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
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Highlights
The Needle Drop: Anthony Fantano: 50 Best Albums of 2020
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2019
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2023
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top Ten Films of 2023
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2021
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2020 Books
Refinery29: Best Books of 2020
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Best Books of 2020
Memorial
Bryan Washington
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar
Likes
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
A Burning
Megha Majumdar
Parakeet
Marie-Helene Bertino
Deacon King Kong
James McBride
You Exist Too Much
Zaina Arafat
Temporary
Hilary Leichter
Pizza Girl
Jean Kyoung Frazier
Perfect Tunes
Emily Gould
The Lightness
Emily Temple
Drifts
Kate Zambreno
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
C Pam Zhang
Heaven
Emerson Whitney
Alice Knott
Blake Butler
Want
Lynn Steger Strong
Memorial Drive
A Daughter's Memoir
Natasha Trethewey
True Love
Sarah Gerard
Little Gods
Meng Jin
The Knockout Queen
Rufi Thorpe
Little Eyes
Samanta Schweblin
Pew
Catherine Lacey
A Children's Bible
Lydia Millet
Weather
Jenny Offill
Luster
Raven Leilani
Uncanny Valley
Anna Wiener
The Disaster Tourist
Yun Ko-eun
What Happens at Night
Peter Cameron
Wow, No Thank You.
Samantha Irby
Homie
Danez Smith
If I Had Your Face
Frances Cha
The New Wilderness
Diane Cook
Topics of Conversation
Miranda Popkey
My Baby First Birthday
Jenny Zhang
The Office of Historical Corrections
Danielle Evans
Thresholes
Lara Mimosa Montes
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell
Writers & Lovers
Lily King
Days of Distraction
Alexandra Chang
Real Life
Brandon Taylor
Such a Fun Age
Kiley Reid
The Mercies
Kirin Millwood Hargrave
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
Interior Chinatown
Charles Yu
Rest and Be Thankful
Emma Glass
We Keep the Dead Close
A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
Becky Cooper
Death in Her Hands
Ottessa Moshfegh