Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index of notable year-end lists. Follow the link for each list to see essential commentary from its author, at the source.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2022
Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2022
The Needle Drop: Tony Fantano: Top 50 Albums of 2022
Economist: Best Books of 2022
New York Times: A.O. Scott: Best Movies of 2022
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2020 Books
Guardian: Best Fiction of 2020
28 November 2020
The Guardian
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Best Fiction of 2020
[see also
2021
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2017
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Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
The Pull of the Stars
Emma Donoghue
The Silence
Don DeLillo
Weather
Jenny Offill
Exit Management
Naomi Booth
Summerwater
Sarah Moss
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
M. John Harrison
Summer
Ali Smith
The Mirror & the Light
Hilary Mantel
This Mournable Body
Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Shadow King
Maaza Mengiste
Jack
Marilynne Robinson
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
Utopia Avenue
David Mitchell
Mr Wilder and Me
Jonathan Coe
Rodham
Curtis Sittenfeld
Inside Story
Martin Amis
Mayflies
Andrew O'Hagan
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
Exciting Times
Naoise Dolan
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
The Young Team
Graeme Armstrong
Rainbow Milk
Paul Mendez
Burnt Sugar
Avni Doshi
Real Life
Brandon Taylor
The Liar's Dictionary
Eley Williams
The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante
Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor
The Discomfort of Evening
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Discomfort of Evening
Daniel Kahneman
Little Eyes
Samanta Schweblin
Benjamín Labatut
When We Cease to Understand the World
The Dominant Animal
Kathryn Scanlan
Modern Times
Cathy Sweeney
Reality and Other Stories
John Lanchester
The Voice in My Ear
Frances Leviston
Good Citizens Need Not Fear
Maria Reva
The Bass Rock
Evie Wyld
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke