Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
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Highlights
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2024
Our Culture: The Best Books of 2024
Economist: The Best Books of 2024
more...
2018 Books
Maria Popova: Favorite Books of 2018
21 December 2018
Maria Popova
:
Favorite Books of 2018
, with a special entry at the end
[see also
2016
•
2015
]
So Far So Good
Ursula K. Le Guin
Feel Free
Zadie Smith
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
Alan Lightman
How to Be a Good Creature
A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
Sy Montgomery
A Burst of Light
Audre Lorde
Call Them by Their True Names
American Crises (and Essays)
Rebecca Solnit
Hiking with Nietzsche
On Becoming Who You Are
John Kaag
How to Change Your Mind
What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Michael Pollan
Almost Everything
Notes on Hope
Anne Lamott
Little Panic
Dispatches from an Anxious Life
Amanda Stern
The Strange Order of Things
Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
Antonio Damasio
The Woman Who Smashed Codes
A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies
Jason Fagone
Maker of Patterns
An Autobiography Through Letters
Freeman Dyson
The Moth Snowstorm
Nature and Joy
Michael McCarthy
A Velocity of Being
Letters to A Young Reader
Maria Popova and Claudia Bedrick (editors)
