Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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TV Shows

Best TV Shows of 2020 Esquire

Music
Fetch the Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

Best Albums of 2020 New York Times: Lindsay Zoladz

TV Shows

Best TV Shows of 2020 Entertainment Weekly: Darren Franich

TV Shows
Better Call Saul

Best TV Shows of 2020 Entertainment Weekly: Kristen Baldwin

Music
Southside - Sam Hunt

Best Albums of 2020 New York Times: Jon Caramanica

Movies
Parasite - Bong Joon-ho

The Best Movies of 2020 Empire

Music
The Ascension - Sufjan Stevens

Best Albums of 2020 New York Times: Jon Pareles

Movies
The Nest - Sean Durkin

The 10 Best Movies of 2020 Vanity Fair: Richard Lawson

TV Shows
Fargo

The Best TV Shows of 2020 Complex

TV Shows
Ted Lasso

The 19 Best TV Shows of 2020 Decider

Movies
Kajillionaire - Miranda July

The Best Movies of 2020 New Yorker: Richard Brody

Music
Untitled (Black Is) - Sault

The 50 Best Albums of 2020 NPR Music

Movies
City Hall - Frederick Wiseman

Top 10 Films of 2020 Cahiers du Cinéma

Music
Fetch the Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

Top 50 Albums of 2020 Consequence

Music
After Hours - The Weeknd

The Best Albums of 2020 Complex

Music
The New Abnormal - The Strokes

Our Top 100 Albums of 2020 Les Inrocks

Books
Rest and Be Thankful - Emma Glass

The Best Books of 2020 Real Simple

Books

The Best Books We Read in 2020 New Yorker

Books

Best Literary Fiction of 2020 Library Journal

Music
Fetch the Bolt Cutters - Fiona Apple

The 50 Best Albums Of 2020 Stereogum

Music
Folklore - Taylor Swift

The Best Albums Of 2020 Uproxx

Poetry

Best Poetry of 2020 Library Journal

Music
God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It - Backxwash

50 Best Albums of 2020 Exclaim

Books
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

Top 20 Books of 2020 Chicago Public Library

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Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, I make no tallies.