Year-End Lists

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

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Jim DeRogatis: WBEZ: Top 40 Albums of 2012
IndieWire: Best Films of 2011
Richard Brody: New Yorker: 27 Best Movies of 2012
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Negroland

A Memoir

by Margo Jefferson

Appears on three lists

15 Best Books of 2015: Maria Popova
The 17 Best Books of the 2010s: Town & Country

10 Best Books of 2015: Washington Post

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 40 Albums of 2012 Jim DeRogatis · WBEZ · Sound Opinions
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
27 Best Movies of 2012 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Movies of 2020 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Movies of 2020 Eric Kohn · IndieWire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2011 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Fiction of 2025 Maria Crawford · Financial Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

$uccessor Dedekind Cut
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
amor de encava WEED420
Farming Ted Hearne / The Crossing / Donald Nally
Mannequin Pussy Mannequin Pussy
Mudboy Sheck Wes
One Deep River Mark Knopfler
Torch Song Radiator Hospital
Bodies and Control and Money and Power Priests
The Highwomen The Highwomen
The Whole Thing Is Just There Young Jesus
The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto Benjamin Wallace
Jinpa Pema Tseden
Toho Sara 東方沙羅 Toho Sara

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