Year-End Lists

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

Memoria - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Our Top 10 Films of 2021 Hyperallergic

Heaux Tales - Jazmine Sullivan

The Best Albums of 2021 Vinyl Me, Please

La Brega

The Best Podcasts of 2021 New Yorker: Sarah Larson

Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney

The Best Books Of 2021 BuzzFeed

New Long Leg - Dry Cleaning

The 50 Best Albums of 2021 Far Out

All That She Carried - Tiya Miles

20 Favorite New Books of 2021 St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Petite Maman - Céline Sciamma

Films of 2021 The Skinny

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

Top Ten Albums of 2021 The Skinny

The Best Books of 2021 Economist

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

Best Literary Fiction of 2021 Library Journal

Pilgrim Bell - Kaveh Akbar

Best Poetry of 2021 Library Journal

Returning the Sword to the Stone - Mark Leidner

The Best Poetry of 2021 New York Times: Elisa Gabbert

Great Circle - Maggie Shipstead

The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021 Time: Annabel Gutterman

Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen

The Best Books of 2021 USA Today

Call Me If You Get Lost - Tyler, The Creator

The Best Albums of 2021 The Philadelphia Inquirer: Dan DeLuca

Promises - Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra

Our 50 Favourite Albums of 2021 Vinyl Factory

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

Top 10 Albums of 2021 BBC Radio 6 Music

Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

The 50 Best Films of 2021 Slant

If God Is a Virus - Seema Yasmin

Best Poetry of 2021 New York Public Library

Seventeen Going Under - Sam Fender

The 50 Best Albums of 2021 NME

The Great British Bake Off

The Best TV Shows of 2021 Polygon

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

Top 10 Books of 2021 KCRW: Michael Silverblatt

Nurture - Porter Robinson

The 50 Best Albums of 2021 Our Culture

Outside Child - Allison Russell

The Best Albums of 2021 Variety: Chris Willman