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
Artforum: John Waters: Best Films of 2022
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
Sean Fennessey: Best Movies of 2023
Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2023
Economist: The Best Books of 2023
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2021 Books
BuzzFeed: The Best Books Of 2021
13 December 2021
BuzzFeed
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The Best Books Of 2021
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2022
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2010s
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2019
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2018
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Fiction
Afterparties
Anthony Veasna So
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
The Archer
Shruti Swamy
What Strange Paradise
Omar El Akkad
The Prophets
Robert Jones Jr.
No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood
Somebody Loves You
Mona Arshi
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
The Lost Apothecary
Sarah Penner
The Sentence
Louise Erdrich
The Committed
Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Wrong End of the Telescope
Rabih Alameddine
Fight Night
Miriam Toews
Nonfiction
Things I Have Withheld
Kei Miller
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
Empire of Pain
The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe
What Doesn't Kill You
A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt
Tessa Miller
A Little Devil in America
Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib
Seek You
A Journey Through American Loneliness
Kristen Radtke
One Friday in April
A Story of Suicide and Survival
Donald Antrim
Three Girls from Bronzeville
A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
Dawn Turner
Concepcion
An Immigrant Family's Fortunes
Albert Samaha
