the Captives

  A Plea for the American Soul
  Tracy K. Smith
• Poverty, by America
  Matthew Desmond
• Quietly Hostile

  Essays
  Samantha Irby
• Our Migrant Souls

  A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
  Héctor Tobar
• Monsters

  A Fan's Dilemma
  Claire Dederer
• The Rediscovery of America

  Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
  Ned Blackhawk
• The Upstairs Delicatessen

  On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
  Dwight Garner
• How to Say Babylon

  A Memoir
  Safiya Sinclair
• Wolfish

  Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
  Erica Berry
• Sink
  Joseph Earl Thomas
• Palo Alto

  A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
  Malcolm Harris

Powell's Books: Best Fiction of 2023

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Nonfiction of 2022 • Best Fiction of 2022 • The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 • The 18 Best Novels of 2021 • Best Fiction of 2020 • Best Nonfiction of 2020 • Best Fiction of 2019 • Best Nonfiction of 2019 • Best Fiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction of 2014 • Best Nonfiction of 2014]

• Terrace Story
  Hilary Leichter
• Dearborn
  Ghassan Zeineddine
• Land of Milk and Honey
  C Pam Zhang
• The Vaster Wilds
  Lauren Groff
• I Have Some Questions for You
  Rebecca Makkai
• I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
  Lorrie Moore
• Let Us Descend
  Jesmyn Ward
• Chain-Gang All-Stars
  Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Blackouts
  Justin Torres
• Our Share of Night
  Mariana Enriquez
• The Museum of Human History
  Rebekah Bergman
• Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare
  Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
• The MANIAC
  Benjamin Labatut
• Yellowface
  R.F. Kuang
• In Memoriam
  Alice Winn
• Mobility
  Lydia Kiesling
• Ripe
  Sarah Rose Etter
• The Laughter
  Sonora Jha
• The Liberators
  E.J. Koh
• The Late Americans
  Brandon Taylor
• Biography of X
  Catherine Lacey
• The Guest
  Emma Cline
• Roman Stories
  Jhumpa Lahiri