Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2024
Gorilla vs. Bear: Albums of 2024
Time: Stephanie Zacharek: The 10 Best Movies of 2024
more...
2016 Books
Maria Popova: 16 Favorite Books of 2016
22 December 2016
Maria Popova
:
16 Favorite Books of 2016
[see also
2018
•
2015
]
The Lonely City
Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Olivia Laing
Hope in the Dark
Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Rebecca Solnit
Upstream
Selected Essays
Mary Oliver
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space
Janna Levin
Time Travel
A History
James Gleick
The View from the Cheap Seats
Selected Nonfiction
Neil Gaiman
Hold Still
A Memoir with Photographs
Sally Mann
Anger and Forgiveness
Resentment, Generosity, Justice
Martha C. Nussbaum
Unforbidden Pleasures
Rethinking Authority, Power, and Vitality
Adam Phillips
The Course of Love
A Novel
Alain de Botton
The Gutsy Girl
Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure
Caroline Paul
Hidden Figures
The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Margot Lee Shetterly
Becoming Wise
An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Krista Tippett
The Abundance
Narrative Essays Old and New
Annie Dillard
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Pinocchio
The Origin Story
Alessandro Sanna