Year-End Lists

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

2021
Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen

The 5 Best Fiction Books of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Mark Athitakis

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) - Questlove

Favorite Movies of 2021 Barack Obama

How the Word Is Passed - Clint Smith

Favorite Books of 2021 Barack Obama

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert - Little Simz

Albums of the Year 2021 Clash

Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

The Best Books of 2021 Thrillist

On Freedom - Maggie Nelson

The 5 Best Books of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Jessica Ferri

Heaux Tales - Jazmine Sullivan

The 10 Best Albums of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Mikael Wood

Reservation Dogs

The 13 Best TV Shows of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Robert Lloyd

Home Video - Lucy Dacus

Top 10 Albums of 2021 NPR Music: Bob Boilen

Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Best Movies of 2021 Screen Slate: Chloe Lizotte

Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast

Top 20 Albums of 2021 Spectrum Culture

West Side Story - Steven Spielberg

Top 10 Movies of 2021 San Francisco Chronicle: Mick LaSalle

Hey What - Low

Top 50 Albums of 2021 Beats Per Minute

The Moon And Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers - Valerie June

Top 10 Albums of 2021 NPR Music: Ann Powers

Jubilee - Japanese Breakfast

Top 10 Albums of 2021 NPR Music: Marissa Lorusso

Drive My Car - Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Best Films of 2021 Film Comment Poll: Florence Almozini

Reservation Dogs

The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021 Hollywood Reporter: Angie Han

The Underground Railroad - Barry Jenkins

The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021 Hollywood Reporter: Daniel Fienberg

Infinite Country - Patricia Engel

The 10 Best Books of 2021 Entertainment Weekly

Glow On - Turnstile

The Best Albums of 2021 Flood

The 50 Best Books of 2021 Esquire

10 Best Albums of 2021 BBC Culture

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) - Questlove

The 10 Best Movies of 2021 Slate: Dana Stevens

Twenty Thousand Hertz

The 10 Best Podcasts of 2021 Entertainment Weekly