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

So Beautiful or So What

by Paul Simon

Lists

  1. New York Times: Jon Pareles: Top 10 Albums of 2011
  2. Rolling Stone: 50 Best Albums of 2011
  3. Minneapolis Star Tribune: Jon Bream: Top 10 Albums of 2011
  4. Sonic: Best Albums of 2011
  5. New York Times: Ben Ratliff: Top 10 Albums of 2011
  6. Globe and Mail: Brad Wheeler: Top 10 Albums of 2011
  7. Slate: Jody Rosen: 10 Favorite Albums of 2011
  8. American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2011
  9. Austin Chronicle: Austin Powell: Top 10 Albums of 2011
  10. Los Angeles Times: Margaret Wappler: Top 10 Albums of 2011
  11. Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2011
  12. A.V. Club: Best Music of 2011
  13. Mojo: Best Albums of 2011
  14. Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
  15. PopMatters: 75 Best Albums of 2011

Recent Lists

By Year

By Category

Trending Works

Archive

About

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