Year-End Lists
A browsable archive 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
New York Times: A.O. Scott: Best Movies of 2021
Economist: The Best Books of 2021
Cinema Scope: Top Ten Films of 2011
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of the Decade 2010-2019
Sight & Sound Poll: Jonathan Rosenbaum: Ten Best Films of 2020
2020 Books
Slate: Laura Miller: The Best Books of 2020
14 December 2020
Laura Miller
:
The Best Books of 2020
, as published by
Slate
[see also
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Fiction
Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Deacon King Kong
James McBride
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
Summer
Ali Smith
Nonfiction
Fathoms
The World in the Whale
Rebecca Giggs
Hidden Valley Road
Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
Memorial Drive
A Daughter's Memoir
Natasha Trethewey
Caste
The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson