Year-End Lists

Thrillist: The Best Books of 2020

[see also 2021]

• Abigail
  Magda Szabo
• Above Us the Milky Way
  Fowzia Karimi
• All My Mother's Lovers
  Ilana Masad
• And I Do Not Forgive You
  Amber Sparks
• The Anthill
  Julianne Pachico
• August
  Callan Wink
• The Big Book of Modern Fantasy
  Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
• The Black Cathedral
  Marcial Gala
• The Book of Eels

  Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
  Patrik Svensson
• Breasts and Eggs
  Mieko Kawakami
• Cleanness
  Garth Greenwell
• Death in Her Hands
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear
  Matthew Salesses
• Entangled Life

  How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
  Merlin Sheldrake
• Fangs
  Sarah Andersen
• Follow Me To Ground
  Sue Rainsford
• The Glass Hotel
  Emily St. John Mandel
• The Heap
  Sean Adams
• Hex
  Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
• How Much of These Hills Is Gold
  C Pam Zhang
• I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
  Laura van den Berg
• If I Had Your Face
  Frances Cha
• Interior Chinatown
  Charles Yu
• Jack
  Marilynne Robinson
• Leave the World Behind
  Rumaan Alam
• Little Eyes
  Samanta Schweblin
• Migrations
  Charlotte McConaghy
• Owls of the Eastern Ice

  A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
  Jonathan C. Slaght
• A Peculiar Peril
  Jeff VanderMeer
• Pew
  Catherine Lacey
• Piranesi
  Susanna Clarke
• Real Life
  Brandon Taylor
• Red Dust
  Yoss
• A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth
  Daniel Mason
• Run Me to Earth
  Paul Yoon
• Temporary
  Hilary Leichter
• Then the Fish Swallowed Him
  Amir Ahmadi Arian
• The Town
  Shaun Prescott
• Tyll
  Daniel Kahneman
• The Unreality of Memory
  Elisa Gabbert
• Weather
  Jenny Offill
• We Ride Upon Sticks
  Quan Barry
• The Vanished Birds
  Simon Jimenez