Year-End Lists

Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2024

[see also Fiction 2024 • Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• TBA

Finalists

• The Achilles Trap

  Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
  Steve Coll
• Feeding Ghosts

  A Graphic Memoir
  Tessa Hulls
• Undue Burden

  Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
  Shefali Luthra
• Challenger

  A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
  Adam Higginbotham
• The Garden Against Time

  In Search of a Common Paradise
  Olivia Laing
• Another Word for Love

  A Memoir
  Carvell Wallace

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2024

[see also Nonfiction 2024 • Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• TBA

Finalists

• Say Hello to My Little Friend
  Jennine Capó Crucet
• James
  Percival Everett
• Playground
  Richard Powers
• The Mighty Red
  Louise Erdrich
• Prophet Song
  Paul Lynch
• Margo's Got Money Troubles
  Rufi Thorpe

National Book Award: Poetry 2024

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2013]

Winner

• TBA

Finalists

• Wrong Norma
  Anne Carson
• […]
  Fady Joudah
• Mother
  m.s. RedCherries
• Modern Poetry
  Diane Seuss
• Something about Living
  Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Longlist

• Life on Earth
  Dorianne Laux
• Spectral Evidence
  Gregory Pardlo
• Silver
  Rowan Ricardo Phillips
• The Book of Wounded Sparrows
  Octavio Quintanilla
• Liontaming in America
  Elizabeth Willis

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2024

[see also Fiction 2024 • Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2013 • Nonfiction 2013]

Winner

• TBA

Finalists

• Soldiers and Kings

  Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
  Jason De León
• Circle of Hope

  A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
  Eliza Griswold
• Unshrinking

  How to Face Fatphobia
  Kate Manne
• Knife

  Meditations After an Attempted Murder
  Salman Rushdie
• Whiskey Tender

  A Memoir
  Deborah Jackson Taffa

Longlist

• There's Always This Year

  On Basketball and Ascension
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• Our Moon

  How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
  Rebecca Boyle
• The War Below

  Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
  Ernest Scheyder
• A Great Disorder

  National Myth and the Battle for America
  Richard Slotkin
• Magical/Realism

  Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
  Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

National Book Award: Fiction 2024

[see also Nonfiction 2024 • Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2013 • Nonfiction 2013]

Winner

• TBA

Finalists

• Ghostroots
  'Pemi Aguda
• Martyr!
  Kaveh Akbar
• James
  Percival Everett
• All Fours
  Miranda July
• My Friends
  Hisham Matar

Longlist

• The Most
  Jessica Anthony
• Catalina
  Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• Creation Lake
  Rachel Kushner
• Yr Dead
  Sam Sax
• Rejection
  Tony Tulathimutte

The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2024

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

Winner

• TBA

Shortlist

• Held
  Anne Michaels
• Creation Lake
  Rachel Kushner
• Orbital
  Samantha Harvey
• James
  Percival Everett
• The Safekeep
  Yael van der Wouden
• Stone Yard Devotional
  Charlotte Wood

Longlist

• Wandering Stars
  Tommy Orange
• Wild Houses
  Colin Barrett
• This Strange Eventful History
  Claire Messud
• Playground
  Richard Powers
• Enlightenment
  Sarah Perry
• My Friends
  Hisham Matar
• Headshot
  Rita Bullwinkel

Women's Prize: Best Fiction of 2024

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2024 • Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Fiction of 2022 • Best Fiction of 2021 • Best Fiction of 2020 • Best Fiction of 2019 • Best Fiction of 2018 • Best Fiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2016 • Best Fiction of 2015 • Best Fiction of 2014 • Best Fiction of 2013 • Best Fiction of 2012 • Best Fiction of 2011]

Winner

• Brotherless Night
  V.V. Ganeshananthan

Shortlist

• Restless Dolly Maunder
  Kate Grenville
• River East, River West
  Aube Rey Lescure
• Soldier Sailor
  Claire Kilroy
• Enter Ghost
  Isabella Hammad
• The Wren, the Wren
  Anne Enright

Longlist

• Western Lane
  Chetna Maroo
• 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
  Mirinae Lee
• And Then She Fell
  Alicia Elliott
• Hangman
  Maya Binyam
• In Defence of the Act
  Effie Black
• The Blue, Beautiful World
  Karen Lord
• The Maiden
  Kate Foster
• Ordinary Human Failings
  Megan Nolan
• A Trace of Sun
  Pam Williams
• Nightbloom
  Peace Adzo Medie

Women's Prize: Best Nonfiction of 2024, the first nonfiction prize awarded by this group, after years of awarding a highly regarded fiction prize

[see also Best Fiction of 2024 • Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Fiction of 2022 • Best Fiction of 2021 • Best Fiction of 2020 • Best Fiction of 2019 • Best Fiction of 2018 • Best Fiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2016 • Best Fiction of 2015 • Best Fiction of 2014 • Best Fiction of 2013 • Best Fiction of 2012 • Best Fiction of 2011]

Winner

• Doppelganger

  A Trip into the Mirror World
  Naomi Klein

Shortlist

• All That She Carried

  The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
  Tiya Miles
• Code Dependent

  Living in the Shadow of AI
  Madhumita Murgia
• A Flat Place

  Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
  Noreen Masud
• Thunderclap

  A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
  Laura Cumming
• How to Say Babylon

  A Memoir
  Safiya Sinclair

Longlist

• Intervals
  Marianne Brooker
• Wifedom

  Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
  Anna Funder
• Shadows at Noon

  The South Asian Twentieth Century
  Joya Chatterji
• Eve

  How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
  Cat Bohannon
• Some People Need Killing

  A Memoir of Murder in My Country
  Patricia Evangelista
• The Dictionary People

  The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
  Sarah Ogilvie
• Vulture Capitalism

  Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
  Grace Blakeley
• Young Queens

  Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
  Leah Redmond Chang
• The Britannias

  An Archipelago's Tale
  Alice Albinia
• Matrescence

  On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood
  Lucy Jones

Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2012]

1. Guts
   Olivia Rodrigo
2. Super Dope
   Buck 65
3. If My Wife New I'd Be Dead
   CMAT
4. Workin' on a World
   Iris DeMent
5. Savoy
   Taj Mahal
6. the record
   boygenius
7. serious person (part 1)
   corook
8. Zach Bryan
   Zach Bryan
9. Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent
   Lewis Capaldi
10. The Candle And The Flame
    Robert Forster
11. I Play My Bass Loud
    Gina Birch
12. Rustin' In The Rain
    Tyler Childers
13. Some Kinda Love: Performing the Music of the Velvet Underground
    The Feelies
14. Rockstar
    Dolly Parton
15. Several Songs About Fire
    A. Savage
16. The Devil I Know
    Ashley McBryde
17. Bring The Kids
    Hamell On Trial
18. Music Inferno: The Indestructible Beat Tour 1988-89
    Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens
19. 10,000 gecs
    100 gecs
20. How to Love
    Withered Hand
21. Overground
    Tyvek
22. Rat Saw God
    Wednesday
23. Rabbit Rabbit
    Speedy Ortiz
24. I Love You
    Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers
25. Loving You
    Amanda Shires & Bobbie Nelson
26. Lucky
    Megan Moroney
27. Viable
    The Human Hearts
28. Blue Rev
    Alvvays
29. 1988
    Lori McKenna
30. Pet Rent
    Jinx lennon
31. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
32. Grand Salami TIme!
    The Baseball Project
33. best of corook (so far)
    corook
34. Real Life Human Garbage
    Girl Scout
35. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
36. Quaranta
    Danny Brown
37. Balka Sound
    Balka Sound
38. Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart
    Lucinda Williams
39. Punk Rock B-Boy
    Buck 65
40. The Crosswinds of Kansas
    Bill Scorzari
41. East African Hits On The Colombian Coast
    Piconema
42. Seriana Promethea
    David Murray, Brad Jones, & Hamid Drake
43. The Chicago Sessions
    Rodney Crowell
44. Action Adventure
    DJ Shadow
45. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
46. Origin Story: 1994-1999
    The Moldy Peaches
47. Like..?
    Ice Spice
48. Back Home
    Big Joanie
49. Psychopath
    Morgan Wade
50. Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall
    Nia Archives
51. I Don't Know A Thing About Love
    Willie Nelson
52. America: The Rough Cut
    Allen Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra
53. Being
    Baaba Maal
54. Sahel
    Bombino
55. Brandy Clark
    Brandy Clark
56. Crazymad, for Me
    CMAT
57. Come Get Your Wife
    Elle King
58. Asides & B-Sides (2014-2018)
    Jeffrey Lewis
59. L'Orchestre National Mauritanien
    Ahl Nana
60. Antologia Vol. 1
    África Negra
61. Shook
    Algiers
62. The Age of Pleasure
    Janelle Monáe
63. Fountain Baby
    Amaarae
64. Breaking the Balls of History
    Quasi
65. Nwanne Bu Ife
    Azuka Moweta and His Anioma Brothers Band of Africa
66. Religiously. The Album.
    Bailey Zimmerman
67. Spunky!
    Grrrl Gang
68. Tracey Denim
    Bar Italia
69. Pink Friday 2
    Nicki Minaj
70. Chai
    Chai
71. Caveman
    Gurf Morlix
72. Tha Fix Before Tha VI
    Lil Wayne
73. Happy Hearts
    Jad Fair and Samuel Locke Ward
74. Nymph
    Shygirl
75. Vision Board
    Lyrics Born
76. Blondshell
    Blondshell
77. Velveteen
    PONY
78. Art Dealers
    Low Cut Connie
79. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
80. Take me home
    PinkPantheress
81. Surrender
    Maggie Rogers
82. going...going...GONE!
    Hemlocke Springs
83. Boys of Faith
    Zach Bryan
84. Music From This American Life
    Stephen Ulrich

Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2023, as discussed on Kermode and Mayo's Take

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

1. Past Lives
   Celine Song
2. Anatomy of a Fall
   Justine Triet
3. Enys Men
   Mark Jenkin
4. Return to Seoul
   Davy Chou
5. One Fine Morning
   Mia Hansen-Løve

Also Absolutely Brilliant

• Polite Society
  Nida Manzoor
• How to Blow Up a Pipeline
  Daniel Goldhaber
• The Beasts
  Rodrigo Sorogoyen
• Pearl
  Ti West
• Close
  Lukas Dhont
• Broker
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Blue Jean
  Georgia Oakley
• EO
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• May December
  Todd Haynes
• Beau Is Afraid
  Ari Aster
• Infinity Pool
  Brandon Cronenberg
• Rye Lane
  Raine Allen-Miller
• Reality
  Tina Satter
• Talk to Me
  Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou
• How to Have Sex
  Molly Manning Walker
• Scrapper
  Charlotte Regan
• Dream Scenario
  Kristoffer Borgli
• Saltburn
  Emerald Fennell
• Bottoms
  Emma Seligman
• Eileen
  William Oldroyd
• Saint Omer
  Alice Diop
• Women Talking
  Sarah Polley

Documentaries

• The Automat
  Lisa Hurwitz
• In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50
  Toby Amies
• Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
  Davis Guggenheim

Blockbusters

• Godzilla Minus One
  Takashi Yamazaki
• The Creator
  Gareth Edwards
• Barbie
  Greta Gerwig
• Oppenheimer
  Christopher Nolan
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
  Christopher McQuarrie
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
• John Wick: Chapter 4
  Chad Stahelski

Coming to the UK in 2024

• Poor Things
  Yorgos Lanthimos
• The Zone of Interest
  Jonathan Glazer
• The Holdovers
  Alexander Payne