Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.

Paste: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s

10 October 2019

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

Paste Magazine: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s

[see also 2023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011]

Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s

09 October 2019

Blond - Frank Ocean

Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s

[see also 2023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011]

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Uproxx: The Best Albums of the 2010s

08 October 2019

good kid, m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar

Uproxx: The Best Albums of the 2010s

[see also 20232022202120202019201820172016]

Esquire: The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019

27 September 2019

No Visible Bruises - Rachel Louise Snyder

Esquire: The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019

[see also The 20 Best Books of 2023The Best Books of 2022The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022The 50 Best Books of 2021The Best Books of the 2010s]

Gorilla vs. Bear: Albums of the Decade

21 September 2019

Visions - Grimes

Gorilla vs. Bear: Albums of the Decade

[see also 2023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011]

IndieWire: The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s

23 July 2019

Moonlight - Barry Jenkins

IndieWire: The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s

[see also 20232022202120202015]

Women's Prize for Fiction: 2019

06 June 2019

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

Women's Prize for Fiction: 2019

[see also 202320222021202020182017201620152014201320122011]

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Cinema Scope: Top Ten Films of 2018

14 March 2019

An Elephant Sitting Still - Hu Bo

Cinema Scope: Top Ten Films of 2018

[see also 2022202120202010s20192017201620152014201320122011]

Special Mentions

Dan Sallitt: Favorite Films of 2018

14 March 2019

The Day After - Hong Sang-soo

Dan Sallitt: Favorite Films of 2018, of those "that played at least one week in Manhattan for the first time in 2018, in approximate order of preference"

[see also 2010s201920172012]

Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2018

06 February 2019

Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves

Pazz & Jop: Top 100 Albums of 2018 (an annual poll of hundreds of critics, published, perhaps for the last time, by The Village Voice)

[see also 2017201620152014201320122011]