Year-End Lists

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

Poetry
Wrong Norma - Anne Carson

Publishers Weekly: Best Poetry Books of 2024

Wrong Norma - Anne Carson

National Book Award: Poetry 2024

Judas Goat - Gabrielle Bates

Book Riot: Connie Pan: 12 of the Best Poetry Collections from 2023

Balladz - Sharon Olds

Guardian: Rishi Dastidar: Best Poetry Books of 2023

suddenly we - Evie Shockley

Boston Globe: Dasia Moore: 6 Favorite Poetry Collections of 2023

From From - Monica Youn

New York Times: Elisa Gabbert: The Best Poetry of 2023

School of Instructions - Ishion Hutchinson

Library Journal: Best Poetry of 2023

School of Instructions - Ishion Hutchinson

Financial Times: Maria Crawford: Best Postry Books of 2023

Was It for This - Hannah Sullivan

Guardian: Kate Kellaway: Best Poetry Books of 2023

The Kingdom of Surfaces - Sally Wen Mao

Electric Lit: Best Poetry Collections of 2023

The Lights - Ben Lerner

Washington Post: Srikanth Reddy: 11 Great Poetry Collections from 2023

from unincorporated territory [åmot] - Craig Santos Perez

National Book Award: Poetry 2023

From From - Monica Youn

Publishers Weekly: Best Poetry Books of 2023

Quiet - Victoria Adukwei Bulley

New Statesman: Ellen Peirson-Hagger: The Best Poetry Books of 2022

The Trees Witness Everything - Victoria Chang

Guardian: The Best Poetry Books of 2022

The Hurting Kind - Ada Limón

Electric Lit: Favorite Poetry Collections of 2022

As She Appears - Shelley Wong

Book Riot: Connie Pan: 10 of the Best Poetry Collections of 2022

In a Few Minutes Before Later - Brenda Hillman

Library Journal: Best Poetry of 2022

Path of Totality - Niina Pollari

New York Times: Elisa Gabbert: The Best Poetry of 2022

Time Is a Mother - Ocean Vuong

Financial Times: Maria Crawford: Best Poetry Books of 2022

Please make me pretty, I don't want to die - Tawanda Mulalu

Washington Post: Troy Jollimore: The 5 Best Poetry Collections of 2022

Punks - John Keene

National Book Award: Poetry 2022

Alive at the End of the World - Saeed Jones

Publishers Weekly: Best Poetry Books of 2022

The Blues of Heaven - Barbara Ras

Whittier Daily News: Maggie Smith: Top 10 Poetry Books of 2021

Pilgrim Bell - Kaveh Akbar

Electric Lit: Favorite Poetry Collections of 2021

Pilgrim Bell - Kaveh Akbar

Library Journal: Best Poetry of 2021

Returning the Sword to the Stone - Mark Leidner

New York Times: Elisa Gabbert: The Best Poetry of 2021

If God Is a Virus - Seema Yasmin

New York Public Library: Best Poetry of 2021

Doppelgangbanger - Cortney Lamar Charleston

Boston Globe: The Best Poetry of 2021

Floaters - Martín Espada

National Book Award: Poetry 2021

The Essential June Jordan - June Jordan

Publishers Weekly: Best Poetry Books of 2021

Discipline - Jane Yeh

Hyperallergic: Our Favorite Poetry Books of 2020

I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First - Angie Mazakis

Boston Globe: Best Poetry of 2020

Wicked Enchantment - Wanda Coleman

New York Times: Elisa Gabbert: The Best Poetry of 2020

DMZ Colony - Don Mee Choi

Publishers Weekly: Best Poetry Books of 2020

Finna - Nate Marshall

David Gutowski: Favorite Poetry Collections of 2020

Library Journal: Best Poetry of 2020

The Malevolent Volume - Justin Phillip Reed

Washington Post: Troy Jollimore: Best Poetry Collections of 2020

Postcolonial Love Poem - Natalie Diaz

Guardian: Best Poetry Books of 2020

A Nail the Evening Hangs On - Monica Sok

New York Public Library: Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020

DMZ Colony - Don Mee Choi

National Book Award: Poetry 2020

Deaf Republic - Ilya Kaminsky

Publishers Weekly: 5 Best Poetry Books of 2019

The Year of Blue Water - Yanyi

Chicago Review of Books: Anthony Frame: 10 Great Poetry Collections You May Have Missed

The Next Loves - Stéphane Bouquet

New York Times: David Orr: The Best Poetry Books of 2019

Soft Science - Franny Choi

Electric Lit: Christina Orlando: 14 Unmissable Poetry Books from 2019

The Year of Blue Water - Yanyi

New York Public Library: Best Poetry Books of 2019

Library of Small Catastrophes - Alison C. Rollins

BuzzFeed: Best Poetry of 2019

Dunce - Mary Ruefle

Dennis Cooper: Favorite Poetry of 2019