Year-End Lists

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

2023
Chain-Gang All-Stars - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Best Books of 2023 Shelf Awareness

The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We - Mitski

Best Albums of 2023 Passerby

Working Girl - Sophia Giovannitti

Best Books of 2023 Passerby

Past Lives - Celine Song

Best Films of 2023 Passerby

everything is alive - Slowdive

Top 20 Albums of 2023 Spectrum Culture

That! Feels Good! - Jessie Ware

Best Albums of 2023 Daily Mail: Adrian Thrills

The Iliad - Homer, translated by Emily Wilson

Best Poetry Books of 2023 Guardian: Rishi Dastidar

A Fever in the Heartland - Timothy Egan

10 Best Books of 2023 California Review of Books

The Omnichord Real Book - Meshell Ndegeocello

The 50 Best Albums of 2023 Albumism

The 50 Best TV Shows of 2023 Guardian

chaos takes the wheel and i am a passenger - awakebutstillinbed

The Best Emo Albums Of 2023 Uproxx: Ian Cohen

American Fiction - Cord Jefferson

The Best Films of 2023 WBUR: Erin Trahan

Perfect Days - Wim Wenders

The Best Films of 2023 WBUR: Sean Burns

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers and Justin K. Thompson

Best Films of 2023 Spectrum Culture

The Holdovers - Alexander Payne

Favorite Films of 2023 Baltimore Magazine: Max Weiss

Monsters - Claire Dederer

Best Nonfiction of 2023 Electric Lit

The Guest - Emma Cline

Best Novels of 2023 Electric Lit

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

The Very Best Books of 2023 Vox: Constance Grady

The Age of Pleasure - Janelle Monáe

Best Albums of 2023 San Francisco Chronicle: Adrian Spinelli

Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese

The Best Films of 2023 Independent: Clarisse Loughrey

Javelin - Sufjan Stevens

The Best Albums of 2023 Entertainment Weekly

Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese

The Top Forty-Five Films Of 2023 Glenn Kenny

Poker Face

The 15 Best TV Shows of 2023 Atlantic

The 25 Best TV Series of 2023 RogerEbert.com