Year-End Lists

Amy Taubin: 10 Best Films of 2013, as published by Artforum

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1. Jean-Luc Godard – The Spirit of the Forms [retrospective]
2. A Touch of Sin
   Jia Zhang-ke
3. Spring Breakers
   Harmony Korine
4. Computer Chess
   Andrew Bujalski
5. Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
   Jonas Mekas
6. Only Lovers Left Alive
   Jim Jarmusch
7. Top of the Lake
   Jane Campion and Garth Davis
8. The Grandmaster
   Wong Kar-Wai
9. Bastards
   Claire Denis
10. Le Joli Mai
    Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme

James Quandt: 10 Best Films of 2013, as published by Artforum

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1. Norte, the End of History
   Lav Diaz
2. ‘Til Madness Do Us Part
   Wang Bing
3. Three Exercises of Interpretation
   Cristi Puiu
4. What Now? Remind Me
   Joaquim Pinto
5. The King's Body
   João Pedro Rodrigues
6. A Touch of Sin
   Jia Zhang-ke
6. Manuscripts Don't Burn
   Mohammad Rasoulof
7. Ravel Ravel Unravel
   Anri Sala
8. The Last of the Unjust
   Claude Lanzmann
9. Stranger by the Lake
   Alain Guiraudie
10. Salvation Army
    Abdellah Taïa

Les Inrockuptibles: Top 50 Albums of 2013

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1. Reflektor
   Arcade Fire
2. Psycho Tropical Berlin
   La Femme
3. Random Access Memories
   Daft Punk
4. Push the Sky Away
   Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
5. Howlin’
   Jagwar Ma
6. Parcs
   Bertrand Belin
7. The Electric Lady
   Janelle Monáe
8. Racine carrée
   Stromae
9. Les chansons de l'innocence retrouvée
   Étienne Daho
10. Light Up Gold
    Parquet Courts
11. Settle
    Disclosure
12. If You Wait
    London Grammar
13. Psychic
    Darkside
14. Overgrown
    James Blake
15. Yeezus
    Kanye West
16. 180
    Palma Violets
17. Aventine
    Agnes Obel
18. Images du Futur
    Suuns
19. Body Music
    AlunaGeorge
20. The Golden Age
    Woodkid
21. Bankrupt!
    Phoenix
22. Lanterns
    Son Lux
23. Antiphon
    Midlake
24. We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
    Foxygen
25. Drone Logic
    Daniel Avery
26. AM
    Arctic Monkeys
27. Archipel
    Peau
28. Aleph
    Gesaffelstein
29. Modern Vampires of the City
    Vampire Weekend
30. Comedown Machine
    The Strokes
31. Nobody Knows.
    Willis Earl Beal
32. Field of Reeds
    These New Puritans
33. Glow
    Jackson and His Computerband
34. Sing to the Moon
    Laura Mvula
35. Holy Fire
    Foals
36. Doris
    Earl Sweatshirt
37. No Deal
    Mélanie De Biasio
38. More Light
    Primal Scream
39. Drenge
    Drenge
40. Dream River
    Bill Callahan
41. Matangi
    M.I.A.
42. Pushin’ Against a Stone
    Valerie June
43. The Child of Lov
    The Child of Lov
44. Seasons of Your Day
    Mazzy Star
45. Long.Live.A$AP
    A$AP Rocky
46. Silence Yourself
    Savages
47. Super Forma
    Orval Carlos Sibelius
48. No Ceremony
    No Ceremony
49. Kiss Land
    The Weeknd
50. The Next Day
    David Bowie

Publishers Weekly: Best Poetry Books of 2013

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• Metaphysical Dog
  Frank Bidart
• Rise in the Fall
  Ana Bozicevic
• Transfer of Qualities
  Martha Ronk
• Incarnadine
  Mary Szybist
• The Book of Goodbyes
  Jillian Weise

Publishers Weekly: Top 10 Books of 2013

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• Sea of Hooks
  Lindsay Hill
• Going Clear

  Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
  Lawrence Wright
• Dirty Wars

  The World Is a Battlefield
  Jeremy Scahill
• Men We Reaped
  Jesmyn Ward
• The People in the Trees
  Hanya Yanagihara
• Lost Girls

  An Unsolved American Mystery
  Robert Kolker
• Miss Anne in Harlem

  The White Women of the Black Renaissance
  Carla Kaplan
• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
  Anthony Marra
• The Silence and the Roar
  Nihad Sîris
• The Good Lord Bird
  James McBride

The Washington Post: Top 10 Books of 2013

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 10 Best Books of 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020 • Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • The 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The Ten Best Books of 2014 • The 10 Best Books of 2012]

Nonfiction

• Book of Ages

  The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
  Jill Lepore
• Drink

  The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol
  Ann Dowsett Johnston
• Going Clear

  Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
  Lawrence Wright
• The Guns at Last Light

  The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
  Rick Atkinson
• Thank You for Your Service
  David Finkel

Fiction

• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
  Anthony Marra
• The Good Lord Bird
  James McBride
• How the Light Gets In
  Louise Penny
• The Son
  Philipp Meyer
• The Woman Upstairs
  Claire Messud

National Book Award: Fiction 2013

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Winner

• The Good Lord Bird
  James McBride

Finalists

• The Flamethrowers
  Rachel Kushner
• The Lowland
  Jhumpa Lahiri
• Bleeding Edge
  Thomas Pynchon
• Tenth of December
  George Saunders

Longlist

• Pacific
  Tom Drury
• The End of the Point
  Elizabeth Graver
• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
  Anthony Marra
• Someone
  Alice McDermott
• Fools
  Joan Silber

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2013

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Winner

• The Unwinding

  An Inner History of the New America
  George Packer

Finalists

• Book of Ages

  The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
  Jill Lepore
• Hitler's Furies

  German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
  Wendy Lower
• The Internal Enemy

  Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832
  Alan Taylor
• Going Clear

  Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
  Lawrence Wright

Longlist

• Finding Florida

  The True History of the Sunshine State
  T.D. Allman
• Facing the Wave

  A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami
  Gretel Ehrlich
• The Wolf and the Watchman

  A Father, a Son, and the CIA
  Scott C. Johnson
• Freedom National

  The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
  James Oakes
• Duke

  A Life of Duke Ellington
  Terry Teachout

National Book Award: Poetry 2013

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Winner

• Incarnadine
  Mary Szybist

Finalists

• Metaphysical Dog
  Frank Bidart
• Stay, Illusion
  Lucie Brock-Broido
• The Big Smoke
  Adrian Matejka
• Black Aperture
  Matt Rasmussen

Longlist

• Bury My Clothes
  Roger Bonair-Agard
• So Recently Rent a World
  Andrei Codrescu
• Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire
  Brenda Hillman
• American Amnesiac
  Diane Raptosh
• Transfer of Qualities
  Martha Ronk

The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2013

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Winner

• The Luminaries
  Eleanor Catton

Shortlist

• We Need New Names
  NoViolet Bulawayo
• Harvest
  Jim Crace
• The Lowland
  Jhumpa Lahiri
• A Tale for the Time Being
  Ruth Ozeki
• The Testament Of Mary
  Colm Tóibín

Longlist

• Five Star Billionaire
  Tash Aw
• The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
  Eve Harris
• The Kills
  Richard House
• Unexploded
  Alison MacLeod
• TransAtlantic
  Colum McCann
• Almost English
  Charlotte Mendelson
• The Spinning Heart
  Donal Ryan