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
New York Times: A.O. Scott: Best Movies of 2021
Rolling Stone: Alan Sepinwall: 50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s
Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2021
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2021
Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
2019 Books
Esquire: The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019
27 September 2019
Esquire
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The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019
[see also
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2010s
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No Visible Bruises
What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
Rachel Louise Snyder
Three Women
Lisa Taddeo
Trick Mirror
Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino
Nobody's Victim
Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls
Carrie Goldberg
Savage Appetites
Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
Rachel Monroe
She Said
Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
Make It Scream, Make It Burn
Leslie Jamison
Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl
Jeannie Vanasco
In the Dream House
Carmen Maria Machado
The Witches Are Coming
Lindy West
For the Love of Men
A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity
Liz Plank
Formation
A Woman's Memoir of Stepping Out of Line
Ryan Leigh Dostie
I Like to Watch
Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
Emily Nussbaum
Shapes of Native Nonfiction
Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers
Elissa Washuta & Theresa Warburton (editors)
Because Internet
Understanding the New Rules of Language
Gretchen McCulloch
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
T Kira Madden
Biased
Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do
Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Working
Robert A. Caro
I Miss You When I Blink
Mary Laura Philpott
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
Michele Filgate (editor)
Rough Magic
Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
Lara Prior-Palmer