Year-End Lists
A browsable archive 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
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2021
Tiny Mix Tapes: 50 Favorite Music Releases of 2017
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2018
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2021
Cinema Scope: Top 10 Films of 2014
2021 Books
Barack Obama: Favorite Books of 2021
17 December 2021
Barack Obama
:
Favorite Books of 2021
, as posted to Twitter
[see also
2020
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2019
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2018
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Matrix
Lauren Groff
How the Word Is Passed
A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Clint Smith
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Dawnie Walton
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
Invisible Child
Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
Andrea Elliott
Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
These Precious Days
Ann Patchett
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
Aftershocks
Nadia Owusu
Crossroads
Jonathan Franzen
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Beautiful Country
Qian Julie Wang
Books I Recommended Earlier This Year
At Night All Blood Is Black
David Diop
Land of Big Numbers
Te-Ping Chen
Empire of Pain
The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamin Labatut
Under a White Sky
The Nature of the Future
Elizabeth Kolbert
Things We Lost to the Water
Eric Nguyen
Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Sweetness of Water
Nathan Harris
Intimacies
Katie Kitamura