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.
2020
Movies
TV Shows
Albums
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
2010s
Movies
TV Shows
Albums
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
2019
Movies
TV Shows
Albums
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
2018 Books
Paste: Best Books of 2018
13 December 2018
Paste Magazine
: Best Books of 2018,
Novels
and
Nonfiction
[see also
2010s
,
2017
]
Novels
Circe
Madeline Miller
The Incendiaries
R.O. Kwon
The Poppy War
R.F. Kuang
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Hank Green
Warlight
Michael Ondaatje
Crudo
Olivia Laing
All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother
Danielle Teller
Girls Burn Brighter
Shobha Rao
The Friend
Sigrid Nunez
Melmoth
Sarah Perry
Southernmost
Silas House
The Calculating Stars
Mary Robinette Kowal
Nonfiction
Educated
Tara Westover
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
Rachel Slade
Fisherman's Blues: A West African Community at Sea
Anna Badkhen
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
Beastie Boys Book
Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz
Feel Free
Zadie Smith
All You Can Ever Know
Nicole Chung
When They Go Low, We Go High: Speeches That Shape the World - and Why We Need Them
Philip Collins
The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Michiko Kakutani
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
Zora Neale Hurston
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
Alexander Chee
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
Roxane Gay (editor)
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
Mark Dery
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Michelle McNamara
How Democracies Die
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt