Year-End Lists

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

Books
The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Center for Fiction: 2015 First Novel Prize

Beauty Is a Wound - Eka Kurniawan

Powell's Books: Best Fiction Books of 2015

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Chicago Public Library: Top Ten Books of 2015

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2015

Beatlebone - Kevin Barry

Goldsmiths Prize: Best Fiction of 2015

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2015

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2015

A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James

The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2015

How to Be Both - Ali Smith

Women's Prize: Best Fiction of 2015

Euphoria - Lily King

BBC Culture: Jane Ciabattari: The 10 Best Books of 2014

The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan

Powell's Books: Best Fiction of 2014

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace - Jeff Hobbs

Powell's Books: Best Nonfiction of 2014

All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr

New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2014

Euphoria - Lily King

Chicago Public Library: Top Ten Books of 2014

A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James

Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2014

The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan

Washington Post: The Ten Best Books of 2014

How to Be Both - Ali Smith

Goldsmiths Prize: Best Fiction of 2014

Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? - Roz Chast

Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2014

Euphoria - Lily King

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2014

The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan

The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2014

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing - Eimear McBride

Women's Prize: Best Fiction of 2014

Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

BBC Culture: Jane Ciabattari: The Top 10 Books of 2013

The Flamethrowers - Rachel Kushner

New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2013

The Good Lord Bird - James McBride

Publishers Weekly: Top 10 Books of 2013

Book of Ages - Jill Lepore

Washington Post: Top 10 Books of 2013

The Good Lord Bird - James McBride

National Book Award: Fiction 2013

The Unwinding - George Packer

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2013

A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing - Eimear McBride

Goldsmiths Prize: Best Fiction of 2013

The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton

The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2013

May We Be Forgiven - A.M. Homes

Women's Prize: Best Fiction of 2013

Action, Figure - Frank Hinton

Dennis Cooper: 21 Favorite Books of 2012

Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo

Salon: Top 10 Books of 2012

Library Journal: Top 10 Books of 2012

Atlantic: Benjamin Schwarz: Top 15 Books of 2012

New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2012

Daily Beast: Tina Brown: 7 Favorite Books of 2012

Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel

Economist: 11 Best Books of 2012

Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2012

New York: Kathryn Schulz: Top 10 Books of 2012

New York Times: 10 Best Books of 2012

Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo

Washington Post: The 10 Best Books of 2012

Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel

The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2012

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

Women's Prize: Best Fiction of 2012

Catherine the Great - Robert K. Massie

Carnegie Medal: Nonfiction 2012

The Forgotten Waltz - Anne Enright

Carnegie Medal: Fiction 2012

New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2011

Swamplandia! - Karen Russell

Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan: 10 Best Novels of 2011

The Hare with Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal

Atlantic: Benjamin Schwarz: Books of the Year 2011