Year-End Lists
A browsable archive 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 York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2021
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2021
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2021
Mojo: The 75 Best Albums of 2021
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2021
2017 Books
A.V. Club: 24 Favorite Books of 2017
04 December 2017
The A.V. Club
:
24 Favorite Books of 2017
[see also
2020
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2018
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2015
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What We Lose
Zinzi Clemmons
The Book of Dust
La Belle Sauvage (Volume 1)
Philip Pullman
The Answers
Catherine Lacey
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
The Mother of All Questions
Rebecca Solnit
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
Homesick for Another World
Ottessa Moshfegh
Theft by Finding
Diaries (1977-2002)
David Sedaris
A Separation
Katie Kitamura
21st-Century Yokel
Tom Cox
Idaho
Emily Ruskovich
Imaginary Cities
A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between
Darran Anderson
The Unwomanly Face of War
An Oral History of Women in World War II
Svetlana Alexievich
Paperbacks from Hell
The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction
Grady Hendrix
Word by Word
The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Kory Stamper
Strange the Dreamer
Laini Taylor
Out in the Open
Jesús Carrasco
Sour Heart
Jenny Zhang
The Last Days of Café Leila
Donia Bijan
Vacationland
True Stories from Painful Beaches
John Hodgman
Flâneuse
Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
Lauren Elkin
Why I Am Not A Feminist
A Feminist Manifesto
Jessa Crispin
300 Arguments
Sarah Manguso
Turtles All the Way Down
John Green
