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: Sarah Larson: The Best Podcasts of 2023
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2023
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
Film Comment Poll: Best Films of 2022
Film Comment Poll: Best Films of 2023
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2016 Books
Boston Globe: John Freeman: 15 Best Fiction Books of 2016
02 January 2017
John Freeman
:
15 Best Fiction Books of 2016
, as published by
The Boston Globe
[see also
2017
]
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Ema the Captive
César Aira
LaRose
Louise Erdrich
In the Café of Lost Youth
Patrick Modiano
Barkskins
Annie Proulx
The Queen of the Night
Alexander Chee
The Fox Was Ever the Hunter
Herta Müller
The Year of the Runaways
Sunjeev Sahota
My Name Is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout
The Good Lieutenant
Whitney Terrell
Thus Bad Begins
Javier Marias
Zero K
Don DeLillo
Our Young Man
Edmund White
The Story of a Brief Marriage
Anuk Arudpragasam
Secondhand Time
The Last of the Soviets
Svetlana Alexievich