Year-End Lists

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

2022
Quiet - Victoria Adukwei Bulley

The Best Poetry Books of 2022 New Statesman: Ellen Peirson-Hagger

The Illustrated Woman - Helen Mort

The Best Poetry Books of 2022 Guardian

The Spur - Joan Shelley

2022 Year in Review Aquarium Drunkard

The Banshees of Inisherin - Martin McDonagh

Best Movies of 2022 Salt Lake City Weekly: Scott Renshaw

Living Torch - Kali Malone

Our Favorite Albums, 2022 Tone Glow

Hellfire - black midi

The Best Music of 2022 GCN: Steve Erickson

We're All Going to the World's Fair - Jane Schoenbrun

Top Films of 2022 GCN: Steve Erickson

Aethiopes - Billy Woods

2022 in Music Sasha Frere-Jones

Renaissance - Beyoncé

The 12 Best Albums of 2022 Wired: Jason Parham

Everything Everywhere All at Once - Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

The 10 Best Movies of 2022 Good Morning America: Peter Travers

Ugly Season - Perfume Genius

Eight of the Best Queer Albums of 2022 Autostraddle: Julie Gentile

Hit the Road - Panah Panahi

The 50 Best Movies of 2022 Paste

The Balcony Movie - Paweł Łoziński

Top Ten Films of 2022 Clémence Polès

Painless - Nilüfer Yanya

Top Ten Albums of 2022 Clémence Polès

Renaissance - Beyoncé

Best Music of 2022 Rolling Stone: Brittany Spanos

Decision to Leave - Park Chan-wook

Best Films of 2022 Financial Times: Danny Leigh

The Employees - Olga Ravn

The 12 Best Books of 2022 Wired

I Walked With You A Ways - Plains

Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2022 No Depression

Weather Alive - Beth Orton

Top 20 Albums of 2022 Spectrum Culture

Top Gun: Maverick - Joseph Kosinski

The Best Movies Of 2022 Uproxx

Renaissance - Beyoncé

Albums Of The Year 2022 Clash

Saint Omer - Alice Diop

Top 50 Movies of 2022 Jessica Kiang

De todas las flores - Natalia Lafourcade

Top 50 Albums of 2022 The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano

Body Work - Melissa Febos

Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022 Electric Lit