Year-End Lists

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

Last Year in Dachau - Mark Rappaport

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Sight & Sound Poll Ten Best Films of 2020

Ben Travers: IndieWire The Best TV Series of 2020

Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu

New York Public Library Top 10 Books of 2020

A Nail the Evening Hangs On - Monica Sok

New York Public Library Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020

Perfume Genius: Artforum Best Music of 2020

Shakedown - Leilah Weinraub

Cassie da Costa: Artforum 10 Best Films of 2020

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

A Promised Land - Barack Obama

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

Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart

New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020

Sawayama - Rina Sawayama

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

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

Washington Post 10 Best Books of 2020

Deacon King Kong - James McBride

O Magazine 20 Best Books of 2020

Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020

Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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