Year-End Lists

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

All of Us Strangers - Andrew Haigh

Filmspotting: Adam Kempenaar Top 10 Films of 2023

May December - Todd Haynes

Little White Lies The 30 Best Films of 2023

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

Shelf Awareness 2023 Best Books of the Year

The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We - Mitski

Passerby Best Albums of 2023

Working Girl - Sophia Giovannitti

Passerby Best Books of 2023

Past Lives - Celine Song

Passerby Best Films of 2023

everything is alive - Slowdive

Spectrum Culture Top 20 Albums of 2023

That! Feels Good! - Jessie Ware

Daily Mail: Adrian Thrills Best Albums of 2023

To 2040 - Jorie Graham

Guardian: Rishi Dastidar Best Poetry Books of 2023

A Fever in the Heartland - Timothy Egan

California Review of Books 10 Best Books of 2023

The Omnichord Real Book - Meshell Ndegeocello

Albumism The 50 Best Albums of 2023

Guardian The 50 Best TV Shows of 2023

chaos takes the wheel and i am a passenger - awakebutstillinbed

Uproxx: Ian Cohen The Best Emo Albums Of 2023

American Fiction - Cord Jefferson

WBUR: Erin Trahan The Best Films of 2023

Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese

WBUR: Sean Burns The Best Films of 2023

Afire - Christian Petzold

Spectrum Culture Best Films of 2023

The Holdovers - Alexander Payne

Baltimore Magazine: Max Weiss Favorite Films of 2023

Hijab Butch Blues - Lamya H.

Electric Lit Best Nonfiction of 2023

Forgive Me Not - Jennifer Baker

Electric Lit Best Novels of 2023

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride

Vox: Constance Grady The Very Best Books of 2023

I Hope You Can Forgive Me - Madison McFerrin

San Francisco Chronicle: Adrian Spinelli Best Albums of 2023

Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese

Independent: Clarisse Loughrey The Best Films of 2023

Javelin - Sufjan Stevens

Entertainment Weekly The Best Albums of 2023

Killers of the Flower Moon - Martin Scorsese

Glenn Kenny The Top Forty-Five Films Of 2023