Year-End Lists

Jim DeRogatis: The Best Albums of 2023, as aired on Sound Opinions

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. the record
   boygenius
1. the rest
   boygenius
2. Rat Saw God
   Wednesday
3. Nothing's Gonna Stand in My Way Again
   Lydia Loveless
4. Weathervanes
   Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
5. Sleepwalker
   Louise Post
6. Central City
   Big Freedia
7. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
   Mitski
8. Strays
   Margo Price
9. Time's Arrow
   Ladytron
10. The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons
    The Hives
11. Hollow
    The Handsome Family
12. Let's Start Here
    Lil Yachty
13. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
14. Gold
    Cleo Sol
15. Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground
    The Feelies
16. I Don't Want You Anymore
    Cherry Glazerr
17. Lucky for You
    Bully
18. Joy'All
    Jenny Lewis
19. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
20. Desire Pathway
    Screaming Females

Alan Sepinwall: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2023, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Reservation Dogs
2. The Bear
3. Succession
4. Poker Face
5. The Last of Us
6. Beef
7. Blue Eye Samurai
8. Cunk on Earth
9. Somebody Somewhere
10. Party Down

Vogue: The Best Books of 2023

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2015]

• The Shards
  Bret Easton Ellis
• Sam
  Allegra Goodman
• The Survivalists
  Kashana Cauley
• Spare
  Prince Harry
• Big Swiss
  Jen Beagin
• Pat in the City

  My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules
  Patricia Field
• Cold People
  Tom Rob Smith
• The Everlasting Meal Cookbook

  Leftovers A-Z
  Tamar Adler
• Hello Beautiful
  Ann Napolitano
• Birnam Wood
  Eleanor Catton
• Pineapple Street
  Jenny Jackson
• The Kingdom of Prep

  The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew
  Maggie Bullock
• The Lost Wife
  Susanna Moore
• Independence Square
  Martin Cruz Smith
• The Half Moon
  Mary Beth Keane
• The Postcard
  Anne Berest
• Traffic

  Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral
  Ben Smith
• The Guest
  Emma Cline
• The Rachel Incident
  Caroline O'Donoghue
• The Quiet Tenant
  Clémence Michallon
• Little Monsters
  Adrienne Brodeur
• The Imposters
  Tom Rachman
• Young and Restless

  The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions
  Mattie Kahn
• Holding Pattern
  Jenny Xie
• I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
  Lorrie Moore
• After the Funeral and Other Stories
  Tessa Hadley
• The Last Ranger
  Peter Heller
• The Spider
  Lars Kepler
• The Quickening

  Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth
  Elizabeth Rush
• Learned by Heart
  Emma Donoghue
• The Fraud
  Zadie Smith
• Omega Farm

  A Memoir
  Martha McPhee
• Loved and Missed
  Susie Boyt
• How I Won a Nobel Prize
  Julius Taranto
• The Vaster Wilds
  Lauren Groff
• The Secret Hours
  Mick Herron
• The Children's Bach
  Helen Garner
• A Memoir of My Former Self

  A Life in Writing
  Hilary Mantel
• Absolution
  Alice McDermott
• Roman Stories
  Jhumpa Lahiri
• Vengeance Is Mine
  Marie NDiaye
• Let Us Descend
  Jesmyn Ward
• Sonic Life

  A Memoir
  Thurston Moore
• The Vulnerables
  Sigrid Nunez
• My Name is Barbra
  Barbra Streisand
• Ilium
  Lea Carpenter

Vogue: The Best TV Shows of 2023

[see also 2021]

• The Last of Us
• Stonehouse
• Extraordinary
• Poker Face
• Swarm
• Dead Ringers
• The Diplomat
• 100 Foot Wave
• Barry
• The Good Mothers
• Jury Duty
• Beef
• Happy Valley
• Succession
• The Bear
• Tour de France: Unchained
• Hijack
• Black Sands
• Beckham
• The Sixth Commandment
• Slow Horses

Vogue: The Best Albums of 2023

• 10,000 gecs
  100 gecs
• Fountain Baby
  Amaarae
• My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
  Anohni and the Johnsons
• Lucky for You
  Bully
• Sit Down for Dinner
  Blonde Redhead
• the record
  boygenius
• Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
  Caroline Polachek
• The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
  Chappell Roan
• Radical Romantics
  Fever Ray
• Volcano
  Jungle
• Mañana Será Bonito
  Karol G
• Raven
  Kelela
• Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
  Lana Del Rey
• Bewitched
  Laufey
• The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
  Mitski
• Life Under the Gun
  Militarie Gun
• Pink Friday 2
  Nicki Minaj
• Guts
  Olivia Rodrigo
• Mid Air
  Romy
• Javelin
  Sufjan Stevens
• Tomorrow's Fire
  Squirrel Flower
• Something to Give Each Other
  Troye Sivan
• V
  Unknown Mortal Orchestra
• Everyone's Crushed
  Water From Your Eyes
• With A Hammer
  yaeji
• Heavy Heavy
  Young Fathers
• Zach Bryan
  Zach Bryan

The Playlist: The 20 Best TV Shows Of 2023

[see also 2010s • 2018 • 2016]

1. Succession
2. Reservation Dogs
3. Beef
4. Barry
5. The Last of Us
6. The Bear
7. Silo
8. The Curse
9. Our Flag Means Death
10. Dead Ringers
11. Poker Face
12. Dark Winds
13. A Small Light
14. The Righteous Gemstones
15. What We Do in the Shadows
16. Fargo
17. Justified: City Primeval
18. Shrinking
19. Slow Horses
20. Full Circle

Honorable Mention Picks?

• Copenhagen Cowboy
• Abbott Elementary
• Somebody Somewhere
• Daisy Jones & the Six
• Platonic

The Playlist: The 21 Best Films of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018]

1. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
2. Poor Things
   Yorgos Lanthimos
3. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
4. Past Lives
   Celine Song
5. Anatomy of a Fall
   Justine Triet
6. Barbie
   Greta Gerwig
7. The Boy and the Heron
   Hayao Miyazaki
8. May December
   Todd Haynes
9. All of Us Strangers
   Andrew Haigh
10. Passages
    Ira Sachs
11. Perfect Days
    Wim Wenders
12. A Thousand and One
    A.V. Rockwell
13. The Holdovers
    Alexander Payne
14. The Delinquents
    Rodrigo Moreno
15. Killers of the Flower Moon
    Martin Scorsese
16. Showing Up
    Kelly Reichardt
17. The Taste of Things
    Trần Anh Hùng
18. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
    Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
19. Priscilla
    Sofia Coppola
20. The Killer
    David Fincher
21. Eileen
    William Oldroyd

Honorable Mention

• Maestro
  Bradley Cooper
• Ferrari
  Michael Mann
• All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
  Raven Jackson
• Earth Mama
  Savanah Leaf
• Origin
  Ava DuVernay
• You Hurt My Feelings
  Nicole Holofcener
• El Conde
  Pablo Larraín
• The Eight Mountains
  Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch
• American Fiction
  Cord Jefferson
• Flora and Son
  John Carney
• Fair Play
  Chloe Domont
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline
  Daniel Goldhaber
• The Royal Hotel
  Kitty Green
• BlackBerry
  Matt Johnson
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
  Christopher McQuarrie

Verso Books: The Year 2023 in 10 Books. "Deepen your understanding..."

[see also 2017]

• The Palestine Laboratory

  How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
  Antony Loewenstein
• Pharmanomics

  How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health
  Nick Dearden
• Bodies Under Siege

  How the Far-Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global
  Sian Norris
• After Work

  The Politics of Free Time
  Helen Hester & Nick Srnicek
• What Is Antiracism?

  And Why It Means Anticapitalism
  Arun Kundnani
• Shattered Nation

  Inequality and the Geography of A Failing State
  Danny Dorling
• The Internet Con

  How to Seize the Means of Computation
  Cory Doctorow
• Our Lives in Their Portfolios

  Why Asset Managers Own the World
  Brett Christophers
• Tokens

  The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform
  Rachel O'Dwyer
• Crooked Plow
  Itamar Vieira Junior

Brooklyn Vegan: Top 55 Albums of 2023

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

1. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
   Mitski
2. Maps
   Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
2. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
   Armand Hammer
3. Javelin
   Sufjan Stevens
4. The Whaler
   Home Is Where
5. Radical Romantics
   Fever Ray
6. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
   Caroline Polachek
7. Rat Saw God
   Wednesday
8. The Greater Wings
   Julie Byrne
9. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
   Lana Del Rey
10. the record
    boygenius
11. Higher Lonely Power
    Fireworks
12. Ontological Mysterium
    Horrendous
13. Sundial
    Noname
14. Life Under the Gun
    Militarie Gun
15. Quaranta
    Danny Brown
15. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
16. chaos takes the wheel and i am a passenger
    awakebutstillinbed
17. Weathervanes
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
18. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
    Anohni and the Johnsons
19. Post-American
    MSPAINT
20. Prestige
    Girl Ray
21. Like..?
    Ice Spice
22. everything is alive
    Slowdive
23. The Enduring Spirit
    Tomb Mold
24. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
25. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
26. Calling the Dogs
    Citizen
27. Multitudes
    Feist
28. Desolation's Flower
    Ragana
29. Dogsbody
    Model/Actriz
30. Blondshell
    Blondshell
31. Through the Window
    Prewn
32. 93696
    Liturgy
33. The Window
    Ratboys
34. I've Got Me
    Joanna Sternberg
35. Fountain Baby
    Amaarae
36. I've Seen a Way
    Mandy, Indiana
37. Generational Curse
    ICECOLDBISHOP
38. Zach Bryan
    Zach Bryan
38. Boys of Faith
    Zach Bryan
39. Faith Is A Rock
    MIKE, Wiki & The Alchemist
39. 14K Figaro
    Wiki & Tony Seltzer
39. Burning Desire
    Mike
40. Why Would I Watch
    Hot Mulligan
41. The Age of Pleasure
    Janelle Monáe
42. Hood Hottest Princess
    Sexyy Red
43. Playing Robots into Heaven
    James Blake
44. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
45. With A Hammer
    yaeji
46. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
47. Psychic Dance Routine
    Scowl
48. Good Living Is Coming For You
    Sweeping Promises
49. Cerebral Circus
    Initiate
50. Saturnian Bloodstorm
    Lamp Of Murmuur
51. Goodnight Summerland
    Helena Deland
52. A New Tomorrow
    Zulu
53. Some of It Was True
    The Menzingers
54. In But Not Of
    Afterbirth
55. After the Magic
    Parannoul

A.A. Dowd: The Best Films of 2023, as published by Chron

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013]

1. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
2. May December
   Todd Haynes
3. De humani corporis fabrica
   Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
5. Godland
   Hlynur Pálmason
6. Skinamarink
   Kyle Edward Ball
7. Asteroid City
   Wes Anderson
8. The Royal Hotel
   Kitty Green
9. The Killer
   David Fincher
10. Kokomo City
    D. Smith

Honorable Mentions (in no particular order)

• Showing Up
  Kelly Reichardt
• BlackBerry
  Matt Johnson
• Falcon Lake
  Charlotte Le Bon
• Reality
  Tina Satter
• Full Time
  Éric Gravel
• All of Us Strangers
  Andrew Haigh
• The Teachers' Lounge
  İlker Çatak
• Sick of Myself
  Kristoffer Borgli
• The Iron Claw
  Sean Durkin
• Perfect Days
  Wim Wenders
• Poor Things
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson