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.
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Highlights
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2023
Economist: The Best Books of 2023
The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2022
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Best Films of 2022
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2017 Books
Brooklyn Rail: Joseph Salvatore: Best 50 Books of 2017
09 January 2018
Joseph Salvatore
:
Best 50 Books of 2017
, as published by
The Brooklyn Rail
Nonfiction
China Lake
A Journey into the Contradicted Heart of a Global Climate Catastrophe
Barret Baumgart
The Best We Could Do
An Illustrated Memoir
Thi Bui
Cornell ’77
The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead’s Concert at Barton Hall
Peter Conners
Je Suis L’Autre
Essays & Interrogations
Kristina Marie Darling
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Dan Egan
The Doubles
Scott Esposito
Do I Make Myself Clear?
Why Writing Well Matters
Harold Evans
Abandon Me
Melissa Febos
World Without Mind
The Existential Threat of Big Tech
Franklin Foer
Shirley Jackson
A Rather Haunted Life
Ruth Franklin
Hunger
A Memoir of (My) Body
Roxane Gay
Sunshine State
Sarah Gerard
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
Knowing Knott
Essays on an American Poet
Edited by Steven Huff
Question Like a Face
Christine Hume and Jeff Clark
Literary Witches
A Celebration of Magical Women Writers
Taisia Kitaiskaia
After Kathy Acker
Chris Kraus
Tell Me How It Ends
An Essay in 40 Questions
Valeria Luiselli
Draft No. 4
On the Writing Process
John McPhee
After the Eclipse
A Mother’s Murder, a Daughter’s Search
Sarah Perry
The Mother of All Questions
Rebecca Solnit
The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B. Tyson
Among the Living and the Dead
A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe
Inara Verzemnieks
The Show That Never Ends
The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock
David Weigel
Fiction
The Power
Naomi Alderman
The Hunger Saint
Olivia Kate Cerrone
So Many Olympic Exertions
Anelise Chen
American War
Omar El Akkad
Future Home of the Living God
Louise Erdrich
The Gypsy Moth Summer
Julia Fierro
The Iliac Crest
Cristina Rivera Garza
The Epiphany Machine
David Burr Gerrard
The Gargoyle Hunters
John Freeman Gill
Bad Dreams and Other Stories
Tessa Hadley
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
A Separation
Katie Kitamura
The Leavers
Lisa Ko
Stranger, Father, Beloved
Taylor Larsen
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Dear Cyborgs
Eugene Lim
Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado
The Ninth Hour
Alice McDermott
My Heart Hemmed In
Marie NDiaye
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
The Standard Grand
Jay Baron Nicorvo
Heritage of Smoke
Josip Novakovich
Refrigerated Music for a Gleaming Woman
Aimee Parkison
Wait Till You See Me Dance
Deb Olin Unferth
Sour Heart
Jenny Zhang