Year-End Lists

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

Books
Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu

National Book Award Fiction 2020

The Dead Are Arising - Les Payne and Tamara Payne

National Book Award Nonfiction 2020

Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu

Time The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020

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

Goldsmiths Prize Best Fiction of 2020

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

Powell's Books Best Fiction of 2020

Stakes Is High - Mychal Denzel Smith

Kirkus Reviews Nonfiction 2020

Luster - Raven Leilani

Kirkus Reviews Fiction 2020

The Dead Are Arising - Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Powell's Books Best Nonfiction of 2020

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

Women's Prize Fiction 2020

Milkman - Anna Burns

Dublin Literary Award 2020

Lot - Bryan Washington

Dylan Thomas Prize 2020 Award

Sea Monsters - Chloe Aridjis

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction 2020

Deep River - Karl Marlantes

Boston.com The 18 Best Books of 2019

Citizen - Claudia Rankine

BuzzFeed The 24 Best Books of the Decade

In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado

BookPage Best Nonfiction Books of 2019

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

BookPage Best Fiction Books of 2019

Trick Mirror - Jia Tolentino

Barack Obama Favorite Books of 2019

Music - Ted Gioia

Atlantic The 15 Best Books of 2019

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

Publishers Weekly 10 Best Books of 2019

American Spy - Lauren Wilkinson

Electric Lit 15 Best Novels of 2019

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl - Jeannie Vanasco

Electric Lit 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

Town & Country The 17 Best Books of the 2010s

Normal People - Sally Rooney

New York Public Library 10 Best Books of 2019

The Topeka School - Ben Lerner

BuzzFeed Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2019