Year-End Lists

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

Jim Shepard

Phase Six
- 15 Favorite Books of 2021: A.V. Club
The Book of Aron
- 10 Best Books of 2015: Washington Post
- Fiction 2015: Kirkus Reviews: Kirkus Prize

Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top Ten Films of 2022 Clémence Polès Farhang
Best Films of 2022 Elena Lazic · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top Ten Films of 2022 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2022 Cinema Scope
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2022 David Ehrlich
Top Ten Films of 2022 Brian Darr · Senses of Cinema · Senses of Cinema World Poll

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