Year-End Lists

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

Books
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

Best Fiction of 2020 Guardian

Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall

Top 10 Books of 2020 New York Public Library

Such a Fun Age - Kiley Reid

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

The 10 Best Books of 2020 New York Times

Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 Time

The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

100 Notable Books of 2020 New York Times

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

Sharks in the Time of Saviors - Kawai Strong Washburn

20 Best Books of 2020 O Magazine

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 Washington Post

Cleanness - Garth Greenwell

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

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women - Wayétu Moore

The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 Time

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

Best Fiction of 2020 Goldsmiths Prize

Deacon King Kong - James McBride

Best Fiction of 2020 Powell's Books

Stakes Is High - Mychal Denzel Smith

Nonfiction 2020 Kirkus Prize

Luster - Raven Leilani

Fiction 2020 Kirkus Prize

Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

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

Deep River - Karl Marlantes

The 18 Best Books of 2019 Boston.com