Year-End Lists

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

Carsie Blanton

Love & Rage
1. Dean's List 2021: Robert Christgau
Buck Up
1. Top 10 Albums of 2019: Ken Tucker: NPR: Fresh Air
2. Dean's List 2019: Robert Christgau

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Southernmost Leo Boix
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.