Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

Books
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again - M. John Harrison

Best Fiction of 2020 Goldsmiths Prize

The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

Best Fiction of 2020 Powell's Books

Stakes Is High - Mychal Denzel Smith

Nonfiction 2020 Kirkus Prize

Luster - Raven Leilani

Fiction 2020 Kirkus Prize

Surviving Autocracy - Masha Gessen

Best Nonfiction of 2020 Powell's Books

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

Best Fiction of 2020 Women's Prize

Milkman - Anna Burns

2020 Dublin Literary Award

Sea Monsters - Chloe Aridjis

Fiction 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award

Deep River - Karl Marlantes

The 18 Best Books of 2019 Boston.com

Building Stories - Chris Ware

The 24 Best Books of the Decade BuzzFeed

In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado

Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 BookPage

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

Best Fiction Books of 2019 BookPage

Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe

Favorite Books of 2019 Barack Obama

Music - Ted Gioia

The 15 Best Books of 2019 Atlantic

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

10 Best Books of 2019 Publishers Weekly

Trust Exercise - Susan Choi

15 Best Novels of 2019 Electric Lit

Go Ahead in the Rain - Hanif Abdurraqib

15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 Electric Lit

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

The 17 Best Books of the 2010s Town & Country

Trick Mirror - Jia Tolentino

10 Best Books of 2019 New York Public Library

Nothing to See Here - Kevin Wilson

Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2019 BuzzFeed

Lay Studies - Steven Toussaint

2019 Books in Review Commonweal: Anthony Domestico

Juliet the Maniac - Juliet Escoria

Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2019 Dennis Cooper

Top 25 Books of 2019 Hyperallergic

God Save the Queens - Kathy Iandoli

Top Music Books of 2019 No Depression