Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
GCN: Steve Erickson: Top 10 Movies of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
more...
2024 Books
New Statesman: The 20 Best Books of 2024
16 December 2024
New Statesman
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The 20 Best Books of 2024
[see also
2023
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2021
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Non-fiction
Wild Thing
A Life of Paul Gauguin
Sue Prideaux
Knife
Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie
What Are Children For?
On Ambivalence and Choice
Anastasia Berg & Rachel Wiseman
The Haunted Wood
A History of Childhood Reading
Sam Leith
Facing Down the Furies
Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me
Edith Hall
Character Limit
How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
Kate Conger & Ryan Mac
Hardy Women
Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses
Paula Byrne
To Run the World
The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power
Sergey Radchenko
Taken As Red
How the Election was Won and Lost
Anushka Asthana
The Burning Earth
An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
Sunil Amrith
Alphabetical Diaries
Sheila Heti
The Corporation in the 21st Century
Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong
John Kay
Cairn
Kathleen Jamie
Every Valley
The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
Charles King
Fiction
James
Percival Everett
Spent Light
Lara Pawson
Choice
Neel Mukherjee
The Edge of the Alphabet
Janet Frame
The Heart in Winter
Kevin Barry
Poetry
Ruin, Blossom
John Burnside
