Year-End Lists

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

Benedetta - Paul Verhoeven

Top 25 Movies of 2021 Rolling Stone: K. Austin Collins

Heaux Tales - Jazmine Sullivan

The 8 Best Albums of 2021 Wired: Jason Parham

If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power - Halsey

Top 10 Albums of 2021 Rolling Stone: Brittany Spanos

The 25 Best TV Shows of 2021 A.V. Club

The White Lotus - Mike White

Best Television of 2021 Passerby

Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast

Best Albums of 2021 Passerby

Happy Hour - Marlowe Granados

Best Books of 2021 Passerby

The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion

Best Films of 2021 Passerby

The Best TV Shows of 2021 ScreenCrush

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar - Josh Greenbaum

The Best Movies of 2021 ScreenCrush: Matt Singer

It's a Sin

The 50 Best TV Shows of 2021 Guardian

The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion

The 50 Best Films of 2021 Guardian

Raise The Roof - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Top 40 Rock Albums of 2021 Ultimate Classic Rock

The Best TV of 2021 New Statesman: Rachel Cooke

The Best Films of 2021 New Statesman: Ryan Gilbey

Call Me If You Get Lost - Tyler, The Creator

The Best Albums of 2021 New Statesman

Orwell's Roses - Rebecca Solnit

Best Books of 2021 New Statesman

Home Video - Lucy Dacus

Ten of the Best Albums Released by Queer and Trans Artists in 2021 Autostraddle: Abeni Jones

The Worst Person in the World - Joachim Trier

Best Films of 2021 Susannah Gruder

Little Oblivions - Julien Baker

Top 10 Albums of 2021 Slate: Carl Wilson

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

The 100 Best Albums of 2021 Albumism

The French Dispatch - Wes Anderson

The Best Films of 2021 A.V. Club

2021 Faves Girish Shambu

Sour - Olivia Rodrigo

The 45 Best Albums of 2021 The Forty-Five

Titane - Julia Ducournau

The 30 Best Films of 2021 Little White Lies

The Worst Person in the World - Joachim Trier

Best Films of 2021 AP: Jake Coyle

The Lost Daughter - Maggie Gyllenhaal

Best Films of 2021 AP: Lindsey Bahr

For All Mankind

Best TV Shows of 2021 USA Today: Kelly Lawler

First Cow - Kelly Reichardt

The 10 Best Films of 2021 Independent: Clarisse Loughrey

The Power of the Dog - Jane Campion

Favorite Films of 2021 Baltimore Magazine: Max Weiss

Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast

Best Albums of 2021 Uproxx Music Critics Poll

Montero - Lil Nas X

The Best Albums of 2021 Dazed

Dune - Denis Villeneuve

The Best Movies Of 2021 Uproxx

Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

The Best Movies of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Justin Chang

Blue Weekend - Wolf Alice

Best Albums of 2021 DIY

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

The 5 Best Novels of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Bethanne Patrick

Memoria - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Best Films of 2021 Film Comment Poll

Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Best Movies of 2021 Screen Slate

Pilgrim Bell - Kaveh Akbar

Favorite Poetry Collections of 2021 Electric Lit

Prioritise Pleasure - Self Esteem

The 50 Best Albums of 2021 Guardian

New Long Leg - Dry Cleaning

The 10 Best Albums of 2021 Atlantic: Spencer Kornhaber

The Agitators - Dorothy Wickenden

The 5 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Mary Ann Gwinn

Afterparties - Anthony Veasna So

The 5 Best Fiction Books of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Mark Athitakis

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

Favorite Movies of 2021 Barack Obama

Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen

Favorite Books of 2021 Barack Obama

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

Albums of the Year 2021 Clash

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

The Best Books of 2021 Thrillist

No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

The 5 Best Books of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Jessica Ferri