Year-End Lists

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

This is Not a Film - Jafar Panahi & Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

25 Best Films of 2011 David Ehrlich

Best Albums of 2011 Word

Bon Iver - Bon Iver

30 Best Pop & Rock Albums of 2011 Exclaim

House of Balloons - The Weeknd

Best Pop Albums of 2011 Washington Post: Chris Richards

Kaputt - Destroyer

25 Records Loved in 2011 Impose: Jason Diamond

Diamond Mine - King Creosote & Jon Hopkins

11 Favorite Albums of 2011 NPR Music: Bob Boilen

Diamond Mine - King Creosote & Jon Hopkins

10 Favorite Albums of 2011 NPR Music: Stephen Thompson

Let England Shake - PJ Harvey

10 Favorite Albums of 2011 NPR Music: Ann Powers

The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius

Best Films of 2011 Guardian: Peter Bradshaw

Sin Sin Sin - Le Butcherettes

40 Favorite Albums of 2011 Sound Opinions: Jim DeRogatis

12 Albums for 2011 Dummy

The Future - Miranda July

26 Best Films of 2011 New Yorker: Richard Brody

Far Side Virtual - James Ferraro

Top 50 Albums of 2011 The Wire

21 - Adele

50 Best Albums of 2011 Rolling Stone

Let England Shake - PJ Harvey

Best Albums of 2011 NME

The Hare with Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal

Books of the Year 2011 Atlantic: Benjamin Schwarz

Hugo - Martin Scorsese

Best Films of 2011 New Yorker: David Denby

Civilian - Wye Oak

Best Music of 2011 A.V. Club

Feel It Break - Austra

Top 10 Albums of 2011 New York: Nitsuh Abebe

Top 20 of 2011 Raven Sings the Blues

David Comes to Life - Fucked Up

50 Favorite Albums of 2011 NPR Music

Alexander McQueen - Andrew Bolton & others (text), Sølve Sundsbø (photographs)

Ten Best Books of 2011 Library Journal

Father, Son, Holy Ghost - Girls

Top 50 Albums of 2011 Stereogum

We Have a Pope - Nanni Moretti

Top Ten Films of 2011 Cahiers du Cinéma