Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.

Slate: Dana Stevens: Top 15 Movies of 2015

24 December 2015

Dana Stevens: Top 15 Movies of 2015, as published by Slate

[see also 202320222021202020192018201720162014201320122011]

Top Ten, in alphabetical order

Runners-Up, in alphabetical order

Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan: 11 Best Books of 2015

24 December 2015

Maureen Corrigan: 11 Best Books of 2015 (as aired on NPR’s Fresh Air)

[see also 202320222021202020192018201720162011]

Entertainment Weekly: 11 Best Books of 2015

24 December 2015

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Entertainment Weekly: 11 Best Books of 2015

[see also 2022202120202010s2019201820172016]

Lisa Schwarzbaum: 20 Favorite Movies of 2015

24 December 2015

Lisa Schwarzbaum: 20 Favorite Movies of 2015 (as posted on Twitter in this series of tweets: 1, 2, 3, 4)

[see also 2012]

Dennis Cooper: 23 Favorite Poetry Books of 2015

24 December 2015

Dennis Cooper: 23 Favorite Poetry Books of 2015

[see also 20192018201720162012]

Vulture: Bilge Ebiri: 20 Best Movies of 2015

24 December 2015

Bilge Ebiri: 20 Best Movies of 2015, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 20232022202120202019201720162012]

Honorable Mentions

FasterLouder: 50 Best Albums of 2015

24 December 2015

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

FasterLouder: 50 Best Albums of 2015

[see also 20122011]

Variety Survey: Ben Kenigsberg: 10 Best Films of 2015

24 December 2015

Phoenix - Christian Petzold

Ben Kenigsberg: 10 Best Films of 2015, as submitted to the Variety Survey

[see also 2022202120192018201720162014201320122011]

New Yorker: Dan Chiasson: 12 Favorite Poetry Books of 2015

24 December 2015

Dan Chiasson: 12 Favorite Poetry Books of 2015, as published by The New Yorker, and also including “books about poets, books of prose by poets, and other marginal cases”

[see also 201820172016]

Cokemachineglow: 10 Favorite Albums of 2015

23 December 2015

Garden of Delete - Oneohtrix Point Never

Cokemachineglow has assembled a variety of ways to find some of the music their staff loved most this year. Below are the albums labeled “Unison” — representing the staff as a whole — but browse also their “Harmony” of individual voices.

[see also 2014201320122011]