Year-End Lists

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

Bright Green Field - Squid

Les Inrocks Top 25 Albums of 2021

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

Exclaim 50 Best Albums of 2021

Bewilderment - Richard Powers

Shelf Awareness Best Books of 2021

WandaVision

Justin Kirkland: Esquire The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar - Josh Greenbaum

Decider Best Movies of 2021

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

New York Times The 10 Best Books of 2021

Punch Me Up to the Gods - Brian Broome

Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2021

Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney

Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2021

Hacks

Decider Best TV of 2021

Minari - Lee Isaac Chung

Economist The Best Films of 2021

If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power - Halsey

Uproxx The Best Albums Of 2021

New Long Leg - Dry Cleaning

Glide 20 Best Albums of 2021

Promises - Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra

Paste The 50 Best Albums of 2021

A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib

Christopher Borrelli: Chicago Tribune Best of Books 2021

First Cow - Kelly Reichardt

Cahiers du Cinéma Top Ten Films of 2021

The Underground Railroad - Barry Jenkins

Ben Travers: IndieWire The Best TV Shows of 2021

The Root The 10 Best Shows of 2021

Ignorance - The Weather Station

Amanda Petrusich: New Yorker The Best Music of 2021

Fortitude - Gojira

Revolver 25 Best Albums of 2021

The Sentence - Louise Erdrich

Chicago Public Library Top 10 Books of 2021

How the Word Is Passed - Clint Smith

New York Public Library Top 10 Books of 2021

No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021

Torn Arteries - Carcass

Decibel Top 40 Albums of 2021

Finding the Mother Tree - Suzanne Simard

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021