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
Mojo: 75 Best Albums of 2023
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2023
Economist: The Best Books of 2023
Quietus: Albums of the Year 2023
more...
2012 Books
Atlantic: Benjamin Schwarz: Top 15 Books of 2012
20 December 2012
Benjamin Schwarz
:
Top 15 Books of 2012
, as published by
The Atlantic
[see also
2011
]
The Great Sea
David Abulafia
Time’s Shadow
Arnold J. Bauer
Good Behaviour
Molly Keane
Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
Moscow, 1937
Karl Schlögel
The Runners Up
What They Do in the Dark
A Novel
Amanda Coe
The Book of Common Prayer
The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662
Brian Cummings (editor)
Orderly and Humane
The Expulsion of Germans After the Second World War
R.M. Douglas
Fairness and Freedom
A History of Two Open Societies, New Zealand and the United States
David Hackett Fischer
The Road to Ruins
Ian Graham
Evening’s Empire
A History of Night in Early Modern Europe
Craig Koslofsky
Dear Life
Alice Munro
Sir Walter Raleigh
Mark Nicholls and Penry Williams
Masters of the Planet
The Search for Our Human Origins
Ian Tattersall
The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 6
1933-1941
Virginia Woolf, edited by Stuart N. Clarke