Year-End Lists

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

Elle - Paul Verhoeven

Top 10 Films of 2016 Les Inrocks: Murielle Joudet

Heal the Living - Katell Quillévéré

Top 10 Films of 2016 Les Inrocks: Emily Barnett

Elle - Paul Verhoeven

Top 20 Films of 2016 Les Inrocks

The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

Top Ten Books of 2016 Chicago Public Library

Krisha - Trey Edward Shults

10 Best Films of 2016 Artforum: John Waters

My Woman - Angel Olsen

Top 50 Albums of 2016 American Songwriter

Blackstar - David Bowie

50 Best Albums of 2016 Paste

Blackstar - David Bowie

50 Best Albums of 2016 Les Inrocks

Skeleton Tree - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Top Albums of 2016 Sound Opinions: Greg Kot

Skeleton Tree - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Albums of the Year 2016 Crack Magazine

Lemonade - Beyoncé

50 Best Albums of 2016 Rolling Stone

The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

The 10 Best Books of 2016 Washington Post

The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

Fiction 2016 National Book Award

Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X. Kendi

Nonfiction 2016 National Book Award

The Performance of Becoming Human - Daniel Borzutzky

Poetry 2016 National Book Award

Solar Bones - Mike McCormack

Best Fiction of 2016 Goldsmiths Prize

In the Darkroom - Susan Faludi

Nonfiction 2016 Kirkus Prize

The Sport of Kings - C.E. Morgan

Fiction 2016 Kirkus Prize

The Sellout - Paul Beatty

Best Fiction of 2016 The Booker Prize

The Glorious Heresies - Lisa McInerney

Best Fiction of 2016 Women's Prize

Cemetery of Splendor - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Top Ten Films of 2015 Cinema Scope

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

Top 100 Albums of 2015 Pazz & Jop

47 Noteworthy Films of 2015 Glenn Kenny

50 Best Books of 2015 St. Louis Post-Dispatch