Year-End Lists

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

Renaissance - Beyoncé

Best Music of 2022 Rolling Stone: Brittany Spanos

No Bears - Jafar Panahi

Best Films of 2022 Financial Times: Danny Leigh

The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan

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

The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan

Favorite Novels of 2022 Electric Lit

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency - Chen Chen

Favorite Poetry Collections of 2022 Electric Lit

The Hurting Kind - Ada Limón

10 of the Best Poetry Collections of 2022 Book Riot: Connie Pan

The Banshees of Inisherin - Martin McDonagh

The Best Movies of 2022 Boston.com: Kevin Slane

Descendant - Margaret Brown

Favorite Movies of 2022 Barack Obama

Liberation Day - George Saunders

Favorite Books of 2022 Barack Obama

Aftersun - Charlotte Wells

Top 10 Films of 2022 Filmspotting: Josh Larsen

Aftersun - Charlotte Wells

Top 10 Films of 2022 Filmspotting: Adam Kempenaar

Midnights - Taylor Swift

The 100 Best Albums of 2022 Albumism

Let the Little Light Shine - Kevin Shaw

The Top 10 Best Movies of 2022 Chicago Tribune: Michael Phillips

Decision to Leave - Park Chan-wook

Films of the Year 2022 Screen: Wendy Ide

The Northman - Robert Eggers

Best Films of 2022 Spectrum Culture

The Books of Jacob - Olga Tokarczuk

The Best Fiction and Poetry of 2022 New Yorker

Strangers to Ourselves - Rachel Aviv

The Best Nonfiction of 2022 New Yorker