Year-End Lists

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

2021
Bright Green Field - Squid

Les Inrocks: Top 25 Albums of 2021

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

Exclaim: 50 Best Albums of 2021

WandaVision

Esquire: Justin Kirkland: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar - Josh Greenbaum

Decider: Best Movies of 2021

No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2021

Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

Kirkus Reviews: Best Fiction Books of 2021

All That She Carried - Tiya Miles

Kirkus Reviews: Best Nonfiction Books of 2021

Hacks

Decider: Best TV of 2021

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) - Questlove

Economist: The Best Films of 2021

Whole Lotta Red - Playboi Carti

Uproxx: The Best Albums Of 2021

Bright Green Field - Squid

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

Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli: Best of Books 2021

First Cow - Kelly Reichardt

Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2021

The Underground Railroad - Barry Jenkins

IndieWire: Ben Travers: The Best TV Shows of 2021

The Root: The 10 Best Shows of 2021

Ignorance - The Weather Station

New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich: The Best Music of 2021

Fortitude - Gojira

Revolver: 25 Best Albums of 2021

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

Chicago Public Library: Top 10 Books of 2021

How the Word Is Passed - Clint Smith

New York Public Library: Top 10 Books of 2021

Intimacies - Katie Kitamura

New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2021

Torn Arteries - Carcass

Decibel: Top 40 Albums of 2021

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021

The Magician - Colm Tóibín

Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021

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

Washington Post: The 10 Best Books of 2021

Hell of a Book - Jason Mott

National Book Award: Fiction 2021

All That She Carried - Tiya Miles

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2021

Floaters - Martín Espada

National Book Award: Poetry 2021

Rough Trade: US Albums of the Year 2021

Promises - Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra

Mojo: The 75 Best Albums of 2021

Hacks

Vogue: The 19 Best TV Shows of 2021

Assembly - Natasha Brown

Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2021

The Essential June Jordan - June Jordan

Publishers Weekly: Best Poetry Books of 2021

Ignorance - The Weather Station

Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2021

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

Oprah Daily: 20 Favorite Books of 2021

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

Powell's Books: The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021

Sterling Karat Gold - Isabel Waidner

Goldsmiths Prize: Best Fiction of 2021

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev - Dawnie Walton

Powell's Books: The 18 Best Novels of 2021

The Promise - Damon Galgut

The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2021

First Cow - Kelly Reichardt

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Ten Best Films of 2021

Punch Me Up to the Gods - Brian Broome

Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2021

Harrow - Joy Williams

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2021

The Card Counter - Paul Schrader

Jordan Cronk: Top Ten Films of 2021

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

Women's Prize: Best Fiction of 2021

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli

Dublin Literary Award: 2021

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies - Deesha Philyaw

PEN/Faulkner Award: Fiction 2021