Year-End Lists

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

Lorraine Ali: Los Angeles Times The 11 Best TV Shows of 2021

The Underground Railroad - Barry Jenkins

Matt Zoller Seitz: New York The Best TV of 2021

We Are Lady Parts

Roxana Hadadi: New York The Best TV of 2021

Station Eleven

Kathryn VanArendonk: New York The Best TV of 2021

We Are Lady Parts

Jen Chaney: New York The Best TV of 2021

Heaux Tales - Jazmine Sullivan

Craig Jenkins: New York The Best Albums of 2021

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

The Line of Best Fit The Best Albums of 2021 Ranked

Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead

Lit Hub Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021

Outside Child - Allison Russell

Marissa R. Moss: Stereogum The 10 Best Country Albums Of 2021

Maureen Corrigan: NPR 2021 Best Books

The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion

IndieWire Best Films of 2021

Glow On - Turnstile

Spin The 30 Best Albums Of 2021

Memoria - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Hyperallergic Our Top 10 Films of 2021

Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast

Vinyl Me, Please The Best Albums of 2021

9/12

Sarah Larson: New Yorker The Best Podcasts of 2021

The Sentence - Louise Erdrich

BuzzFeed The Best Books Of 2021

New Long Leg - Dry Cleaning

Far Out The 50 Best Albums of 2021

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

St. Louis Post-Dispatch 20 Favorite New Books of 2021

Petite Maman - Céline Sciamma

The Skinny Films of 2021

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

The Skinny Top Ten Albums of 2021

Economist The Best Books of 2021

Matrix - Lauren Groff

Library Journal Best Literary Fiction of 2021

Floaters - Martín Espada

Library Journal Best Poetry of 2021

Returning the Sword to the Stone - Mark Leidner

Elisa Gabbert: New York Times The Best Poetry of 2021