Year-End Lists

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

2023
Past Lives - Celine Song

The 50 Best Films of 2023 Guardian

May December - Todd Haynes

The 30 Best Films of 2023 Little White Lies

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

Trace Evidence - Charif Shanahan

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

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt - Raven Jackson

The Best Films of 2023 WBUR: Erin Trahan

Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese

The Best Films of 2023 WBUR: Sean Burns

Beau Is Afraid - Ari Aster

Best Films of 2023 Spectrum Culture

The Holdovers - Alexander Payne

Favorite Films of 2023 Baltimore Magazine: Max Weiss

Hijab Butch Blues - Lamya H.

Best Nonfiction of 2023 Electric Lit

Terrace Story - Hilary Leichter

Best Novels of 2023 Electric Lit

The Fraud - Zadie Smith

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