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.
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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2023
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2023
The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2023
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2023
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
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Lit Hub: The 10 Best Poetry Collections of the Decade
16 October 2019
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The 10 Best Poetry Collections of the Decade
[see also
2017
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Nox
Anne Carson
Lighthead
Terrance Hayes
Life on Mars
Tracy K. Smith
When My Brother Was an Aztec
Natalie Diaz
Thrall
Natasha Trethewey
Incarnadine
Mary Szybist
Citizen
An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
Voyage of the Sable Venus
and Other Poems
Robin Coste Lewis
Night Sky With Exit Wounds
Ocean Vuong
Don’t Call Us Dead
Danez Smith
Dissenting Opinions
One With Others
C.D. Wright
Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me
Mark Leidner
Engine Empire
Cathy Park Hong
Slow Lightning
Eduardo C. Corral
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
Patricia Lockwood
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Ross Gay
Bright Dead Things
Ada Limón
Bestiary
Donika Kelly
Good Stock Strange Blood
Dawn Lundy Martin
Wild Is the Wind
Carl Phillips
Soft Science
Franny Choi
Honorable Mentions
The Best of It
Kay Ryan
Every Riven Thing
Christian Wiman
Space, in Chains
Laura Kasischke
Head Off & Split
Nikky Finney
Water Puppets
Quan Barry
not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them
Jenny Boully
Stag's Leap
Sharon Olds
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
D.A. Powell
Bewilderment
New Poems and Translations
David Ferry
My Poems Won't Change the World
Patrizia Cavalli
Vow
Rebecca Hazelton
Black Aperture
Matt Rasmussen
Antidote
Corey Van Landingham
Metaphysical Dog
Frank Bidart
3 Sections
Vijay Seshadri
White Blight
Athena Farrokhzad
Digest
Gregory Pardlo
Prelude to Bruise
Saeed Jones
Gabriel
Edward Hirsch
Faithful and Virtuous Night
Louise Glück
How to Be Drawn
Terrance Hayes
Wishing for Birds
Elisabeth Hewer
Girl-King
Brittany Cavallaro
War of the Foxes
Richard Siken
Ozone Journal
Peter Balakian
I Must Be Living Twice
New and Selected Poems 1975 – 2014
Eileen Myles
House of Lords and Commons
Ishion Hutchinson
Look
Solmaz Sharif
Olio
Tyehimba Jess
The Performance of Becoming Human
Daniel Borzutzky
Electric Arches
Eve L. Ewing
WHEREAS
Layli Long Soldier
Good Bones
Maggie Smith
Calling a Wolf a Wolf
Kaveh Akbar
Half-Light
Collected Poems 1965-2016
Frank Bidart
So Where Are We?
Lawrence Joseph
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Terrance Hayes
The Carrying
Ada Limón
Ghost Of
Diana Khoi Nguyen
Virgin
Analicia Sotelo
Indecency
Justin Phillip Reed
Tropic of Squalor
Mary Karr
Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky
The Tradition
Jericho Brown
Unhistorical
Brittany Cavallaro
Magical Negro
Morgan Parker
Gloss
Rebecca Hazelton