Year-End Lists

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020

• Actress
  Anne Enright
• Afterland
  Mai Der Vang
• All Adults Here
  Emma Straub
• And I Do Not Forgive You
  Amber Sparks
• The Awkward Black Man
  Walter Mosley
• Big Summer
  Jennifer Weiner
• A Burning
  Megha Majumdar
• A Children's Bible
  Lydia Millet
• Cleanness
  Garth Greenwell
• Crooked Hallelujah
  Kelli Jo Ford
• The Daughters of Erietown
  Connie Schultz
• Days of Distraction
  Alexandra Chang
• Deacon King Kong
  James McBride
• Dear Edward
  Ann Napolitano
• The Death of Vivek Oji
  Akwaeke Emezi
• The Evening and the Morning
  Ken Follett
• Exciting Times
  Naoise Dolan
• A Girl is A Body of Water
  Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
• The Glass Hotel
  Emily St. John Mandel
• How Much of These Hills Is Gold
  C Pam Zhang
• Interior Chinatown
  Charles Yu
• The King at the Edge of the World
  Arthur Phillips
• Leave the World Behind
  Rumaan Alam
• The Lying Life of Adults
  Elena Ferrante
• Make Russia Great Again
  Christopher Buckley
• Memorial
  Bryan Washington
• Mexican Gothic
  Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Mirror & the Light
  Hilary Mantel
• The New Wilderness
  Diane Cook
• The Night Watchman
  Louise Erdrich
• Nights When Nothing Happened
  Simon Han
• The Office of Historical Corrections
  Danielle Evans
• Piranesi
  Susanna Clarke
• Plain Bad Heroines
  Emily M. Danforth
• The Pull of the Stars
  Emma Donoghue
• The Queen of Tuesday

  A Lucille Ball Story
  Darin Strauss
• Ready Player Two
  Ernest Cline
• Real Life
  Brandon Taylor
• The Resisters
  Gish Jen
• Rodham
  Curtis Sittenfeld
• Run Me to Earth
  Paul Yoon
• Shuggie Bain
  Douglas Stuart
• Simon the Fiddler
  Paulette Jiles
• Such a Fun Age
  Kiley Reid
• The Taste of Sugar
  Marisel Vera
• Utopia Avenue
  David Mitchell
• Valentine
  Elizabeth Wetmore
• The Vanishing Half
  Brit Bennett
• Weather
  Jenny Offill
• White Ivy
  Susie Yang