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 2023
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
Observer: Mark Kermode: 10 Best Films of 2022
Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2023
The Ringer: Sean Fennessey: The Best Movies of 2021
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2021 Books
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Patrick Rapa: The Best Books of 2021
06 December 2021
Patrick Rapa
:
The Best Books of 2021
, as published by
The Philadelphia Inquirer
[see also
2022
]
Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing
Lauren Hough
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones
No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood
A Little Devil in America
Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
Appleseed
Matt Bell
Hell of a Book
Jason Mott
Land of Big Numbers
Te-Ping Chen
A Touch of Jen
Beth Morgan
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Also great
Harlem Shuffle
Colson Whitehead
Something New Under the Sun
Alexandra Kleeman
The Other Black Girl
Zakiya Dalila Harris
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
Dawnie Walton
The Sunset Route
Freight Trains, Forgiveness, and Freedom on the Rails in the American West
Carrot Quinn
Assembly
Natasha Brown
The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
Brian Evenson
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead
The Promise
Damon Galgut
The Committed
Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Souvenir Museum
Elizabeth McCracken
Palmares
Gayl Jones
Fake Accounts
Lauren Oyler