Year-End Lists

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

Monsters - Claire Dederer

Electric Lit: Best Nonfiction of 2023

The Guest - Emma Cline

Electric Lit: Best Novels of 2023

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

Vox: Constance Grady: The Very Best Books of 2023

Rat Saw God - Wednesday

San Francisco Chronicle: Adrian Spinelli: Best Albums of 2023

Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese

The Independent: Clarisse Loughrey: The Best Films of 2023

Javelin - Sufjan Stevens

Entertainment Weekly: The Best Albums of 2023

Fargo

Atlantic: The 15 Best TV Shows of 2023

RogerEbert.com: The 25 Best TV Series of 2023

Maintenance Phase - Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes

HuffPost: The 10 Best Podcasts We Listened To In 2023

Abbott Elementary

HuffPost: The Best TV Of 2023

This Is Why - Paramore

HuffPost: The Best Albums Of 2023

Grapevine

Paste: Mara Davis: The Best Podcasts of 2023

Rat Saw God - Wednesday

Sound Opinions: Greg Kot: The Best Albums of 2023

the record - boygenius

Sound Opinions: Jim DeRogatis: The Best Albums of 2023

Rolling Stone: Alan Sepinwall: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2023

Birnam Wood - Eleanor Catton

Vogue: The Best Books of 2023

Barry

Vogue: The Best TV Shows of 2023

The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We - Mitski

Vogue: The Best Albums of 2023

The Playlist: The 20 Best TV Shows Of 2023

The Zone of Interest - Jonathan Glazer

The Playlist: The 21 Best Films of 2023

Crooked Plow - Itamar Vieira Junior

Verso Books: The Year 2023 in 10 Books

The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We - Mitski

Brooklyn Vegan: Top 55 Albums of 2023

Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan

Chron: A.A. Dowd: The Best Films of 2023

IndieWire: Ben Travers: The Best TV Shows of 2023

Black Rainbows - Corinne Bailey Rae

God Is In The TV: Albums of the Year for 2023

Mrs. Davis

Washington Post: Lili Loofbourow: Best Television Shows of 2023

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism - Martin Wolf

Foreign Affairs: The Best of Books 2023

the record - boygenius

Uproxx Music Critics Poll: Best Albums of 2023

the record - boygenius

Bob Boilen: Favorite Albums 2023

Poker Face

Chicago Tribune: Nina Metz: Best TV of 2023

Past Lives - Celine Song

Chicago Tribune: Michael Phillips: The Top 10 Best Movies of 2023

Woodwind Multiples - Mary Jane Leach

Quietus: Jennifer Lucy Allan: The Best Of 2023

Strange Disciple - Nation of Language

AllMusic: Best Albums of 2023

the record - boygenius

Variety: Chris Willman: The Best Albums of 2023

10,000 gecs - 100 gecs

Variety: Steven J. Horowitz: The Best Albums of 2023

Mañana Será Bonito - Karol G

Variety: Thania Garcia: The Best Albums of 2023

Larger than Life - Brent Faiyaz

Variety: Jem Aswad: The Best Albums of 2023

Think Twice: Michael Jackson

Financial Times: Fiona Sturges: Best Podcasts of 2023

Jaguar II - Victoria Monét

Hollywood Reporter: Mesfin Fekadu: The 10 Best Albums of 2023

The Fraud - Zadie Smith

Boston Globe: Books We Loved in 2023

Nowhere To Go But Up - Guided By Voices

Magnet: Top 25 Albums of 2023

May December - Todd Haynes

Film Comment Poll: Best Films of 2023

Tom Lake - Ann Patchett

Vanity Fair: Our 20 Favorite Books of 2023

suddenly we - Evie Shockley

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

10,000 gecs - 100 gecs

Boston Globe: Our 50 Favorite Albums of 2023

Past Lives - Celine Song

Boston Globe: Odie Henderson: 10 Best Movies of 2023

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

Paste: The Best Novels of 2023

Heavy Heavy - Young Fathers

The Skinny: Albums of 2023