Year-End Lists

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

Vitalina Varela - Pedro Costa

Ten Best Films of 2019 Sight & Sound Poll: Jonathan Rosenbaum

Game of Thrones

Here Are The 55 Best TV Shows Of The Decade BuzzFeed

The Leftovers

The Best TV Shows of the Decade, Ranked IndieWire

How We Fight for Our Lives - Saeed Jones

Nonfiction 2019 Kirkus Prize

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

Fiction 2019 Kirkus Prize

Boyhood - Richard Linklater

The Best Movies of the 2010s ScreenCrush: Matt Singer

The 10 Best Poetry Collections of the Decade Lit Hub

The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

The 40 Best Novels of the 2010s Paste

The Testaments - Margaret Atwood

Best Fiction of 2019 The Booker Prize

To Pimp A Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar

The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s Paste

Blond - Frank Ocean

The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork

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

The Best Albums of the 2010s Uproxx

No Visible Bruises - Rachel Louise Snyder

The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 Esquire

Visions - Grimes

Albums of the Decade Gorilla vs. Bear

Moonlight - Barry Jenkins

The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s IndieWire

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

Best Fiction of 2019 Women's Prize

An Elephant Sitting Still - Hu Bo

Top Ten Films of 2018 Cinema Scope

The Day After - Hong Sang-soo

Favorite Films of 2018 Dan Sallitt

Golden Hour - Kacey Musgraves

Top 100 Albums of 2018 Pazz & Jop

Barracoon - Zora Neale Hurston

The 13 Best Books of 2018 Harper’s Bazaar

Burning - Lee Chang-dong

Top Ten Films of 2018 Senses of Cinema World Poll: Brian Darr

The Favourite - Yorgos Lanthimos

The 2018 Jim Ridley Film Poll Nashville Scene

Room 25 - Noname

Dean's List 2018 Robert Christgau

The Rider - Chloé Zhao

Top Films of 2018 National Catholic Register: Steven D. Greydanus