Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2023
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2023
Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade
New Yorker: Richard Brody: 30 Best Movies of 2015
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2020 Music
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2020
27 January 2021
Robert Christgau
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Dean's List 2020
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Hanging Tree Guitars
various artists
RTJ4
Run the Jewels
Dakhla Sahara Session
Cheveu & Group Doueh
Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Fiona Apple
Good Souls Better Angels
Lucinda Williams
Deviancy
Backxwash
Billy Nomates
Billy Nomates
Color TV
Dramarama
The Balladeer
Lori McKenna
Ghosts
Wussy
Streams of Thought, Vol. 2
Black Thought
Demo '84
Peter Stampfel And The Bottle Caps
Day of the Tiles
The Human Hearts
Thoughts Lined Up
Martin Creed
Southside
Sam Hunt
Rough and Rowdy Ways
Bob Dylan
Herstory in the Making
Young M.A
Nirvana
Bktherula
What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?
Public Enemy
Evermore
Taylor Swift
Haunted Painting
Sad13
Set Sela
Guiss Guiss Bou Bess
Never Will
Ashley McBryde
Perfect Game
McCarthy Trenching
Live at Tubby's
75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band
Mama's Biscuits
Kirby Heard
Streams of Thought, Vol. 3: Cane & Able
Black Thought
Music to Be Murdered By
Eminem
The Prettiest Curse
Hinds
Amazones Power
Les Amazones d’Afrique
Twix and Dive
Yonic South
Gaslighter
The Chicks
Streams of Thought, Vol. 1
Black Thought
Aftermath
Elizabeth Cook
Saint Cloud
Waxahatchee
Alphabetland
X
With Greg from Deerhoof
Serengeti
Women in Music Pt. III
Haim
Your Life Is a Record
Brandy Clark
Everything is Beautiful
Princess Nokia
On The Road: A Tribute To John Hartford
various artists
It Was Good Until It Wasn't
Kehlani
If We Make It Through December
Phoebe Bridgers
Generations
Will Butler
Recorded Live at the Machine Shop Recording Studio
Sunny Sweeney
New Orleans Mambo
various artists
So When You Gonna...
Dream Wife
The Pandemic Songs
Hamell On Trial
Private Lives
Low Cut Connie
In the Wake of Memories
Mukdad Rothenberg Lankow
City on Lock
City Girls
Forever Just Beyond
Clem Snide
Flyover Country
Chicago Farmer
Pretty Free
Justin Farren
Munson-Hicks Party Supplies
Munson-Hicks Party Supplies
A Hero's Death
Fontaines D.C.
Descendants of Cain
Ka
Got to Be Tough
Toots and the Maytals
Anime, Trauma and Divorce
Open Mike Eagle
The Unraveling
Drive-By Truckers
Goons Be Gone
No Age
Funeral
Lil Wayne
No. 1
Etran de L'Aïr
Pray for Paris
Westside Gunn
Alone Together Sessions
Hayes Carll
2020 Revision
Dawn Oberg
Ajai
Serengeti and Kenny Segal
Here To Stay
Grrrl Gang
United Earth League of Quarantine Aerobics
Chad Matheny
Tombouctou
Al Bilali Soudan
Patience
Mannequin Pussy