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
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2021 Books
USA Today: The Best Books of 2021
10 December 2021
USA Today
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The Best Books of 2021
[see also
2022
]
The Burning Blue
The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster
Kevin Cook
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Joan Didion
King Richard
Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy
Michael Dobbs
The Sentence
Louise Erdrich
The Girls Are All So Nice Here
Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Shooting Midnight Cowboy
Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic
Glenn Frankel
Crossroads
Jonathan Franzen
Matrix
Lauren Groff
Sex Cult Nun
Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
Faith Jones
The Prophets
Robert Jones Jr.
Broken (in the best possible way)
Jenny Lawson
On Animals
Susan Orlean
These Precious Days
Ann Patchett
Little and Often
A Memoir
Trent Preszler
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
Filthy Animals
Brandon Taylor
Fight Night
Miriam Toews