Year-End Lists

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

2020

IndieWire: Ben Travers: The Best TV Series of 2020

Temporary - Hilary Leichter

New York Public Library: Top 10 Books of 2020

Finna - Nate Marshall

New York Public Library: Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020

Artforum: Perfume Genius: Best Music of 2020

Shakedown - Leilah Weinraub

Artforum: Cassie da Costa: 10 Best Films of 2020

Artforum: Erika Balsom: 10 Best Films of 2020

The Woman Who Ran - Hong Sang-soo

Artforum: James Quandt: 10 Best Films of 2020

Artforum: Amy Taubin: 10 Best Films of 2020

Butt Boy - Tyler Cornack

Artforum: John Waters: 10 Best Films of 2020

A Promised Land - Barack Obama

BBC Culture: Lindsay Baker: The Best Books of the Year 2020

New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2020

Nice White Parents

Time: Eliana Dockterman: The 10 Best Podcasts of 2020

Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

Time: The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020

A Promised Land - Barack Obama

New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2020

Róisín Machine - Róisín Murphy

BBC Culture: Nick Levine: Best Albums of 2020

Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart

The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2020

The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

Time: The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020

Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi

Washington Post: 10 Best Books of 2020

Little Eyes - Samanta Schweblin

O Magazine: 20 Best Books of 2020

Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020

Memorial - Bryan Washington

Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020

Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu

National Book Award: Fiction 2020

The Dead Are Arising - Les Payne and Tamara Payne

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2020

DMZ Colony - Don Mee Choi

National Book Award: Poetry 2020

Rough and Rowdy Ways - Bob Dylan

Mojo: 75 Best Albums of 2020

Actress - Anne Enright

Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020

Rough and Rowdy Ways - Bob Dylan

Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2020

Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism - Napalm Death

Decibel: Top 40 Albums of 2020

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

Goldsmiths Prize: Best Fiction of 2020

Untitled (Black Is) - Sault

Rough Trade: Albums of the Year 2020

Deacon King Kong - James McBride

Powell's Books: Best Fiction of 2020

Stakes Is High - Mychal Denzel Smith

Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2020

Luster - Raven Leilani

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2020

Surviving Autocracy - Masha Gessen

Powell's Books: Best Nonfiction of 2020

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

Women's Prize: Best Fiction of 2020

Milkman - Anna Burns

Dublin Literary Award: 2020

Sea Monsters - Chloe Aridjis

PEN/Faulkner Award: Fiction 2020