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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Atlantic: The Best Books of 2023
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2023
Economist: The Best Books of 2023
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
Quietus: Albums of the Year 2023
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2019 Books
Hyperallergic: Top 25 Books of 2019
13 December 2019
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Top 25 Books of 2019
Potential History
Unlearning Imperialism
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Saidiya Hartman
Memes to Movements
How the World's Most Viral Media Is Changing Social Protest and Power
An Xiao Mina
Boom
Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
Michael Shnayerson
C.R.E.A.M.
Sable Elyse Smith
Sun Seekers
The Cure of California
Lyra Kilston
The New Black Vanguard
Photography Between Art and Fashion
Antwaun Sargent
Making Comics
Lynda Barry
Life With Picasso
François Gilot and Carlton Lake
Parks
United States National Park Service Maps from the Collection of Brian Kelley
Brian Kelley
Becoming Mary Sully
Toward an American Indian Abstract
Philip J. Deloria
The Canary and The Hammer
Lisa Barnard
Optic Nerve
Maria Gainza
An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels
Josh MacPhee
The Hard Tomorrow
Eleanor Davis
Temple of Silence
The Forgotten Works of Herbert Crowley
Justin Duerr
BTTM FDRS
Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore
Year of the Monkey
Patti Smith
The Missing Pages
The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice
Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh
Good Talk
A Memoir in Conversations
Mira Jacob
Hot Comb
Ebony Flowers
Hinge Pictures
Eight Women Artists Occupy the Third Dimension
Andrea Andersson
Supper Club
Lara Williams
Changes
Notes on Choreography
Merce Cunningham
Out of Bounds
The Collected Writings of Marcia Tucker
Marcia Tucker
