Best Books of the Year
Menu

The Story Prize · award year

The Story Prize 2020

The 2020 Story Prize went to Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat (Short Story Collection) and The Trojan War Museum by Ayşe Papatya Bucak (Spotlight Award). 4 books were finalists across 2 categories.

Winners

Short Story Collection

  1. Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticatsource (opens in a new tab)

Spotlight Award

  1. The Trojan War Museum by Ayşe Papatya Bucaksource (opens in a new tab)

Finalists

Short Story Collection

  1. Grand Union by Zadie Smithsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Sabrina & Corina by Kali Fajardo-Anstinesource (opens in a new tab)

About the The Story Prize

Winner and two finalists for the year's best short story collection, plus The Story Prize Spotlight Award (first given in the 2012/13 season), filed under the same season year, from the prize's season pages on thestoryprize.org. Year is the year the winner is announced: the 2005/06 season (books published in 2005) is 2006, the 2024/25 season is 2025. The 2025/26 season falls outside 2006-2025. Two title typos on the pages (Goodnght, This is How Your Lose Her) are corrected.

Organization: The Story Prize. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

The most recommended books of 2020

Shares the most books with