Year-End Lists

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

The Best TV Shows of 2020 New Yorker: Doreen St. Félix

The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

The 10 Best Books of 2020 Vulture: Molly Young

The Dream - Hailey Whitters

The 10 Best Country Albums Of 2020 Stereogum: Marissa R. Moss

Anime, Trauma and Divorce - Open Mike Eagle

Top 50 Albums of 2020 Beats Per Minute

My Thirty Favorite Albums of 2020 New Yorker: Sheldon Pearce

Actress - Anne Enright

The 10 Best Books of 2020 Wall Street Journal

Fetch the Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

The Best Albums of 2020 Vulture: Craig Jenkins

Nomadland - Chloé Zhao

Best Films of 2020 AP: Lindsey Bahr

Floodlines

The Best Podcasts of 2020 New Yorker: Sarah Larson

Untitled (Black Is) - Sault

The 100 Best Albums of 2020 Noisey

First Cow - Kelly Reichardt

Best Films of 2020 AP: Jake Coyle

The Best TV Shows of 2020 Variety: Caroline Framke

Small Axe: Mangrove - Steve McQueen

Best Movies of 2020 Variety: Owen Gleiberman

A Sun - Chung Mong-hong

Best Movies of 2020 Variety: Peter Debruge

Folklore - Taylor Swift

The 20 Best Albums of 2020 Business Insider: Callie Ahlgrim

The Best Movies of 2020 Uproxx

Small Axe: Lovers Rock - Steve McQueen

The Best Movies of 2020 Vulture: Angelica Jade Bastién

Martin Eden - Pietro Marcello

The Best Movies of 2020 Vulture: Bilge Ebiri

Bacurau - Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles

The Best Movies of 2020 Vulture: Alison Willmore

Workaround - Beatrice Dillon

Top 50 Albums of 2020 The Wire

RTJ4 - Run the Jewels

The Best Albums of 2020 Flood

Fetch the Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

The 50 Best Albums of 2020 Pitchfork

Small Axe - Steve McQueen

Best Movies of 2020 Washington Post: Ann Hornaday

Notes on a Silencing - Lacy Crawford

Our 65 Favorite Books of 2020 Lit Hub