Year-End Lists

Constance Grady: The 15 Best Books of 2020, as published by Vox

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2019]

• The Vanishing Half
  Brit Bennett
• Sometimes You Have to Lie

  The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy
  Leslie Brody
• Piranesi
  Susanna Clarke
• Beowulf
  Maria Dahvana Headley (translator)
• Mexican Gothic
  Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The City We Became
  N.K. Jemisin
• Something That May Shock and Discredit You
  Daniel M. Lavery
• Luster
  Raven Leilani
• The Mirror & the Light
  Hilary Mantel
• A Promised Land
  Barack Obama
• Such a Fun Age
  Kiley Reid
• Self Care
  Leigh Stein
• Real Life
  Brandon Taylor
• Or What You Will
  Jo Walton
• Uncanny Valley
  Anna Wiener