Year-End Lists

James Poniewozik: Best TV Shows of 2023, as published by The New York Times

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

• The Bear
• Beef
• The Curse
• Dead Ringers
• I'm a Virgo
• Jury Duty
• The Last of Us
• Somebody Somewhere
• Reservation Dogs
• South Side
• Succession

Honorable mention

• Barry
• Blue Eye Samurai
• Dave
• Happy Valley
• How To with John Wilson
• I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
• Killing It
• Minx
• Mrs. Davis
• Party Down
• Scavengers Reign
• The Traitors

Flawed but fascinating

• Foundation
• Hello Tomorrow!
• Three-Body
• The Wheel of Time

IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2023

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2015]

1. Past Lives
   Celine Song
2. The Taste of Things
   Trần Anh Hùng
3. Asteroid City
   Wes Anderson
4. The Boy and the Heron
   Hayao Miyazaki
5. May December
   Todd Haynes
6. Poor Things
   Yorgos Lanthimos
7. Passages
   Ira Sachs
8. Anatomy of a Fall
   Justine Triet
9. All of Us Strangers
   Andrew Haigh
10. The Zone of Interest
    Jonathan Glazer
11. A Thousand and One
    A.V. Rockwell
12. Barbie
    Greta Gerwig
13. The Delinquents
    Rodrigo Moreno
14. Oppenheimer
    Christopher Nolan
15. Killers of the Flower Moon
    Martin Scorsese
16. R.M.N.
    Cristian Mungiu
17. Love Life
    Kôji Fukada
18. Pacifiction
    Albert Serra
19. Kokomo City
    D. Smith
20. La chimera
    Alice Rohrwacher
21. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
    Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson
22. Earth Mama
    Savanah Leaf
23. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
    Kelly Fremon Craig
24. Godland
    Hlynur Pálmason
25. Beau Is Afraid
    Ari Aster

The New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2023

[see also 100 Notable Books of 2023 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 100 Notable Books of 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 100 Notable Books of 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2020 • 100 Notable Books of 2020 • 100 Notable Books of 2019 • The 10 Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The 10 Best Books of 2014 • The 10 Best Books of 2013 • 100 Notable Books of 2012 • 10 Best Books of 2012 • 100 Notable Books of 2011 • Ten Best Books of 2011]

Fiction

• The Bee Sting
  Paul Murray
• Chain-Gang All-Stars
  Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• Eastbound
  Maylis de Kerangal
• The Fraud
  Zadie Smith
• North Woods
  Daniel Mason

Nonfiction

• The Best Minds

  A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
  Jonathan Rosen
• Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs

  A Journey Through the Deep State
  Kerry Howley
• Fire Weather

  A True Story from a Hotter World
  John Vaillant
• Master Slave Husband Wife

  An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
  Ilyon Woo
• Some People Need Killing

  A Memoir of Murder in My Country
  Patricia Evangelista

The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2023

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

Winner

• Prophet Song
  Paul Lynch

Shortlist

• The Bee Sting
  Paul Murray
• Western Lane
  Chetna Maroo
• This Other Eden
  Paul Harding
• If I Survive You
  Jonathan Escoffery
• Study for Obedience
  Sarah Bernstein

Longlist

• The House of Doors
  Tan Twang Eng
• In Ascension
  Martin MacInnes
• All The Little Bird-Hearts
  Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
• Pearl
  Siân Hughes
• How to Build a Boat
  Elaine Feeney
• Old God's Time
  Sebastian Barry
• A Spell of Good Things
  Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

Sarah Larson: The Best Podcasts of 2023, as published by The New Yorker

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

1. Think Twice: Michael Jackson
2. Next Year in Moscow
3. The Kids of Rutherford County
3. Unreformed: the Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children
4. Articles of Interest
5. Grapevine
6. The Big Dig
7. The 13th Step
8. Normal Gossip
9. Magnificent Jerk
10. Classy with Jonathan Menjivar

Paste Magazine: 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. Javelin
   Sufjan Stevens
3. Beloved! Paradise! Jazz!?
   McKinley Dixon
4. Desire, I Want to Turn Into You
   Caroline Polachek
5. The Window
   Ratboys
6. The Greater Wings
   Julie Byrne
7. I Killed Your Dog
   L'Rain
8. The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We
   Mitski
9. My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross
   Anohni and the Johnsons
10. Madres
    Sofia Kourtesis
11. Lucky for You
    Bully
12. Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?
    Kara Jackson
13. Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
    Jaimie Branch
14. Spike Field
    Maria BC
15. Guts
    Olivia Rodrigo
16. Raven
    Kelela
17. Erotic Probiotic 2
    Nourished By Time
18. the record
    boygenius
19. All of This Will End
    Indigo De Souza
20. Everything Harmony
    The Lemon Twigs
21. Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)
    Yves Tumor
22. Greg Mendez
    Greg Mendez
23. Maps
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
24. Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
    Lana Del Rey
25. Sundial
    Noname
26. Time Ain't Accidental
    Jess Williamson
27. Girl with Fish
    Feeble Little Horse
28. Desolation's Flower
    Ragana
29. Softscars
    yeule
30. Heaven Is a Junkyard
    Youth Lagoon
31. Jenny from Thebes
    The Mountain Goats
32. Saved!
    Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter
33. That! Feels Good!
    Jessie Ware
34. Good Living Is Coming For You
    Sweeping Promises
35. Strange Disciple
    Nation of Language
36. Everyone's Crushed
    Water From Your Eyes
37. Heavy Heavy
    Young Fathers
38. Scaring the Hoes
    JPEGMafia and Danny Brown
39. Weathervanes
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
40. Cut Worms
    Cut Worms
41. Vidrio
    Titanic
42. Cartwheel
    Hotline TNT
43. Oh Me Oh My
    Lonnie Holley
44. I Inside the Old Year Dying
    PJ Harvey
45. Tomorrow's Fire
    Squirrel Flower
46. We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
    Armand Hammer
47. Yard
    Slow Pulp
48. Fish Bowl
    Kate Davis
49. Sun Arcs
    Blue Lake
50. This Stupid World
    Yo La Tengo

The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2023

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 100 Notable Books of 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 100 Notable Books of 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2020 • 100 Notable Books of 2020 • 100 Notable Books of 2019 • The 10 Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The 10 Best Books of 2014 • The 10 Best Books of 2013 • 100 Notable Books of 2012 • 10 Best Books of 2012 • 100 Notable Books of 2011 • Ten Best Books of 2011]

Fiction

• After Sappho
  Selby Wynn Schwartz
• All the Sinners Bleed
  S.A. Cosby
• The Bee Sting
  Paul Murray
• Biography of X
  Catherine Lacey
• Birnam Wood
  Eleanor Catton
• Blackouts
  Justin Torres
• Bright Young Women
  Jessica Knoll
• Chain-Gang All-Stars
  Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• The Covenant of Water
  Abraham Verghese
• Crook Manifesto
  Colson Whitehead
• The Deluge
  Stephen Markley
• Eastbound
  Maylis de Kerangal
• Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
  Heather Fawcett
• Enter Ghost
  Isabella Hammad
• Forbidden Notebook
  Alba de Céspedes
• The Fraud
  Zadie Smith
• From From
  Monica Youn
• A Guest in the House
  Emily Carroll
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
  James McBride
• Hello Beautiful
  Ann Napolitano
• A History of Burning
  Janika Oza
• Holly
  Stephen King
• A House for Alice
  Diana Evans
• The Iliad
  Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
• Ink Blood Sister Scribe
  Emma Törzs
• Kairos
  Jenny Erpenbeck
• Kantika
  Elizabeth Graver
• Land of Milk and Honey
  C Pam Zhang
• Lone Women
  Victor LaValle
• Monica
  Daniel Clowes
• The Most Secret Memory of Men
  Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
• The New Naturals
  Gabriel Bump
• North Woods
  Daniel Mason
• Not Even the Dead
  Juan Goméz Barcena
• The Nursery
  Szilvia Molnar
• Our Share of Night
  Mariana Enriquez
• Pineapple Street
  Jenny Jackson
• The Reformatory
  Tananarive Due
• The Saint of Bright Doors
  Vajra Chandrasekera
• Same Bed Different Dreams
  Ed Park
• Take What You Need
  Idra Novey
• This Other Eden
  Paul Harding
• Tom Lake
  Ann Patchett
• The Unsettled
  Ayana Mathis
• Victory City
  Salman Rushdie
• We Could Be So Good
  Cat Sebastian
• Western Lane
  Chetna Maroo
• Witness
  Jamel Brinkley
• Y/N
  Esther Yi
• Yellowface
  R.F. Kuang

Nonfiction

• The 272

  The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
  Rachel L. Swarns
• Anansi's Gold

  The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
  Yepoka Yeebo
• Battle of Ink and Ice

  A Sensational Story of News Barons, North Pole Explorers, and the Making of Modern Media
  Darrell Hartman
• The Best Minds

  A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
  Jonathan Rosen
• Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs

  A Journey Through the Deep State
  Kerry Howley
• Built from the Fire

  The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street
  Victor Luckerson
• Cobalt Red

  How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
  Siddharth Kara
• Crossings

  How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
  Ben Goldfarb
• Daughter of the Dragon

  Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
  Yunte Huang
• Doppelganger

  A Trip into the Mirror World
  Naomi Klein
• Easily Slip into Another World

  A Life in Music
  Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards
• The Exceptions

  Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
  Kate Zernike
• Fire Weather

  A True Story from a Hotter World
  John Vaillant
• The Great Escape

  A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America
  Saket Soni
• The Half Known Life

  In Search of Paradise
  Pico Iyer
• How to Say Babylon

  A Memoir
  Safiya Sinclair
• Humanly Possible

  Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
  Sarah Bakewell
• Judgment at Tokyo

  World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
  Gary J. Bass
• King

  A Life
  Jonathan Eig
• The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

  American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
  Tim Alberta
• The Land of Hope and Fear

  Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul
  Isabel Kershner
• Liliana's Invincible Summer

  A Sister's Search for Justice
  Cristina Rivera Garza
• Lives of the Wives

  Five Literary Marriages
  Carmela Ciuraru
• A Living Remedy
  Nicole Chung
• Master Slave Husband Wife

  An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
  Ilyon Woo
• Monsters

  A Fan's Dilemma
  Claire Dederer
• My Name is Barbra
  Barbra Streisand
• The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley

  A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence
  David Waldstreicher
• Ordinary Notes
  Christina Sharpe
• Oscar Wars

  A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
  Michael Schulman
• Our Migrant Souls

  A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
  Héctor Tobar
• Pageboy
  Elliot Page
• Poverty, by America
  Matthew Desmond
• The Rediscovery of America

  Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
  Ned Blackhawk
• The Rigor of Angels

  Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
  William Egginton
• Schoenberg

  Why He Matters
  Harvey Sachs
• Sink
  Joseph Earl Thomas
• The Slip

  The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
  Prudence Peiffer
• Some People Need Killing

  A Memoir of Murder in My Country
  Patricia Evangelista
• Spoken Word

  A Cultural History
  Joshua Bennett
• A Thread of Violence

  A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder
  Mark O'Connell
• Time's Echo

  The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance
  Jeremy Eichler
• The Undertow

  Scenes from a Slow Civil War
  Jeff Sharlet
• Unscripted

  The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy
  James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams
• Up Home

  One Girl's Journey
  Ruth J. Simmons
• The Wager

  A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  David Grann
• Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

  A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
  Tahir Hamut Izgil
• What an Owl Knows

  The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
  Jennifer Ackerman
• Wifedom

  Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
  Anna Funder
• You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live

  Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
  Paul Kix

New York Public Library: Top 10 Books for Adults, posted along with other lists for browsing

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

• The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
  Shannon Chakraborty
• Bad Kids
  Zijin Chen
• The Bee Sting
  Paul Murray
• Knockout
  Sarah MacLean
• Land of Milk and Honey
  C Pam Zhang
• Last On His Feet

  Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century
  Youssef Daoudi (art) and Adrian Matejka (poetics)
• The New Guy
  Sarina Bowen
• Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco
  K. Iver
• Shubeik Lubeik
  Deena Mohamed
• When Crack Was King

  A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
  Donovan X. Ramsey

Srikanth Reddy: 11 Great Poetry Collections from 2023, as published by The Washington Post

• April
  Sara Nicholson
• The Complete Works of Álvaro de Campos
  Fernando Pessoa
• Hydra Medusa
  Brandon Shimoda
• Information Desk

  An Epic
  Robyn Schiff
• The Lights
  Ben Lerner
• mahogany
  erica lewis
• Phantom Pain Wings
  Kim Hyesoon
• School of Instructions

  A Poem
  Ishion Hutchinson
• The Thomas Salto
  Timmy Straw
• What You Want
  Maureen N. McLane
• Whatever’s Forbidden the Wise
  Anthony Madrid

The Economist: Favourite Podcasts of 2023

[see also 2022]

• The Big Flop
• Drifting Off with Joe Pera
• Empire
• Holy Week
• If Books Could Kill
• The Kids of Rutherford County
• Normal Gossip
• Operation: Tradebom
• Past Present Future
• The Retrievals
• Search Engine
• Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas
• Ukraine: Under the Counter
• Ukraine: The Handoff