Year-End Lists

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

Erika Balsom: Artforum 10 Best Films of 2020

The Woman Who Ran - Hong Sang-soo

James Quandt: Artforum 10 Best Films of 2020

Amy Taubin: Artforum 10 Best Films of 2020

Butt Boy - Tyler Cornack

John Waters: Artforum 10 Best Films of 2020

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

Lindsay Baker: BBC The Best Books of the Year 2020

New York Times The 10 Best Books of 2020

Nice White Parents

Eliana Dockterman: Time The 10 Best Podcasts of 2020

Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

Time The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020

Deacon King Kong - James McBride

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020

Folklore - Taylor Swift

Nick Levine: BBC Best Albums of 2020

Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart

The Booker Prize 2020 Award

The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

Time The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020

Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi

Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2020

A Girl is A Body of Water - Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

O Magazine 20 Best Books of 2020

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020

Actress - Anne Enright

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020

Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu

National Book Award Fiction 2020

The Dead Are Arising - Les Payne and Tamara Payne

National Book Award Nonfiction 2020

DMZ Colony - Don Mee Choi

National Book Award Poetry 2020

Rough and Rowdy Ways - Bob Dylan

Mojo 75 Best Albums of 2020

Memorial - Bryan Washington

Time The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020

Rough and Rowdy Ways - Bob Dylan

Uncut 75 Best Albums of 2020

Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism - Napalm Death

Decibel Top 40 Albums of 2020

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

Goldsmiths Prize Best Fiction of 2020