Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
New York Times: Mike Hale: Best International TV Shows of 2024
Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2024
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2024
more...
2021 Books
New Statesman: Best Books of 2021
21 December 2021
New Statesman
:
Best Books of 2021
[see also
2023
]
Non-fiction
The Aristocracy of Talent
How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
Adrian Wooldridge
Being You
A New Science of Consciousness
Anil Seth
Burning Man
The Trials of D. H. Lawrence
Frances Wilson
Geopolitics for the End Time
From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis
Bruno Maçães
Real Estate
A Living Autobiography
Deborah Levy
Silent Earth
Averting the Insect Apocalypse
Dave Goulson
Shutdown
How Covid Shook the World's Economy
Adam Tooze
One of Them
An Eton College Memoir
Okwonga Musa
Postliberal Politics
The Coming Era of Renewal
Adrian Pabst
Orwell's Roses
Rebecca Solnit
Fiction
Intimacies
Katie Kitamura
No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood
little scratch
Rebecca Watson
A Lonely Man
Chris Power
The Netanyahus
An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family
Joshua Cohen
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
My Phantoms
Gwendoline Riley
Open Water
Caleb Azumah Nelson
Treacle Walker
Alan Garner
Sterling Karat Gold
Isabel Waidner