Year-End Lists

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

Postcolonial Love Poem - Natalie Diaz

Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020 New York Public Library

Best Music of 2020 Artforum: Perfume Genius

Shakedown - Leilah Weinraub

10 Best Films of 2020 Artforum: Cassie da Costa

10 Best Films of 2020 Artforum: Erika Balsom

The Woman Who Ran - Hong Sang-soo

10 Best Films of 2020 Artforum: James Quandt

10 Best Films of 2020 Artforum: Amy Taubin

Butt Boy - Tyler Cornack

10 Best Films of 2020 Artforum: John Waters

The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

The Best Books of the Year 2020 BBC Culture: Lindsay Baker

The 10 Best Books of 2020 New York Times

Nice White Parents

The 10 Best Podcasts of 2020 Time: Eliana Dockterman

Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 Time

Little Eyes - Samanta Schweblin

100 Notable Books of 2020 New York Times

Future Nostalgia - Dua Lipa

Best Albums of 2020 BBC Culture: Nick Levine

Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart

Best Fiction of 2020 The Booker Prize

The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020 Time

Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi

10 Best Books of 2020 Washington Post

Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

20 Best Books of 2020 O Magazine

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 Washington Post

Deacon King Kong - James McBride

50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020 Washington Post

Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu

Fiction 2020 National Book Award

The Dead Are Arising - Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Nonfiction 2020 National Book Award

DMZ Colony - Don Mee Choi

Poetry 2020 National Book Award

Rough and Rowdy Ways - Bob Dylan

75 Best Albums of 2020 Mojo

The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 Time