Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2021
Complex: The 50 Best Albums of 2024
Economist: The Best Books of 2024
more...
2020 Books
Boston Globe: Best Books of 2020
22 December 2020
The Boston Globe
:
Best Books of 2020
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2021
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Fiction
The Awkward Black Man
Walter Mosley
The Cold Millions
Jess Walter
Deacon King Kong
James McBride
The Death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi
Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
Luster
Raven Leilani
Memorial
Bryan Washington
The Office of Historical Corrections
Danielle Evans
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Kawai Strong Washburn
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
Nonfiction
Caste
The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
Having and Being Had
Eula Biss
Hidden Valley Road
Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker
Is Rape a Crime?
A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
Michelle Bowdler
Just Us
An American Conversation
Claudia Rankine
Memorial Drive
A Daughter's Memoir
Natasha Trethewey
Minor Feelings
An Asian American Reckoning
Cathy Park Hong
Uncanny Valley
Anna Wiener
Unworthy Republic
The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
Claudio Saunt
Wilmington's Lie
The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
David Zucchino
Wintering
The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May
