Year-End Lists

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

All of Us Strangers - Andrew Haigh

Adam Kempenaar: Filmspotting Top 10 Films of 2023

May December - Todd Haynes

Little White Lies The 30 Best Films of 2023

The Laughter - Sonora Jha

Shelf Awareness 2023 Best Books of the Year

The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We - Mitski

Passerby Best Albums of 2023

Working Girl - Sophia Giovannitti

Passerby Best Books of 2023

Past Lives - Celine Song

Passerby Best Films of 2023

everything is alive - Slowdive

Spectrum Culture Top 20 Albums of 2023

That! Feels Good! - Jessie Ware

Adrian Thrills: Daily Mail Best Albums of 2023

Balladz - Sharon Olds

Rishi Dastidar: Guardian Best Poetry Books of 2023

Poverty, by America - Matthew Desmond

California Review of Books 10 Best Books of 2023

The Omnichord Real Book - Meshell Ndegeocello

Albumism The 50 Best Albums of 2023

Guardian The 50 Best TV Shows of 2023

chaos takes the wheel and i am a passenger - awakebutstillinbed

Ian Cohen: Uproxx The Best Emo Albums Of 2023

Barbie - Greta Gerwig

Erin Trahan: WBUR The Best Films of 2023

Menus-plaisirs - Les Troisgros - Frederick Wiseman

Sean Burns: WBUR The Best Films of 2023

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. - Kelly Fremon Craig

Spectrum Culture Best Films of 2023

The Holdovers - Alexander Payne

Max Weiss: Baltimore Magazine Favorite Films of 2023

You Could Make This Place Beautiful - Maggie Smith

Electric Lit Best Nonfiction of 2023

Terrace Story - Hilary Leichter

Electric Lit Best Novels of 2023

The Marriage Question - Clare Carlisle

Constance Grady: Vox The Very Best Books of 2023

I Hope You Can Forgive Me - Madison McFerrin

Adrian Spinelli: San Francisco Chronicle Best Albums of 2023

Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese

Clarisse Loughrey: Independent The Best Films of 2023

Javelin - Sufjan Stevens

Entertainment Weekly The Best Albums of 2023

Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese

Glenn Kenny The Top Forty-Five Films Of 2023