Year-End Lists

Laura Miller: The Best Books of 2020, as published by Slate

Fiction

• Homeland Elegies
  Ayad Akhtar
• Piranesi
  Susanna Clarke
• Deacon King Kong
  James McBride
• Such a Fun Age
  Kiley Reid
• Summer
  Ali Smith

Nonfiction

• Fathoms

  The World in the Whale
  Rebecca Giggs
• Hidden Valley Road

  Inside the Mind of an American Family
  Robert Kolker
• A Promised Land
  Barack Obama
• Memorial Drive

  A Daughter's Memoir
  Natasha Trethewey
• Caste

  The Origins of Our Discontents
  Isabel Wilkerson