Mavis Staples - Year-End Lists

Sad and Beautiful World
- The Best Albums of 2025: David Hajdu: The Nation
- Best Albums of 2025: Lindsay Zoladz: New York Times And the next 10
- 20 Best Albums of 2025: Glide Honorable mention
- Favorite Albums of 2025: Wilco
We Get By
- Best Albums of 2019: Glide Honorable mention
- Top 25 Albums of 2019: American Songwriter Other Great Albums of 2019
If All I Was Was Black
- 10 Favorite Albums of 2017: Greg Kot: Chicago Tribune: Sound Opinions
- Best Albums of 2017: No Depression
One True Vine
- #21 Top 50 Albums of 2013: Mojo
- 2013 Year in Review: Aquarium Drunkard
- The 110 Best Albums of the 2010s: Albumism