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
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2023
Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2023
The Ringer: Adam Nayman: The Best Movies of 2022
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
Town & Country: The 17 Best Books of the 2010s
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2022 Music
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2022
25 January 2023
Robert Christgau
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Dean's List 2022
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Bunch One
Selo i Ludy Performance Band
Renaissance
Beyoncé
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
Big Thief
A Beautiful Time
Willie Nelson
I Walked With You A Ways
Plains
Lindeville
Ashley McBryde
King Of Drums
Buck 65
Scorpion Kings
DJ Maphorisa & Kabza De Small
Black & Loud: James Brown Reimagined By Stro Elliot
Stro Elliot/James Brown
Live: Return Of The Storyteller
Todd Snider
Uwami
DJ Black Low
Harry's House
Harry Styles
Archeology
Montparnasse Musique
I Thought I Was Fine
Tommy Womack
I Can't Sell These
Homeboy Sandman
For Executive Meeting
The Paranoid Style
Palomino
Miranda Lambert
Take It Like a Man
Amanda Shires
Slum of Legs
Slum of Legs
Solidaritine
Gogol Bordello
De Kaboul A Bamako
Sowal Diabi
Love for Sale
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga
to hell with it
PinkPantheress
Língua Brasileira
Tom Zé
Comfort To Me
Amyl and The Sniffers
Folk And Great Tunes From Siberia and Far East
various artists
Bleed Out
The Mountain Goats
That's My Idea
My Idea
Narrow Line
Mama's Broke
Welcome 2 Club XIII
Drive-By Truckers
Good Luck, Take Care
Terry Klein
When That Really Old Cat Dies
Jeffrey Lewis
The Lakes of Zones B and C
Emperor X
Sanguine Truth
The Casual Dots
Cheat Codes
Danger Mouse and Black Thought
Wet Leg
Wet Leg
Don't Feed The Monster
Homeboy Sandman
Mata
M.I.A.
Just Like That...
Bonnie Raitt
A Legacy of Rentals
Craig Finn
TV Baby
Pony
Ama Gogela
Phelimuncasi
We Are
Jon Batiste
No Thank You
Little Simz
Bamanan
Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee
It Wasn't Hard To Love You
Fanfare Ciocarlia
Expert in a Dying Field
The Beths
Timbuktu
Oumou Sangaré
Special
Lizzo
Burkina Hakili
Kady Diarra
Spirituals
Santigold
Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
Kendrick Lamar
Cry Mfer
My Idea
Hata Unacheza: Sub-Saharan Acoustic Guitar & String Music, ca. 1960s
various artists
Breaking The Thermometer
Leyla McCalla
Co-Starring Too
Ray Wylie Hubbard
The Big Five--O
Derek Senn
Peculiar, Missouri
Willi Carlisle
N'Djila Wa Mudujimu
Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane's Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa
Dollar Menu 4
Mach-Hommy
Wild Loneliness
Superchunk
All Is Ours, Nothing Is Theirs
Dan Ex Machina
Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine, Vol. 2
various artists
Agadez
Etran de L'Aïr
Things Happen That Way
Dr. John
Natural Brown Prom Queen
Sudan Archives
There's No Fight We Can't Both Win
Mammoth Penguins
Planet Her
Doja Cat
Flood
Stella Donnelly
The Overload
Yard Act
Lifetime Achievement
Loudon Wainwright III
Sakidila
Pongo
A Gift to Pops: The Wonderful World of Louis Armstrong All Stars
various artists
Bahil Weg
Kassmasse
Home, Before and After
Regina Spektor
Ramona Park Broke My Heart
Vince Staples
There In Spirit
Homeboy Sandman
Holy Souls
Fox Green
King's Disease II
Nas
I Don't Give a Fuck About This Rap Shit, Imma Just Drop Until I Don't Feel Like It Anymore
$ilkmoney
Good Morning Gorgeous
Mary J. Blige
Lunar Tredd
Fimber Bravo
Half God
Wiki
Bra-Less
Doechii