Year-End Lists

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

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

Goldsmiths Prize Best Fiction of 2020

Deacon King Kong - James McBride

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

Wake, Siren - Nina MacLaughlin

Boston.com The 18 Best Books of 2019

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

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

Trust Exercise - Susan Choi

Barack Obama Favorite Books of 2019

Lot - Bryan Washington

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

Trick Mirror - Jia Tolentino

New York Public Library 10 Best Books of 2019

The Topeka School - Ben Lerner

BuzzFeed Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2019

Lay Studies - Steven Toussaint

Anthony Domestico: Commonweal 2019 Books in Review

Juliet the Maniac - Juliet Escoria

Dennis Cooper Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2019

Hyperallergic Top 25 Books of 2019