Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2024
Little White Lies: The 30 Best Films of 2024
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2024
more...
2020 Books
Bustle: The Best Books Of 2020
30 December 2020
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