Year-End Lists

The Washington Post: 10 Best Books of 2020

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020 • Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • The 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The Ten Best Books of 2014 • Top 10 Books of 2013 • The 10 Best Books of 2012]

• Caste

  The Origins of Our Discontents
  Isabel Wilkerson
• The Cold Millions
  Jess Walter
• Hamnet
  Maggie O'Farrell
• Hidden Valley Road

  Inside the Mind of an American Family
  Robert Kolker
• Homeland Elegies
  Ayad Akhtar
• Memorial Drive

  A Daughter's Memoir
  Natasha Trethewey
• Transcendent Kingdom
  Yaa Gyasi
• Unworthy Republic

  The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
  Claudio Saunt
• Vesper Flights
  Helen Macdonald
• Writers & Lovers
  Lily King

O, The Oprah Magazine: 20 Best Books of 2020

[see also 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

• African American Poetry

  250 Years of Struggle & Song
  Kevin Young (editor)
• A Beautiful Crime
  Christopher Bollen
• The Boy in the Field
  Margot Livesey
• Caste

  The Origins of Our Discontents
  Isabel Wilkerson
• The Cold Millions
  Jess Walter
• Deacon King Kong
  James McBride
• A Girl is A Body of Water
  Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
• Homeland Elegies
  Ayad Akhtar
• To Be a Man
  Nicole Krauss
• Intimations
  Zadie Smith
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
  V.E. Schwab
• Just Us

  An American Conversation
  Claudia Rankine
• Little Eyes
  Samanta Schweblin
• Luster
  Raven Leilani
• The Lying Life of Adults
  Elena Ferrante
• The Office of Historical Corrections
  Danielle Evans
• Plain Bad Heroines
  Emily M. Danforth
• Red Comet

  The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
  Heather Clark
• Sharks in the Time of Saviors
  Kawai Strong Washburn
• What Are You Going Through
  Sigrid Nunez

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 10 Best Books of 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020 • Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • The 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The Ten Best Books of 2014 • Top 10 Books of 2013 • The 10 Best Books of 2012]

• Abe

  Abraham Lincoln in His Times
  David S. Reynolds
• Active Measures

  The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
  Thomas Rid
• All I Ever Wanted

  A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir
  Kathy Valentine
• The Art of Her Deal

  The Untold Story of Melania Trump
  Mary Jordan
• Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
  Anonymous
• Begin Again

  James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
  Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
• The Big Goodbye

  Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
  Sam Wasson
• The Biggest Bluff

  How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
  Maria Konnikova
• Breath

  The New Science of a Lost Art
  James Nestor
• The Book of Eels

  Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
  Patrik Svensson
• Dark Mirror

  Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
  Barton Gellman
• The Dead Are Arising

  The Life of Malcolm X
  Les Payne and Tamara Payne
• The Deviant's War

  The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
  Eric Cervini
• Dirt

  Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
  Bill Buford
• Dolly Parton, Songteller

  My Life in Lyrics
  Dolly Parton
• Eat the Buddha

  Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
  Barbara Demick
• A Furious Sky

  The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
  Eric Jay Dolin
• Galileo

  And the Science Deniers
  Mario Livio
• Ghosting the News

  Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy
  Margaret Sullivan
• His Truth Is Marching On

  John Lewis and the Power of Hope
  Jon Meacham
• Hood Feminism

  Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
  Mikki Kendall
• How the South Won the Civil War

  Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
  Heather Cox Richardson
• Humankind

  A Hopeful History
  Rutger Bregman
• I You We Them: Volume 1: Walking into the World of the Desk Killer
  Dan Gretton
• Kleptopia

  How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
  Tom Burgis
• The Man Who Ran Washington

  The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
  Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
• Max Jacob

  A Life in Art and Letters
  Rosanna Warren
• Me and White Supremacy

  Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
  Layla Saad
• Minor Feelings

  An Asian American Reckoning
  Cathy Park Hong
• One Mighty and Irresistible Tide

  The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965
  Jia Lynn Yang
• Pelosi
  Molly Ball
• The People, No

  A Brief History of Anti-Populism
  Thomas Frank
• The Professor and the Parson

  A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking
  Adam Sisman
• A Promised Land
  Barack Obama
• Rage
  Bob Woodward
• Rigged

  America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference
  David Shimer
• The Splendid and the Vile

  A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
  Erik Larson
• Stranger in the Shogun's City

  A Japanese Woman and Her World
  Amy Stanley
• Too Much and Never Enough

  How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
  Mary L. Trump
• Twilight of Democracy

  The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
  Anne Applebaum
• Uncanny Valley
  Anna Wiener
• Untamed
  Glennon Doyle
• A Very Stable Genius

  Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
  Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig
• We Have Been Harmonized

  Life in China's Surveillance State
  Kai Strittmatter
• What It's Like to Be a Bird

  From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing--What Birds Are Doing, and Why
  David Allen Sibley
• What Were We Thinking

  A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
  Carlos Lozada
• Why Fish Don't Exist

  A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
  Lulu Miller
• Wow, No Thank You.
  Samantha Irby
• Wuhan Diary

  Dispatches from a Quarantined City
  Fang Fang
• You're Not Listening

  What You're Missing and Why It Matters
  Kate Murphy

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 10 Best Books of 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 • Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • The 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The Ten Best Books of 2014 • Top 10 Books of 2013 • The 10 Best Books of 2012]

• Actress
  Anne Enright
• Afterland
  Mai Der Vang
• All Adults Here
  Emma Straub
• And I Do Not Forgive You
  Amber Sparks
• The Awkward Black Man
  Walter Mosley
• Big Summer
  Jennifer Weiner
• A Burning
  Megha Majumdar
• A Children's Bible
  Lydia Millet
• Cleanness
  Garth Greenwell
• Crooked Hallelujah
  Kelli Jo Ford
• The Daughters of Erietown
  Connie Schultz
• Days of Distraction
  Alexandra Chang
• Deacon King Kong
  James McBride
• Dear Edward
  Ann Napolitano
• The Death of Vivek Oji
  Akwaeke Emezi
• The Evening and the Morning
  Ken Follett
• Exciting Times
  Naoise Dolan
• A Girl is A Body of Water
  Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
• The Glass Hotel
  Emily St. John Mandel
• How Much of These Hills Is Gold
  C Pam Zhang
• Interior Chinatown
  Charles Yu
• The King at the Edge of the World
  Arthur Phillips
• Leave the World Behind
  Rumaan Alam
• The Lying Life of Adults
  Elena Ferrante
• Make Russia Great Again
  Christopher Buckley
• Memorial
  Bryan Washington
• Mexican Gothic
  Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Mirror & the Light
  Hilary Mantel
• The New Wilderness
  Diane Cook
• The Night Watchman
  Louise Erdrich
• Nights When Nothing Happened
  Simon Han
• The Office of Historical Corrections
  Danielle Evans
• Piranesi
  Susanna Clarke
• Plain Bad Heroines
  Emily M. Danforth
• The Pull of the Stars
  Emma Donoghue
• The Queen of Tuesday

  A Lucille Ball Story
  Darin Strauss
• Ready Player Two
  Ernest Cline
• Real Life
  Brandon Taylor
• The Resisters
  Gish Jen
• Rodham
  Curtis Sittenfeld
• Run Me to Earth
  Paul Yoon
• Shuggie Bain
  Douglas Stuart
• Simon the Fiddler
  Paulette Jiles
• Such a Fun Age
  Kiley Reid
• The Taste of Sugar
  Marisel Vera
• Utopia Avenue
  David Mitchell
• Valentine
  Elizabeth Wetmore
• The Vanishing Half
  Brit Bennett
• Weather
  Jenny Offill
• White Ivy
  Susie Yang

National Book Award: Fiction 2020

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2013 • Nonfiction 2013]

Winner

• Interior Chinatown
  Charles Yu

Finalists

• Leave the World Behind
  Rumaan Alam
• A Children's Bible
  Lydia Millet
• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
  Deesha Philyaw
• Shuggie Bain
  Douglas Stuart

Longlist

• The Index of Self-Destructive Acts
  Christopher Beha
• The Vanishing Half
  Brit Bennett
• If I Had Two Wings
  Randall Kenan
• A Burning
  Megha Majumdar
• The Great Offshore Grounds
  Vanessa Veselka

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2020

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2020 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2013 • Nonfiction 2013]

Winner

• The Dead Are Arising

  The Life of Malcolm X
  Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Finalists

• Unworthy Republic

  The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
  Claudio Saunt
• My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
  Jenn Shapland
• The Undocumented Americans
  Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
  Jerald Walker

Longlist

• Is Rape a Crime?

  A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
  Michelle Bowdler
• If Then

  How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
  Jill Lepore
• Owls of the Eastern Ice

  A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
  Jonathan C. Slaght
• Afropessimism
  Frank B. Wilderson III
• Caste

  The Origins of Our Discontents
  Isabel Wilkerson

National Book Award: Poetry 2020

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2013]

Winner

• DMZ Colony
  Don Mee Choi

Finalists

• A Treatise on Stars
  Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
• Fantasia for the Man in Blue
  Tommye Blount
• Borderland Apocrypha
  Anthony Cody
• Postcolonial Love Poem
  Natalie Diaz

Longlist

• The Galleons
  Rick Barot
• Travesty Generator
  Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
• Obit
  Victoria Chang
• Guillotine
  Eduardo C. Corral
• The Age of Phillis
  Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Mojo Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2020

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Rough and Rowdy Ways
   Bob Dylan
2. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
   Fiona Apple
3. A Hero's Death
   Fontaines D.C.
4. Gold Record
   Bill Callahan
5. Shore
   Fleet Foxes
6. England Is a Garden
   Cornershop
7. Beyond the Pale
   Jarv Is
8. RTJ4
   Run the Jewels
9. Punisher
   Phoebe Bridgers
10. American Head
    The Flaming Lips
11. On Sunset
    Paul Weller
12. Ultra Mono
    Idles
13. Græ
    Moses Sumney
14. Rejoice
    Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela
15. U Kin B the Sun
    Frazey Ford
16. Idiot Prayer
    Nick Cave
17. Song for Our Daughter
    Laura Marling
18. Got to Be Tough
    Toots and the Maytals
19. Untitled (Black Is)
    Sault
20. SOURCE
    Nubya Garcia
21. Straight Songs of Sorrow
    Mark Lanegan
22. Thanks for the Dance
    Leonard Cohen
23. We Are Sent Here by History
    Shabaka and the Ancestors
24. Dark Matter
    Moses Boyd
25. A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip
    Sparks
26. Mordechai
    Khruangbin
27. Traditional Techniques
    Stephen Malkmus
28. Heart's Ease
    Shirley Collins
29. It Is What It Is
    Thundercat
30. Old Wow
    Sam Lee
31. Folklore
    Taylor Swift
32. Coriky
    Coriky
33. Three
    The Necks
34. La Vita Nuova
    Maria McKee
35. Summerlong
    Rose City Band
36. The Unraveling
    Drive-By Truckers
37. Future Nostalgia
    Dua Lipa
38. Good Souls Better Angels
    Lucinda Williams
39. Women in Music Pt. III
    Haim
40. By the Fire
    Thurston Moore
41. The Slow Rush
    Tame Impala
42. Countless Branches
    Bill Fay
43. Mutable Set
    Blake Mills
44. Gigaton
    Pearl Jam
45. Letter to You
    Bruce Springsteen
46. Live at the Roundhouse
    Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets
47. Fall to Pieces
    Tricky
48. Out of My Province
    Nadia Reid
49. Lianne La Havas
    Lianne La Havas
50. The Ascension
    Sufjan Stevens
51. You Make Me Feel
    Don Bryant
52. Untitled (Rise)
    Sault
53. Kitchen Sink
    Nadine Shah
54. Good Luck, Seeker
    The Waterboys
55. I Love the New Sky
    Tim Burgess
56. Quickies
    The Magnetic Fields
57. Optimisme
    Songhoy Blues
58. Working Men's Club
    Working Men's Club
59. The Night Chancers
    Baxter Dury
60. The Universal Want
    Doves
61. Peoples Motel Band
    Chris Forsyth with Garcia Peoples
62. Revel in the Drama
    Ren Harvieu
63. Making a Door Less Open
    Car Seat Headrest
64. Songs for the General Public
    The Lemon Twigs
65. Hyperspace
    Beck
66. Bonny Light Horseman
    Bonny Light Horseman
67. Suite for Max Brown
    Jeff Parker
68. The Big Exercise
    The Homesick
69. Made of Rain
    The Psychedelic Furs
70. Whole New Mess
    Angel Olsen
71. Making a New World
    Field Music
72. 10:20
    Wire
73. Reunions
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
74. Heavy Light
    U.S. Girls
75. Sideways to New Italy
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever

Time Magazine: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020

[see also The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019 • Best Books of 2018 • Top 20 Books of 2017]

• Actress
  Anne Enright
• The Address Book

  What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
  Deirdre Mask
• African American Poetry

  250 Years of Struggle & Song
  Kevin Young (editor)
• Afterlife
  Julia Alvarez
• Agency
  William Gibson
• Begin Again

  James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
  Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
• Big Friendship

  How We Keep Each Other Close
  Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman
• The Book of Eels

  Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
  Patrik Svensson
• Breasts and Eggs
  Mieko Kawakami
• Brown Album

  Essays on Exile and Identity
  Porochista Khakpour
• A Burning
  Megha Majumdar
• Can't Even

  How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
  Anne Helen Petersen
• Caste

  The Origins of Our Discontents
  Isabel Wilkerson
• A Children's Bible
  Lydia Millet
• The City We Became
  N.K. Jemisin
• Cleanness
  Garth Greenwell
• Conditional Citizens

  On Belonging in America
  Laila Lalami
• Crooked Hallelujah
  Kelli Jo Ford
• Culture Warlords

  My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
  Talia Lavin
• Days of Distraction
  Alexandra Chang
• Deacon King Kong
  James McBride
• The Dead Are Arising

  The Life of Malcolm X
  Les Payne and Tamara Payne
• Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
  Deepa Anappara
• The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
  Wayétu Moore
• Earthlings
  Sayaka Murata
• The End of White Politics

  How to Heal Our Liberal Divide
  Zerlina Maxwell
• Entangled Life

  How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
  Merlin Sheldrake
• Enter the Aardvark
  Jessica Anthony
• Followers
  Megan Angelo
• A Girl is A Body of Water
  Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
• The Glass Hotel
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Golden Gates

  Fighting for Housing in America
  Conor Dougherty
• Having and Being Had
  Eula Biss
• Hidden Valley Road

  Inside the Mind of an American Family
  Robert Kolker
• His Only Wife
  Peace Adzo Medie
• Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945
  Volker Ullrich
• Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

  Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
  Zora Neale Hurston
• Homeland Elegies
  Ayad Akhtar
• Hood Feminism

  Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
  Mikki Kendall
• How to Pronounce Knife
  Souvankham Thammavongsa
• I Don't Want to Die Poor
  Michael Arceneaux
• I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
  Laura van den Berg
• If I Had Your Face
  Frances Cha
• Interior Chinatown
  Charles Yu
• Intimations
  Zadie Smith
• Is Rape a Crime?

  A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
  Michelle Bowdler
• Jack
  Marilynne Robinson
• Just Us

  An American Conversation
  Claudia Rankine
• Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
  Cho Nam-Joo
• Leave the World Behind
  Rumaan Alam
• Let's Never Talk About This Again
  Sara Faith Alterman
• Luster
  Raven Leilani
• The Lying Life of Adults
  Elena Ferrante
• Memorial
  Bryan Washington
• Memorial Drive

  A Daughter's Memoir
  Natasha Trethewey
• Migrations
  Charlotte McConaghy
• Minor Feelings

  An Asian American Reckoning
  Cathy Park Hong
• The Mirror & the Light
  Hilary Mantel
• My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
  Jenn Shapland
• Nerve

  Adventures in the Science of Fear
  Eva Holland
• The Night Watchman
  Louise Erdrich
• Nights When Nothing Happened
  Simon Han
• Notes on a Silencing
  Lacy Crawford
• Obit
  Victoria Chang
• Oligarchy
  Scarlett Thomas
• One Mighty and Irresistible Tide

  The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965
  Jia Lynn Yang
• One to Watch
  Kate Stayman-London
• The Only Good Indians
  Stephen Graham Jones
• Open Book
  Jessica Simpson
• Party of Two
  Jasmine Guillory
• The Pink Line

  Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers
  Mark Gevisser
• Piranesi
  Susanna Clarke
• Postcolonial Love Poem
  Natalie Diaz
• The Purpose of Power

  How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
  Alicia Garza
• Reaganland

  America's Right Turn 1976-1980
  Rick Perlstein
• Recollections of My Nonexistence
  Rebecca Solnit
• Run Me to Earth
  Paul Yoon
• A Saint from Texas
  Edmund White
• Sex and Vanity
  Kevin Kwan
• She Come By It Natural

  Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs
  Sarah Smarsh
• Shuggie Bain
  Douglas Stuart
• The Splendid and the Vile

  A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
  Erik Larson
• The Sword and the Shield

  The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
  Peniel E. Joseph
• To Be a Man
  Nicole Krauss
• Tokyo Ueno Station
  Yu Miri
• Topics of Conversation
  Miranda Popkey
• The Undocumented Americans
  Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• Unfree Speech

  The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now
  Joshua Wong
• Vanguard

  How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
  Martha S. Jones
• The Vanishing Half
  Brit Bennett
• Vesper Flights
  Helen Macdonald
• Wandering in Strange Lands

  A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
  Morgan Jerkins
• Want
  Lynn Steger Strong
• We Ride Upon Sticks
  Quan Barry
• Weather
  Jenny Offill
• Where the Wild Ladies Are
  Aoko Matsuda
• Why We Swim
  Bonnie Tsui
• Wow, No Thank You.
  Samantha Irby
• You Never Forget Your First

  A Biography of George Washington
  Alexis Coe
• 150 Glimpses of the Beatles
  Craig Brown

Uncut Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2020

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012]

1. Rough and Rowdy Ways
   Bob Dylan
2. Shore
   Fleet Foxes
3. Punisher
   Phoebe Bridgers
4. The New OK
   Drive-By Truckers
5. It Is What It Is
   Thundercat
6. Saint Cloud
   Waxahatchee
7. Gold Record
   Bill Callahan
8. Beyond the Pale
   Jarv Is
9. Heart's Ease
   Shirley Collins
10. Song for Our Daughter
    Laura Marling
11. Reunions
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
12. Dark Matter
    Moses Boyd
13. The Slow Rush
    Tame Impala
14. Old Flowers
    Courtney Marie Andrews
15. A Hero's Death
    Fontaines D.C.
16. Traditional Techniques
    Stephen Malkmus
17. Untitled (Black Is)
    Sault
18. U Kin B the Sun
    Frazey Ford
19. Head Above the Water
    Brigid Mae Power
20. Letter to You
    Bruce Springsteen
21. Ever-Roving Eye
    James Elkington
22. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
    Fiona Apple
23. On Sunset
    Paul Weller
24. Græ
    Moses Sumney
25. SOURCE
    Nubya Garcia
26. Sideways to New Italy
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
27. Sundowner
    Kevin Morby
28. Good Souls Better Angels
    Lucinda Williams
29. Optimisme
    Songhoy Blues
30. England Is a Garden
    Cornershop
31. Lindé
    Afel Bocoum
32. American Head
    The Flaming Lips
33. The True Story of Bananagun
    Bananagun
34. Summerlong
    Rose City Band
35. We Are Sent Here by History
    Shabaka and the Ancestors
36. Have We Met
    Destroyer
37. A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip
    Sparks
38. Bonny Light Horseman
    Bonny Light Horseman
39. Made of Rain
    The Psychedelic Furs
40. Ballet Of Apes
    Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network
41. Debris
    Keeley Forsyth
42. Róisín Machine
    Róisín Murphy
43. Cantus, Descant
    Sarah Davachi
44. Pleasure, Joy and Happiness
    Eddie Chacon
45. Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was
    Bright Eyes
46. Mixing Colors
    Roger Eno and Brian Eno
47. Working Men's Club
    Working Men's Club
48. Three
    The Necks
49. Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain
    Gwenifer Raymond
50. That's How Rumors Get Started
    Margo Price
51. Women in Music Pt. III
    Haim
52. Free Humans
    Hen Ogledd
53. The Ascension
    Sufjan Stevens
54. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
    Perfume Genius
55. Mordechai
    Khruangbin
56. Songs for the General Public
    The Lemon Twigs
57. Rejoice
    Tony Allen and Hugh Masekela
58. Shortly After Takeoff
    BC Camplight
59. Healing Is a Miracle
    Julianna Barwick
60. Lianne La Havas
    Lianne La Havas
61. Hey Clockface
    Elvis Costello
62. Land of No Junction
    Aoife Nessa Frances
63. Eno Axis
    H.C. McEntire
64. Kitchen Sink
    Nadine Shah
65. Nightcap at Wits' End
    Garcia Peoples
66. Companion Rises
    Six Organs of Admittance
67. Phantom Birds
    Matt Berry
68. Ghosts of West Virginia
    Steve Earle & The Dukes
69. Starmaker
    Honey Harper
70. Countless Branches
    Bill Fay
71. The View From Halfway Down
    Andy Bell
72. Tamotaït
    Tamikrest
73. The Universal Want
    Doves
74. Suite for Max Brown
    Jeff Parker
75. Inner Song
    Kelly Lee Owens