Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2023
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2023
Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade
New Yorker: Richard Brody: 30 Best Movies of 2015
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2021 Books
New Statesman: Best Books of 2021
21 December 2021
New Statesman
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Best Books of 2021
[see also
2023
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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
