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
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Highlights
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2023
Sight & Sound Poll: Beatrice Loayza: Best Films of 2023
Barack Obama: Favorite Books of 2023
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2023
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
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2023 Books
California Review of Books: 10 Best Books of 2023
20 December 2023
California Review of Books
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10 Best Books of 2023
Blue Skies
T.C. Boyle
The Rigor of Angels
Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
William Egginton
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond
A Fever in the Heartland
The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Timothy Egan
After the Funeral and Other Stories
Tessa Hadley
The Wonder Paradox
Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives
Jennifer Michael Hecht
The Asking
New and Selected Poems
Jane Hirshfield
Tyranny of the Minority
Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
The Big Myth
How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
Why We Love Baseball
A History in 50 Moments
Joe Posnanski
