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
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2023
Observer: Mark Kermode: 10 Best Films of 2022
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2023
Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2024
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2022 Books
BuzzFeed: The Best Books of 2022
17 December 2022
BuzzFeed
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The Best Books of 2022
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2021
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2010s
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2019
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2018
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Literary Fiction
If I Survive You
Jonathan Escoffery
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li
All This Could Be Different
Sarah Thankam Mathews
The Boy with a Bird in His Chest
Emme Lund
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
Noor Naga
Romance
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Akwaeke Emezi
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Mistakes Were Made
Meryl Wilsner
Nonfiction
Easy Beauty
Chloé Cooper Jones
Fight Like Hell
The Untold History of American Labor
Kim Kelly
Finale
Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim
D.T. Max
Crying in the Bathroom
Erika L. Sánchez
High-Risk Homosexual
Edgar Gomez
Ducks
Two Years in the Oil Sands
Kate Beaton
A Heart That Works
Rob Delaney
Constructing a Nervous System
A Memoir
Margo Jefferson
Historical
The Hacienda
Isabel Cañas
Lavender House
Lev A.C. Rosen
Fantasy
Babel
An Arcane History
R.F. Kuang
Siren Queen
Nghi Vo
When Women Were Dragons
Kelly Barnhill
Mystery/Thriller
A Novel Obsession
Caitlin Barasch
The Violin Conspiracy
Brendan Slocumb