Year-End Lists

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

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NPR: 50 Favorite Albums of 2011
Benjamin Schwarz: Atlantic: Books of the Year 2011
Denis Côté: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Films of 2015
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Sontag

Her Life and Work

by Benjamin Moser

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The Best Books of 2019: O Magazine

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Best Films of 2015 Denis Côté · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Books of the Year 2011 Benjamin Schwarz · Atlantic
Top 5 Films of 2012 Kate Muir · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
50 Favorite Albums of 2011 NPR · NPR Music
Best Films of 2015 Robert Koehler · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2016 Sam Weisberg · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
Best Films of 2014 Roger Koza · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2011 Fly
The Best Movies of the 2010s Decade Matt Patches · Polygon
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 100 Albums of 2014 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Best Films of 2016 Adrian Martin · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
25 Best Albums of 2012 Death and Taxes

Trending Works

Collapse Aphex Twin
$uccessor Dedekind Cut
La grazia Paolo Sorrentino
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Master Slave Husband Wife Ilyon Woo
Decadence and Decay Silver Talon
Renaissance Beyoncé
The Other Slavery Andrés Reséndez
As You Were Liam Gallagher
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Honey Samia
Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck
The Haunted Wood Sam Leith
Floating Features La Luz

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