Year-End Lists

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The 10 Best Books of 2020 Entertainment Weekly

The 15 Best Books of 2020 Vox: Constance Grady

The Best Books of 2020 Slate: Dan Kois

The Best Books of 2020 Slate: Laura Miller

The 10 Best Books of 2020 Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli

The 10 Best Books of 2020 Vulture: Molly Young

The 10 Best Books of 2020 Wall Street Journal

Our 65 Favorite Books of 2020 Lit Hub

10 Best Books of 2020 Publishers Weekly

10 Top Books of 2020 Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020 David Gutowski

The Best Books of 2020 Real Simple

The Best Books We Read in 2020 New Yorker

Best Literary Fiction of 2020 Library Journal

Top 20 Books of 2020 Chicago Public Library

Best Fiction of 2020 Guardian

Top 10 Books of 2020 New York Public Library

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

The 10 Best Books of 2020 New York Times

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 Time

100 Notable Books of 2020 New York Times

Best Fiction of 2020 The Booker Prize

The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020 Time

10 Best Books of 2020 Washington Post

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Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, I make no tallies.