Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

Clare Beams

The Garden
- 21 Best Books of 2024: Vanity Fair
The Illness Lesson
- The Best Books Of 2020: Bustle
- Favorite Novels of 2020: Electric Lit

The Ice Tower Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Ad Astra James Gray
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The MANIAC Benjamin Labatut
Saint Omer Alice Diop
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
On Falling Laura Carreira
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.