Year-End Lists

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

2020
Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart

Best Fiction of 2020 The Booker Prize

The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020 Time

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

10 Best Books of 2020 Washington Post

A Girl is A Body of Water - Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

20 Best Books of 2020 O Magazine

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 Washington Post

Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu

50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020 Washington Post

Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu

Fiction 2020 National Book Award

The Dead Are Arising - Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Nonfiction 2020 National Book Award

DMZ Colony - Don Mee Choi

Poetry 2020 National Book Award

Rough and Rowdy Ways - Bob Dylan

75 Best Albums of 2020 Mojo

Deacon King Kong - James McBride

The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 Time

Rough and Rowdy Ways - Bob Dylan

75 Best Albums of 2020 Uncut

Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism - Napalm Death

Top 40 Albums of 2020 Decibel

The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again - M. John Harrison

Best Fiction of 2020 Goldsmiths Prize

Untitled (Black Is) - Sault

Albums of the Year 2020 Rough Trade

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

Best Fiction of 2020 Powell's Books

Stakes Is High - Mychal Denzel Smith

Nonfiction 2020 Kirkus Prize

Luster - Raven Leilani

Fiction 2020 Kirkus Prize

Surviving Autocracy - Masha Gessen

Best Nonfiction of 2020 Powell's Books

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

Best Fiction of 2020 Women's Prize

Milkman - Anna Burns

2020 Dublin Literary Award

Sea Monsters - Chloe Aridjis

Fiction 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award