Year-End Lists

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

• TBA

Longlist

• Wandering Stars
  Tommy Orange
• Wild Houses
  Colin Barrett
• Held
  Anne Michaels
• Creation Lake
  Rachel Kushner
• This Strange Eventful History
  Claire Messud
• Playground
  Richard Powers
• Enlightenment
  Sarah Perry
• Orbital
  Samantha Harvey
• James
  Percival Everett
• The Safekeep
  Yael van der Wouden
• My Friends
  Hisham Matar
• Stone Yard Devotional
  Charlotte Wood
• 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

Reverse Shot: Best Films of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. May December
   Todd Haynes
2. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
3. Showing Up
   Kelly Reichardt
4. Our Body
   Claire Simon
5. Fallen Leaves
   Aki Kaurismäki
6. Trenque Lauquen
   Laura Citarella
7. Asteroid City
   Wes Anderson
8. All of Us Strangers
   Andrew Haigh
8. Pacifiction
   Albert Serra
9. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
10. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
    Raven Jackson

Sean Fennessey: Best Movies of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2010s]

1. Killers of the Flower Moon
   Martin Scorsese
2. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
   Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
3. Oppenheimer
   Christopher Nolan
4. May December
   Todd Haynes
5. The Taste of Things
   Trần Anh Hùng
6. The Zone of Interest
   Jonathan Glazer
7. The Killer
   David Fincher
8. Asteroid City
   Wes Anderson
9. John Wick: Chapter 4
   Chad Stahelski
10. Anatomy of a Fall
    Justine Triet
11. Beau Is Afraid
    Ari Aster
12. The Iron Claw
    Sean Durkin
13. Past Lives
    Celine Song
14. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
    Daniel Goldhaber
15. Showing Up
    Kelly Reichardt
16. Ferrari
    Michael Mann
17. Poor Things
    Yorgos Lanthimos
18. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
    Christopher McQuarrie
19. The Boy and the Heron
    Hayao Miyazaki
20. Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
    Beyoncé
21. R.M.N.
    Cristian Mungiu
22. BlackBerry
    Matt Johnson
23. Priscilla
    Sofia Coppola
24. Passages
    Ira Sachs
25. The Holdovers
    Alexander Payne
26. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
    Kelly Fremon Craig
27. Godzilla Minus One
    Takashi Yamazaki
28. Talk to Me
    Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou
29. Maestro
    Bradley Cooper
30. Dream Scenario
    Kristoffer Borgli
31. Master Gardener
    Paul Schrader
32. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
    William Friedkin
33. All of Us Strangers
    Andrew Haigh
34. Leave the World Behind
    Sam Esmail
35. Godland
    Hlynur Pálmason
36. American Fiction
    Cord Jefferson
37. Perfect Days
    Wim Wenders
38. A Thousand and One
    A.V. Rockwell
39. You Hurt My Feelings
    Nicole Holofcener
40. Barbie
    Greta Gerwig
41. Napoleon
    Ridley Scott
42. Afire
    Christian Petzold
43. Air
    Ben Affleck
44. Pacifiction
    Albert Serra
45. The Royal Hotel
    Kitty Green
46. They Cloned Tyrone
    Juel Taylor
47. Fallen Leaves
    Aki Kaurismäki
48. The Artifice Girl
    Franklin Ritch
49. The Quiet Girl
    Colm Bairéad
50. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
    James Gunn
51. Sick
    John Hyams
52. When Evil Lurks
    Demián Rugna
53. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
    Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley
54. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
    Jeff Rowe
55. Creed III
    Michael B. Jordan
56. 20 Days in Mariupol
    Mstyslav Chernov
57. Bottoms
    Emma Seligman
58. Evil Dead Rise
    Lee Cronin
59. The Covenant
    Guy Ritchie
60. Sick of Myself
    Kristoffer Borgli
61. Thanksgiving
    Eli Roth
62. Infinity Pool
    Brandon Cronenberg
63. Dreamin' Wild
    Bill Pohlad
64. Fair Play
    Chloe Domont
65. Knock at the Cabin
    M. Night Shyamalan
66. The Pigeon Tunnel
    Errol Morris
67. The Equalizer 3
    Antoine Fuqua
68. Rye Lane
    Raine Allen-Miller
69. No Hard Feelings
    Gene Stupnitsky
70. Fremont
    Babak Jalali
71. The Civil Dead
    Clay Tatum
72. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
    Wes Anderson
73. The Burial
    Maggie Betts
74. Palm Trees and Power Lines
    Jamie Dack
75. Suzume
    Makoto Shinkai
76. Beyond Utopia
    Madeleine Gavin
77. Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
    Davis Guggenheim
78. Memory
    Michel Franco
79. No One Will Save You
    Brian Duffield
80. Unrest
    Cyril Schäublin
81. Personality Crisis: One Night Only
    Martin Scorsese & David Tedeschi
82. Scream VI
    Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett
83. El Conde
    Pablo Larraín
84. Alcarràs
    Carla Simón
85. The Disappearance of Shere Hite
    Nicole Newnham
86. Society of the Snow
    J.A. Bayona
87. Earth Mama
    Savanah Leaf
88. M3GAN
    Gerard Johnstone
89. Birth/Rebirth
    Laura Moss
90. Eileen
    William Oldroyd
91. Albert Brooks: Defending My Life
    Rob Reiner
92. The Five Devils
    Léa Mysius
93. The Sweet East
    Sean Price Williams
94. Sanctuary
    Zachary Wigon
95. Theater Camp
    Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman
96. Divinity
    Eddie Alcazar
97. Kokomo City
    D. Smith
98. Joy Ride
    Adele Lim
99. Magic Mike’s Last Dance
    Steven Soderbergh
100. Skinamarink
     Kyle Edward Ball

Clémence Polès: Top Ten Films of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2019]

• Perfect Days
  Wim Wenders
• Four Daughters
  Kaouther Ben Hania
• Kokomo City
  D. Smith
• Menus-plaisirs - Les Troisgros
  Frederick Wiseman
• The Zone of Interest
  Jonathan Glazer
• Rotting in the Sun
  Sebastián Silva
• Coconut Head Generation
  Alain Kassanda
• The Green Border
  Agnieszka Holland
• Pictures of Ghosts
  Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Bottoms
  Emma Seligman

Notable mentions

• How to Have Sex
  Molly Manning Walker
• Beau Is Afraid
  Ari Aster
• Youth (Spring)
  Wang Bing

Clémence Polès: Top Ten Albums of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2019 • 2018]

• Erotic Probiotic 2
  Nourished By Time
• Raven
  Kelela
• New Blue Sun
  André 3000
• Se Ve Desde Aquí
  Mabe Fratti
• Suite TWO
  Dreamcrusher
• Good Living Is Coming For You
  Sweeping Promises
• trip9love...???
  Tirzah
• Blooming
  Donna Candy
• Good Lies
  Overmono
• Girl with Fish
  Feeble Little Horse

Notable mentions

• Inland Delta
  Biosphere
• A time to love, a time to die
  Amor Muere
• This Stupid World
  Yo La Tengo
• Swampy
  Dry Cleaning
• Anonym
  Tolerance
• No Soul, No God, No Devil, No Existence
  Hajj
• For Anyone That Knows You
  Josiah Steinbrick
• Κλίμα (Klima)
  Christina Vantzou & John Also Bennett
• love & vex
  ytboutthataction
• 绿帽 Green Hat
  Tzusing
• April Mixtape 3
  Snow Strippers
• Flow 流れ
  David Edren & H.Takahashi

Nicole Brenez: Best Films of 2023, as submitted to La Internacional Cinéfila Poll, in priority order

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2012]

• Henry Fonda for President
  Alexander Horwath
• Of Conquest
  Françoise Prenant
• Boï
  Lucien Pin
• PIER 34, New York, Summer 83
  Marion Scemama
• Christophe définitivement
  Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ange Leccia

This list contributes to:

• La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Movies of 2023