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
Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2023
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan: Top 10 Books of 2023
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2023
Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
more...
2021 Books
Oprah Daily: 20 Favorite Books of 2021
14 November 2021
Oprah Daily
:
20 Favorite Books of 2021
[see also
2023
•
2022
]
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
The Man Who Lived Underground
Richard Wright
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
On Freedom
Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Maggie Nelson
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead
Putting It Together
How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George"
James Lapine
The Sweetness of Water
Nathan Harris
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles
New York, My Village
Uwem Akpan
Infinite Country
Patricia Engel
Crossroads
Jonathan Franzen
Bewilderment
Richard Powers
Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Mariana Enriquez
Mrs. March
Virginia Feito
Intimacies
Katie Kitamura
These Precious Days
Ann Patchett
The Sentence
Louise Erdrich
Major Labels
A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres
Kelefa Sanneh
On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed