Year-End Lists

The Boston Globe: Best Books of 2020

Fiction

• The Awkward Black Man
  Walter Mosley
• The Cold Millions
  Jess Walter
• Deacon King Kong
  James McBride
• The Death of Vivek Oji
  Akwaeke Emezi
• Leave the World Behind
  Rumaan Alam
• Luster
  Raven Leilani
• Memorial
  Bryan Washington
• The Office of Historical Corrections
  Danielle Evans
• Sharks in the Time of Saviors
  Kawai Strong Washburn
• The Vanishing Half
  Brit Bennett

Nonfiction

• Caste

  The Origins of Our Discontents
  Isabel Wilkerson
• Having and Being Had
  Eula Biss
• Hidden Valley Road

  Inside the Mind of an American Family
  Robert Kolker
• Is Rape a Crime?

  A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
  Michelle Bowdler
• Just Us

  An American Conversation
  Claudia Rankine
• Memorial Drive

  A Daughter's Memoir
  Natasha Trethewey
• Minor Feelings

  An Asian American Reckoning
  Cathy Park Hong
• Uncanny Valley
  Anna Wiener
• Unworthy Republic

  The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
  Claudio Saunt
• Wilmington's Lie

  The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
  David Zucchino
• Wintering

  The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
  Katherine May