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
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2023
La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Best Films of 2022
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2023
Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
more...
2018 Books
Paste: Best Books of 2018
13 December 2018
Paste Magazine
: Best Books of 2018,
Novels
and
Nonfiction
[see also
2023
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2022
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2010s
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2017
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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