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
Mojo: 75 Best Albums of 2023
The Ringer: Adam Nayman: The Best Movies of 2023
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2023
BBC Culture: The 20 Best Films of 2023
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2023 Books
New Statesman: The 20 Best Books of 2023
18 January 2024
New Statesman
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The 20 Best Books of 2023
[see also
2021
]
Non-fiction
A Memoir of My Former Self
A Life in Writing
Hilary Mantel
What Is a Doctor?
A GP's Prescription for the Future
Phil Whitaker
Red Memory
The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
Tania Branigan
A Northern Wind
Britain 1962-65
David Kynaston
Quartet
How Four Women Changed The Musical World
Leah Broad
Material World
The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Ed Conway
Watford Forever
How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other
John Preston and Elton John
An Uneasy Inheritance
My Family and Other Radicals
Polly Toynbee
Johnson at 10
The Inside Story
Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell
Matrescence
On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood
Lucy Jones
The Tragic Mind
Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
Robert D. Kaplan
Fiction
The Iliad
Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
Cuddy
Benjamin Myers
Kick the Latch
Kathryn Scanlan
Burning Angel and Other Stories
Lawrence Osborne
Old God's Time
Sebastian Barry
Ordinary Human Failings
Megan Nolan
Small Worlds
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Forbidden Notebook
Alba de Céspedes
Bright Fear
Mary Jean Chan
