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
Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2021
Economist: The Best Books of 2021
Guardian: Mark Kermode: 10 Best Films of 2020
The Needle Drop: Tony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2021
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of the Decade 2010-2019
2019 Books
Book Riot: Best Books of 2019 So Far
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Best Books of 2019 So Far
American Fairytale
Adriana Herrera
American Spy
Lauren Wilkinson
Brute
Emily Skaja
Daisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Disappearing Earth
Julia Phillips
Flowers of Mold
Ha Seong-nan
Good Talk
A Memoir in Conversations
Mira Jacob
Here and Now and Then
Mike Chen
Internment
Samira Ahmed
Jokes for the Gunmen
Mazen Maarouf
Kid Gloves
Nine Months of Careful Chaos
Lucy Knisley
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
T Kira Madden
Love from A to Z
S.K. Ali
Magic for Liars
Sarah Gailey
Maiden & Princess
Daniel Haack & Isabel Galupo
Miracle Creek
Angie Kim
Naamah
Sarah Blake
No Happy Endings
Nora McInerny
No Visible Bruises
What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
Rachel Louise Snyder
Normal People
Sally Rooney
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
Once & Future
Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy
Once More We Saw Stars
Jayson Greene
Recursion
Blake Crouch
Red, White & Royal Blue
Casey McQuiston
Reverb
Anna Zabo
Save Me the Plums
My Gourmet Memoir
Ruth Reichl
Silver in the Wood
Emily Tesh
Somewhere Only We Know
Maurene Goo
Stony the Road
Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon
Mary Fan
The Afterward
E.K. Johnston
The Bride Test
Helen Hoang
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
Anissa Gray
The Collected Schizophrenias
Esmé Weijun Wang
The Everlasting Rose
Dhonielle Clayton
The Five
The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Hallie Rubenhold
The Last
Hanna Jameson
The Outside
Ada Hoffmann
The Things She's Seen
Ambelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina
The Weight of Our Sky
Hanna Alkaf
To Night Owl From Dogfish
Holly Goldberg Sloan & Meg Wolitzer
We Hunt the Flame
Hafsah Faizal