Year-End Lists

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

Art Angels - Grimes

Greg Kot: Chicago Tribune Top 20 Albums of 2015

Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit - Courtney Barnett

Jim DeRogatis: WBEZ 40 Favorite Albums of 2015

Chi-Raq - Spike Lee

Amy Nicholson: LA Weekly Top 10 Films of 2015

Currents - Tame Impala

Kitty Empire: Observer Top 10 Albums of 2015

Mark Kermode: Observer Top 10 Films of 2015

Cemetery of Splendor - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Les Inrocks Top 20 Films of 2015

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

Shelf Awareness 2015 Best Books of the Year

Chi-Raq - Spike Lee

Richard Brody: New Yorker 30 Best Movies of 2015

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

Flood Best Music of 2015

Goon - Tobias Jesso Jr.

Les Inrocks 100 Best Albums of 2015

Slant 50 Best Films of 2015

Brooklyn - John Crowley

Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times 14 Best Films of 2015

IndieWire 66 Best Films of 2015

AllMusic 55 Best Albums of 2015

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

Slant 25 Best Albums of 2015

Brooklyn - John Crowley

Joshua Rothkopf: Time Out New York 20 Best Movies of 2015

Timbuktu - Abderrahmane Sissako

A.O. Scott: New York Times 20 Best Movies of 2015

Carol - Todd Haynes

Stephen Holden: New York Times 18 Best Movies of 2015

Mad Max: Fury Road - George Miller

Manohla Dargis: New York Times 37 Best Movies of 2015

Spotlight - Tom McCarthy

Ann Hornaday: Washington Post 29 Best Films of 2015

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

Entertainment Weekly 40 Best Albums of 2015

The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Center for Fiction 2015 First Novel Prize

Beauty Is a Wound - Eka Kurniawan

Powell's Books Best Fiction Books of 2015

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

NPR 50 Favorite Albums of 2015