Year-End Lists

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2020
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Suppose a Sentence - Brian Dillon

Our 65 Favorite Books of 2020 Lit Hub

10 Best Books of 2020 Publishers Weekly

10 Top Books of 2020 Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

Pass with Care - Cooper Lee Bombardier

Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020 David Gutowski

Rest and Be Thankful - Emma Glass

The Best Books of 2020 Real Simple

The Best Books We Read in 2020 New Yorker

Best Literary Fiction of 2020 Library Journal

Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu

Best Books of 2020 Shelf Awareness

Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

Top 20 Books of 2020 Chicago Public Library

The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again - M. John Harrison

Best Fiction of 2020 Guardian

Top 10 Books of 2020 New York Public Library

Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart

The Best Books of the Year 2020 BBC Culture: Lindsay Baker

The 10 Best Books of 2020 New York Times

Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 Time

100 Notable Books of 2020 New York Times

Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart

Best Fiction of 2020 The Booker Prize

The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020 Time

10 Best Books of 2020 Washington Post

Deacon King Kong - James McBride

20 Best Books of 2020 O Magazine

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 Washington Post

50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020 Washington Post

Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu

Fiction 2020 National Book Award

The Dead Are Arising - Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Nonfiction 2020 National Book Award

The City We Became - N.K. Jemisin

The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 Time

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