Year-End Lists

Bustle: The Best Books Of 2020, listed in order of publication

[see also 2018]

• Why We Can't Sleep

  Women's New Midlife Crisis
  Ada Calhoun
• F*ck Your Diet

  And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me
  Chloé Hilliard
• Long Bright River
  Liz Moore
• Topics of Conversation
  Miranda Popkey
• Creatures
  Crissy Van Meter
• Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

  Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
  Zora Neale Hurston
• Little Gods
  Meng Jin
• Uncanny Valley
  Anna Wiener
• A Long Petal of the Sea
  Isabel Allende
• Upright Women Wanted
  Sarah Gailey
• The Resisters
  Gish Jen
• Brother & Sister
  Diane Keaton
• The Illness Lesson
  Clare Beams
• Weather
  Jenny Offill
• The Antidote for Everything
  Kimmery Martin
• Hood Feminism

  Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
  Mikki Kendall
• The Mirror & the Light
  Hilary Mantel
• My Dark Vanessa
  Kate Elizabeth Russell
• The City We Became
  N.K. Jemisin
• The Glass Hotel
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Wow, No Thank You.
  Samantha Irby
• Afterlife
  Julia Alvarez
• If I Had Your Face
  Frances Cha
• How to Pronounce Knife
  Souvankham Thammavongsa
• Our Riches
  Kaouther Adimi
• Little Eyes
  Samanta Schweblin
• A Children's Bible
  Lydia Millet
• Stray
  Stephanie Danler
• This Is What America Looks Like

  My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
  Ilhan Omar
• The Vanishing Half
  Brit Bennett
• Our Time Is Now

  Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
  Stacey Abrams
• The Margot Affair
  Sanaë Lemoine
• Death in Her Hands
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• Mexican Gothic
  Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• True Love
  Sarah Gerard
• Crooked Hallelujah
  Kelli Jo Ford
• Trouble the Saints
  Alaya Dawn Johnson
• Empire of Wild
  Cherie Dimaline
• The Death of Vivek Oji
  Akwaeke Emezi
• No Offense
  Meg Cabot
• A Room Called Earth
  Madeleine Ryan
• Sitting Pretty

  The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
  Rebekah Taussig
• Cemetery Boys
  Aiden Thomas
• That Time of Year
  Marie NDiaye
• Piranesi
  Susanna Clarke
• The Book of Two Ways
  Jodi Picoult
• Bestiary
  K-Ming Chang
• Spoiler Alert
  Olivia Dade
• Ring Shout
  P. Djèlí Clark
• Phoenix Extravagant
  Yoon Ha Lee
• The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop
  Fannie Flagg
• Too Much Lip
  Melissa Lucashenko
• We Keep the Dead Close

  A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
  Becky Cooper
• These Violent Delights
  Micah Nemerever
• The Thirty Names of Night
  Zeyn Joukhadar
• Perestroika in Paris
  Jane Smiley
• The Mermaid from Jeju
  Sumi Hahn
• This Is How We Fly
  Anna Meriano
• Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
  torrin a. greathouse
• A Spy in the Struggle
  Aya de Leon