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.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
NPR Music: Bob Boilen: Top Ten Albums of 2018
La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Best Films of 2022
Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2022
Economist: Best Books of 2022
Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2022
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2015 Music
American Songwriter: Top 50 Albums of 2015
27 November 2015
American Songwriter
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Top 50 Albums of 2015
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Traveller
Chris Stapleton
Sprinter
TORRES
Something More Than Free
Jason Isbell
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Courtney Barnett
Complicated Game
James McMurtry
High on Tulsa Heat
John Moreland
Star Wars
Wilco
Faith In the Future
Craig Finn
Natalie Prass
Natalie Prass
Carrie & Lowell
Sufjan Stevens
To Pimp A Butterfly
Kendrick Lamar
Every Open Eye
Chvrches
Little Neon Limelight
Houndmouth
B’lieve I’m Goin Down…
Kurt Vile
Imaginary Man
Rayland Baxter
Pageant Material
Kacey Musgraves
All Your Favorite Bands
Dawes
The Blade
Ashley Monroe
Servant of Love
Patty Griffin
Sermon on the Rocks
Josh Ritter
Sound & Color
Alabama Shakes
All These Dreams
Andrew Combs
Nashville Obsolete
Dave Rawlings Machine
The Most Lamentable Tragedy
Titus Andronicus
Terraplane
Steve Earle & The Dukes
If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late
Drake
The Deslondes
The Deslondes
The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us
Beach Slang
All a Man Should Do
Lucero
Coming Home
Leon Bridges
Second Hand Heart
Dwight Yoakam
How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful
Florence + The Machine
Untethered Moon
Built to Spill
Fading Frontier
Deerhunter
Honeymoon
Lana Del Rey
On Your Own Love Again
Jessica Pratt
The Traveling Kind
Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
The Waterfall
My Morning Jacket
For Use and Delight
Promised Land Sound
Feels Like
Bully
In The Blazes
Aaron Lee Tasjan
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Adele
Pacific Surf Line
GospelbeacH
I Love You, Honeybear
Father John Misty
Wake
Nora Jane Struthers
The Phosphorescent Blues
Punch Brothers
The Trackless Woods
Iris DeMent
Didn’t He Ramble
Glen Hansard
No Cities To Love
Sleater-Kinney
Create Your Own Mythology
Kristin Diable