Year-End Lists

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

Books
Deacon King Kong - James McBride

Carnegie Medal Fiction 2021

Fathoms - Rebecca Giggs

Carnegie Medal Nonfiction 2021

Why We Can't Sleep - Ada Calhoun

Bustle The Best Books Of 2020

Notes on a Silencing - Lacy Crawford

BookPage Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction

The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

BookPage Best Books of 2020: Fiction

Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu

Thrillist The Best Books of 2020

Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

Harper’s Bazaar The Best Books of 2020

Elatsoe - Darcie Little Badger

Shondaland The Best Books of 2020

Uncanny Valley - Anna Wiener

Electric Lit Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020

A Burning - Megha Majumdar

Electric Lit Favorite Novels of 2020

Claire Fallon: HuffPost The Best Books of 2020

Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart

Vogue The Best Books of 2020

Memorial - Bryan Washington

Refinery29 Best Books of 2020

Boston Globe Best Books of 2020

Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu

Vanity Fair The 15 Best Books of 2020

Barack Obama Favorite Books of 2020

Luster - Raven Leilani

Passerby Best Books of 2020

Katy Waldman: New Yorker My Favorite Fiction of 2020

Enter the Aardvark - Jessica Anthony

A.V. Club 15 Favorite Books of 2020

The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel

Entertainment Weekly The 10 Best Books of 2020

Constance Grady: Vox The 15 Best Books of 2020

Dan Kois: Slate The Best Books of 2020

Laura Miller: Slate The Best Books of 2020

The Complete Gary Lutz - Gary Lutz

Dennis Cooper Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2020