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.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2023
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2023
Tiny Mix Tapes: Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade
New Yorker: Richard Brody: 30 Best Movies of 2015
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2020 Books
Thrillist: The Best Books of 2020
30 December 2020
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The Best Books of 2020
[see also
2021
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Abigail
Magda Szabo
Above Us the Milky Way
Fowzia Karimi
All My Mother's Lovers
Ilana Masad
And I Do Not Forgive You
Amber Sparks
The Anthill
Julianne Pachico
August
Callan Wink
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy
Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
The Black Cathedral
Marcial Gala
The Book of Eels
Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
Patrik Svensson
Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell
Death in Her Hands
Ottessa Moshfegh
Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear
Matthew Salesses
Entangled Life
How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake
Fangs
Sarah Andersen
Follow Me To Ground
Sue Rainsford
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
The Heap
Sean Adams
Hex
Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
C Pam Zhang
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
Laura van den Berg
If I Had Your Face
Frances Cha
Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu
Jack
Marilynne Robinson
Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
Little Eyes
Samanta Schweblin
Migrations
Charlotte McConaghy
Owls of the Eastern Ice
A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
Jonathan C. Slaght
A Peculiar Peril
Jeff VanderMeer
Pew
Catherine Lacey
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Real Life
Brandon Taylor
Red Dust
Yoss
A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth
Daniel Mason
Run Me to Earth
Paul Yoon
Temporary
Hilary Leichter
Then the Fish Swallowed Him
Amir Ahmadi Arian
The Town
Shaun Prescott
Tyll
Daniel Kahneman
The Unreality of Memory
Elisa Gabbert
Weather
Jenny Offill
We Ride Upon Sticks
Quan Barry
The Vanished Birds
Simon Jimenez