Year-End Lists

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

2021
First Cow - Kelly Reichardt

Top Ten Films of 2021 Cahiers du Cinéma

The Underground Railroad - Barry Jenkins

The Best TV Shows of 2021 IndieWire: Ben Travers

The 10 Best Shows of 2021 The Root

Ignorance - The Weather Station

The Best Music of 2021 New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich

Fortitude - Gojira

25 Best Albums of 2021 Revolver

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

Top 10 Books of 2021 Chicago Public Library

How the Word Is Passed - Clint Smith

Top 10 Books of 2021 New York Public Library

Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

100 Notable Books of 2021 New York Times

Torn Arteries - Carcass

Top 40 Albums of 2021 Decibel

Girlhood - Melissa Febos

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021 Washington Post

Intimacies - Katie Kitamura

50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021 Washington Post

Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

The 10 Best Books of 2021 Washington Post

Hell of a Book - Jason Mott

Fiction 2021 National Book Award

All That She Carried - Tiya Miles

Nonfiction 2021 National Book Award

Floaters - Martín Espada

Poetry 2021 National Book Award

US Albums of the Year 2021 Rough Trade

Promises - Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra

The 75 Best Albums of 2021 Mojo

Hacks

The 19 Best TV Shows of 2021 Vogue

Second Place - Rachel Cusk

10 Best Books of 2021 Publishers Weekly

The Essential June Jordan - June Jordan

Best Poetry Books of 2021 Publishers Weekly

Ignorance - The Weather Station

75 Best Albums of 2021 Uncut

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

20 Favorite Books of 2021 Oprah Daily

Empire of Pain - Patrick Radden Keefe

The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 Powell's Books

Sterling Karat Gold - Isabel Waidner

Best Fiction of 2021 Goldsmiths Prize