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
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2023
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2017
RogerEbert.com: The Ten Best Films of 2023
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2023
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
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2017 Books
Book Riot: Best Books of 2017
05 January 2018
Book Riot
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Best Books of 2017
A Conjuring of Light
V.E. Schwab
All Grown Up
Jami Attenberg
An Extraordinary Union
Alyssa Cole
Bluebird, Bluebird
Attica Locke
Don’t Call Us Dead
Danez Smith
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
Hate to Want You
Alisha Rai
Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado
Hunger
A Memoir of (My) Body
Roxane Gay
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Emil Ferris
One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
Scaachi Koul
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Priestdaddy
Patricia Lockwood
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
The Changeling
Victor LaValle
The Fact of a Body
A Murder and a Memoir
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
The Gauntlet
Karuna Riazi
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue
Mackenzi Lee
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
The Prey of Gods
Nicky Drayden
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Wanderers
Meg Howrey
We Are Okay
Nina LaCour
We Were Eight Years in Power
An American Tragedy
Ta-Nehisi Coates
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
Lesley Nneka Arimah
When Dimple Met Rishi
Sandhya Menon
White Tears
Hari Kunzru
You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
Sherman Alexie