Year-End Lists

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

Books
Parade - Rachel Cusk

Goldsmiths Prize Best Fiction of 2024

Survival Is a Promise - Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Publishers Weekly 10 Best Books of 2024

Challenger - Adam Higginbotham

Kirkus Reviews Nonfiction 2024

James - Percival Everett

Kirkus Reviews Fiction 2024

Doppelganger - Naomi Klein

Women's Prize Non-Fiction 2024

Brotherless Night - V.V. Ganeshananthan

Women's Prize Fiction 2024

Solenoid - Mircea Cărtărescu

Dublin Literary Award 2024

Kairos - Jenny Erpenbeck

The Booker Prize 2024 International Award

Small Worlds - Caleb Azumah Nelson

Dylan Thomas Prize 2024 Award

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez - Claire Jiménez

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction 2024

Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan

Dazed The Best Novels of 2023

A Memoir of My Former Self - Hilary Mantel

New Statesman The 20 Best Books of 2023

Romantic Comedy - Curtis Sittenfeld

USA Today Best Books of 2023

Biography of X - Catherine Lacey

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya: Autostraddle The Top 12 Queer Novels of 2023

Crook Manifesto - Colson Whitehead

Town & Country The Best Books of 2023

The MANIAC - Benjamin Labatut

Barack Obama Favorite Books of 2023

Doppelganger - Naomi Klein

Harper’s Bazaar The 45 Best New Books of 2023

The Vaster Wilds - Lauren Groff

WBEZ The 12 Best Books of 2023

Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward

Shelf Awareness 2023 Best Books of the Year

Working Girl - Sophia Giovannitti

Passerby Best Books of 2023

A Fever in the Heartland - Timothy Egan

California Review of Books 10 Best Books of 2023

You Could Make This Place Beautiful - Maggie Smith

Electric Lit Best Nonfiction of 2023

Forgive Me Not - Jennifer Baker

Electric Lit Best Novels of 2023

Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Constance Grady: Vox The Very Best Books of 2023