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
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2017
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2023
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2023
Economist: The Best Books of 2023
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2020 Books
O Magazine: 20 Best Books of 2020
19 November 2020
O, The Oprah Magazine
:
20 Best Books of 2020
[see also
2019
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2018
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2017
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African American Poetry
250 Years of Struggle & Song
Kevin Young (editor)
A Beautiful Crime
Christopher Bollen
The Boy in the Field
Margot Livesey
Caste
The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
The Cold Millions
Jess Walter
Deacon King Kong
James McBride
A Girl is A Body of Water
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar
To Be a Man
Nicole Krauss
Intimations
Zadie Smith
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V.E. Schwab
Just Us
An American Conversation
Claudia Rankine
Little Eyes
Samanta Schweblin
Luster
Raven Leilani
The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante
The Office of Historical Corrections
Danielle Evans
Plain Bad Heroines
Emily M. Danforth
Red Comet
The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Heather Clark
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Kawai Strong Washburn
What Are You Going Through
Sigrid Nunez