Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
New Yorker: Richard Brody: The Best Movies of 2023
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2023
Economist: The Best Books of 2023
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2023
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
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2010s Books
Paste: The 40 Best Novels of the 2010s
15 October 2019
Paste Magazine
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The 40 Best Novels of the 2010s
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Circe
Madeline Miller
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi
Fates and Furies
Lauren Groff
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Swamplandia!
Karen Russell
The Fifth Season
N.K. Jemisin
The Leavers
Lisa Ko
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
Wolf in White Van
John Darnielle
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
Family Life
Akhil Sharma
Swing Time
Zadie Smith
The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
The Destroyers
Christopher Bollen
Boy, Snow, Bird
Helen Oyeyemi
The Lesser Bohemians
Eimear McBride
Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh
The Poppy War
R.F. Kuang
Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Incendiaries
R.O. Kwon
Bowlaway
Elizabeth McCracken
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Hank Green
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
Hannah Tinti
What Belongs to You
Garth Greenwell
Who Fears Death
Nnedi Okorafor
An Untamed State
Roxane Gay
The Martian
Andy Weir
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman
Sudden Death
Álvaro Enrigue. Translated by Natasha Wimmer
Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver