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
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2015
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
Guardian: The 50 Best Films of 2023
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2023
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2021 Books
Thrillist: The Best Books of 2021
16 December 2021
Thrillist
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The Best Books of 2021
[see also
2020
]
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George Saunders
Black Buck
Mateo Askaripour
Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner
Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead
Heaven
Mieko Kawakami
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
The Last Graduate
Naomi Novik
The Life of the Mind
Christine Smallwood
A Little Devil in America
Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib
Lurkers
Sandi Tan
Milk Fed
Melissa Broder
Mona
Pola Oloixarac
Nightbitch
Rachel Yoder
No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino
Peaces
Helen Oyeyemi
The Plot
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Second Place
Rachel Cusk
Something New Under the Sun
Alexandra Kleeman
The Twilight Zone
Nona Fernández
Yours Cruelly, Elvira
Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
Cassandra Peterson
