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
Sight & Sound Poll: Best Films of 2011
Sight & Sound Poll: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Ten Best Films of 2020
The Needle Drop: Tony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2021
New York Times: A.O. Scott: Best Movies of 2021
Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2019
2017 Books
Paste: 45 Best Books of 2017
14 December 2017
Paste Magazine
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45 Best Books of 2017
, listed as novels and nonfiction
[see also
2010s
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2018
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Novels
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
Hannah Tinti
The Leavers
Lisa Ko
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Home Fire
Kamila Shamsie
The Lucky Ones
Julianne Pachico
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
Oathbringer
Brandon Sanderson
Class
Francesco Pacifico
The Destroyers
Christopher Bollen
The Power
Naomi Alderman
Borne
Jeff VanderMeer
The River of Kings
Taylor Brown
The Golden Legend
Nadeem Aslam
The Stone Sky
N.K. Jemisin
The Thirst
Jo Nesbo
American War
Omar El Akkad
Ill Will
Dan Chaon
The Essex Serpent
Sarah Perry
Waking Gods
Sylvain Neuvel
What We Lose
Zinzi Clemmons
Universal Harvester
John Darnielle
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Nonfiction
Priestdaddy
Patricia Lockwood
The Cooking Gene
A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Michael Twitty
The Future Is History
How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Masha Gessen
We Were Eight Years in Power
An American Tragedy
Ta-Nehisi Coates
A Disappearance in Damascus
Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War
Deborah Campbell
How to Murder Your Life
Cat Marnell
Grown-Up Anger
The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and the Calumet Massacre of 1913
Daniel Wolff
The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B. Tyson
Meet Me in the Bathroom
Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
Lizzy Goodman
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif Abdurraqib
Hunger
A Memoir of (My) Body
Roxane Gay
Sunshine State
Sarah Gerard
The Fear Factor
How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between
Abigail Marsh
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
Scaachi Koul
The Potlikker Papers
A Food History of the Modern South
John T. Edge
Otis Redding
An Unfinished Life
Jonathan Gould
Nasty Women
Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America
Edited by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding
The Vanity Fair Diaries
1983 – 1992
Tina Brown
Crash Override
How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
Zoe Quinn