Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Highlights

Music
Manning Fireworks - MJ Lenderman

New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich The Best Albums of 2024

Movies
Misericordia - Alain Guiraudie

Cahiers du Cinéma Top Ten Films of 2024

Movies
No Other Land - Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor

Artforum: J Hoberman Best Films of 2024

TV Shows
What We Do in the Shadows

New York Times: Margaret Lyons Best TV Shows That Ended in 2024

TV Shows
Babylon Berlin

New York Times: Mike Hale Best International TV Shows of 2024

TV Shows
We Are Lady Parts

New York Times: James Poniewozik Best TV Shows of 2024

Movies
Nickel Boys - RaMell Ross

New York Times: Alissa Wilkinson Best Movies of 2024

Movies
All We Imagine as Light - Payal Kapadia

New York Times: Manohla Dargis Best Movies of 2024

Music
My Light, My Destroyer - Cassandra Jenkins

Loud And Quiet Albums of the Year 2024

Music
Romance - Fontaines D.C.

Independent The Best Albums of 2024

Books
Libby Lost and Found - Stephanie Booth

Book Riot Best Books of 2024

Movies
I Saw the TV Glow - Jane Schoenbrun

Them The 18 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2024

Books
The Light Eaters - Zoë Schlanger

New York Public Library Best Books of 2024

Music
Short n' Sweet - Sabrina Carpenter

Spin Albums of the Year 2024

Music
Diamond Jubilee - Cindy Lee

Exclaim 50 Best Albums of 2024

Movies
Misericordia - Alain Guiraudie

Les Inrocks Our Top Films of 2024

Music
Romance - Fontaines D.C.

Les Inrocks Best Albums of 2024

Movies
Wicked - Jon M. Chu

Wall Street Journal: Kyle Smith The Best Movies of 2024

Poetry
Bluff - Danez Smith

Financial Times: Maria Crawford Best Poetry of 2024

Books
The Anthropologists - Aysegül Savas

Vanity Fair 21 Best Books of 2024

TV Shows
The Traitors

W The Best TV Shows of 2024

Books
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here - Jonathan Blitzer

Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli 10 of the Best Books of 2024

Books
Rejection - Tony Tulathimutte

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024

Books
The Age of Magical Overthinking - Amanda Montell

BookPage The Best Nonfiction of 2024

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Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, I make no tallies.