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
The Needle Drop: Tony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2021
New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich: Ten Best Albums of 2018
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of the Decade 2010-2019
Economist: The Best Books of 2021
Esquire: The 50 Best Books of 2021
2016 Poetry
Chicago Review of Books: 12 Best Poetry Books of 2016
21 January 2017
Chicago Review of Books
:
12 Best Poetry Books of 2016
[see also
2018
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2017
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Thief in the Interior
Phillip B. Williams
Poems
New and Selected
Ron Rash
Ghost County
John McCarthy
Popular Music
Kelly Schirmann
Night-Sky Checkerboard
Oh Sae-young
The Black Maria
Aracelis Girmay
1989, The Number
Kevin Coval and Nate Marshall
The Secret Birds
Tony Fitzpatrick
child in a winter house brightening
Abigail Zimmer
Unbearable Splendor
Sun Yung Shin
Meditations of a Beast
Kristine Ong Muslim
Cattle of the Lord
Rosa Alice Branco