Year-End Lists

Hillary Kelly: Five Best Novels of 2023, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2021]

• Mild Vertigo
  Mieko Kanai
• The Vaster Wilds
  Lauren Groff
• Biography of X
  Catherine Lacey
• Terrace Story
  Hilary Leichter
• Loved and Missed
  Susie Boyt

Mark Athitakis: Five Best Novels of 2023, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2022 • 2021]

• The New Life
  Tom Crewe
• Loot
  Tania James
• Lone Women
  Victor LaValle
• Same Bed Different Dreams
  Ed Park
• Commitment
  Mona Simpson

Maura Johnston: The 10 Best Albums of 2023, as published by Time Magazine

[see also 2018]

1. Red Moon in Venus
   Kali Uchis
2. Zach Bryan
   Zach Bryan
3. SOS
   SZA
4. The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
   Chappell Roan
5. Water Made Us
   Jamila Woods
6. Principia
   En Attendant Ana
7. Sundial
   Noname
8. Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
   Jaimie Branch
9. Follow the Cyborg
   Miss Grit
10. This Is Why
    Paramore

Maris Kreizman: The Best Books of 2023, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

1. Doppelganger

   A Trip into the Mirror World
   Naomi Klein
2. Enter Ghost
   Isabella Hammad
3. When Crack Was King

   A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
   Donovan X. Ramsey
4. Biography of X
   Catherine Lacey
5. Palo Alto

   A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
   Malcolm Harris
6. How to Say Babylon

   A Memoir
   Safiya Sinclair
7. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
   Lorrie Moore
8. All the Sinners Bleed
   S.A. Cosby
9. Pig
   Sam Sax
10. Raw Dog

    The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
    Jamie Loftus

Craig Jenkins: The Best Albums of 2023, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016]

1. Lahai
   Sampha
2. Workin' on a World
   Iris DeMent
3. Javelin
   Sufjan Stevens
4. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
   Yves Tumor
5. Sundial
   Noname
6. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
   Armand Hammer
7. Raven
   Kelela
8. the record
   boygenius
9. Air Not Meant For Us
   Fires in the Distance
10. Imagine This Is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities
    James Holden

Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Rat Saw God
   Wednesday
2. Guts
   Olivia Rodrigo
3. Maps
   Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
4. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
   Mitski
5. the record
   boygenius
6. The Window
   Ratboys
7. Life Under the Gun
   Militarie Gun
8. Cartwheel
   Hotline TNT
9. Post-American
   MSPAINT
10. 10,000 gecs
    100 gecs
11. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
    Caroline Polachek
12. Voir Dire
    Earl Sweatshirt and the Alchemist
13. Lucky for You
    Bully
14. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
15. After the Magic
    Parannoul
16. All of This Will End
    Indigo De Souza
17. Yard
    Slow Pulp
18. Dead Meat
    The Tubs
19. Radical Romantics
    Fever Ray
20. Running From the Chase
    Truth Club
21. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
22. With A Hammer
    yaeji
23. Destiny
    DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ
24. everything is alive
    Slowdive
25. Multitudes
    Feist
26. Raven
    Kelela
27. Softscars
    yeule
28. The Enduring Spirit
    Tomb Mold
29. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
30. Larger than Life
    Brent Faiyaz
31. Pure Music
    Strange Ranger
32. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
33. Ganger
    Veeze
34. Erotic Probiotic 2
    Nourished By Time
35. Javelin
    Sufjan Stevens
36. Death is Nothing to Us
    Fiddlehead
37. Saturnian Bloodstorm
    Lamp Of Murmuur
38. Girl In The Half Pearl
    Liv.e
39. Girl with Fish
    Feeble Little Horse
40. Jaguar II
    Victoria Monét
41. Infinite Spring
    superviolet
42. Good Lies
    Overmono
43. The Rime Of Memory
    Panopticon
44. The Greater Wings
    Julie Byrne
45. Games Of Power
    Home Front
46. Hood Hottest Princess
    Sexyy Red
47. Living Proof
    Drain
48. Eye On The Bat
    Palehound
49. Walk the Wheel
    Truth Cult
50. Orbweaving
    Midwife & Vyva Melinkolya

The Atlantic: The Best Books of 2023, which they're calling "The Atlantic 10" and "the books that made us think the most this year"

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2019]

• Birnam Wood
  Eleanor Catton
• Beyond the Door of No Return
  David Diop
• Our Share of Night
  Mariana Enriquez
• The Country of the Blind

  A Memoir at the End of Sight
  Andrew Leland
• Ours Was the Shining Future

  The Story of the American Dream
  David Leonhardt
• Couplets

  A Love Story
  Maggie Millner
• The Best Minds

  A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
  Jonathan Rosen
• Ordinary Notes
  Christina Sharpe
• How to Say Babylon

  A Memoir
  Safiya Sinclair
• The Iliad
  Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

Consequence: 25 Best TV Shows of 2023

[see also 2010s]

1. Succession
2. The Bear
3. Poker Face
4. Reservation Dogs
5. The Curse
6. Barry
7. The Fall of the House of Usher
8. Abbott Elementary
9. Jury Duty
10. The Last of Us
11. Party Down
12. Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
13. Mrs. Davis
14. How To with John Wilson
15. Beef
16. One Piece
17. My Adventures with Superman
18. The Other Two
19. Fargo
20. Paul T. Goldman
21. Welcome to Wrexham
22. History of the World, Part II
23. What We Do in the Shadows
24. Daisy Jones & the Six
25. Blue Eye Samurai

Laura Miller: The 10 Best Books of 2023, as published by Slate

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

• Anansi's Gold

  The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
  Yepoka Yeebo
• The Best Minds

  A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
  Jonathan Rosen
• Birnam Wood
  Eleanor Catton
• Doppelganger

  A Trip into the Mirror World
  Naomi Klein
• Fire Weather

  A True Story from a Hotter World
  John Vaillant
• The Fraud
  Zadie Smith
• The Guest
  Emma Cline
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
  James McBride
• The House of Doors
  Tan Twang Eng
• A Thread of Violence

  A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
  Mark O'Connell

Miles Surrey: The Best TV Shows of 2023, as published by The Ringer

1. Succession
2. Reservation Dogs
3. The Bear
4. Silo
5. A Murder at the End of the World
6. Poker Face
7. Jury Duty
8. Scavengers Reign
9. Beef
10. Warrior

Honorable mentions

• Barry
• Gen V
• The Last of Us
• Foundation
• The Righteous Gemstones
• Hijack
• Dave
• Cunk on Earth
• I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
• The Other Two