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Vogue Best Books of the Year 2020

Vogue Best Books of the Year 2020 names 17 books. 8 of them also won or were shortlisted for an award.

  1. A Burning by Megha Majumdarsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. How To Be A Good Girl by Jamie Hoodsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. In the Land of Men by Adrienne Millersource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alamsource (opens in a new tab)
  5. Luster by Raven Leilanisource (opens in a new tab)
  6. Memorial by Bryan Washingtonsource (opens in a new tab)
  7. Nobody Will Tell You This But Me by Bess Kalbsource (opens in a new tab)
  8. Open Secrets by Sheila Kohlersource (opens in a new tab)
  9. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuartsource (opens in a new tab)
  10. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reidsource (opens in a new tab)
  11. Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Mosessource (opens in a new tab)
  12. The Apartment by Teddy Waynesource (opens in a new tab)
  13. The Bass Rock by Evie Wyldsource (opens in a new tab)
  14. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larsonsource (opens in a new tab)
  15. Uncanny Valley by Anna Wienersource (opens in a new tab)
  16. We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Coopersource (opens in a new tab)
  17. What Kind of Woman by Kate Baersource (opens in a new tab)

About the Vogue Best Books of the Year

Vogue's year-end best books article each year, unranked, stored as one Best Books list. Vogue blocks AI fetchers in robots.txt, so every page was read from web.archive.org copies of vogue.com, taken just after each year closed. 2014, 2015, and 2017 are book critic Megan O'Grady's ten best; 2018 is editors' favorite reads of the year; 2019 is titled The 21 Best Novels of 2019; 2020-2024 are editors' and writers' picks. 2021, 2023, and 2024 are running lists that Vogue built through the year and closed as the year's best. 2022 and 2025 are left out: their pages still carried the headline "So Far" in every archived copy after the year ended. No year-end list was found for 2016 or before 2014. Vogue's seasonal, monthly, gift, and genre book lists are left out. Some headings lack an author or misspell one; those values come from yearendlists.com, rizzolibookstore.com, hachettebookgroup.com (Less, 2018), and Wikipedia (The Vanity Fair Diaries, 2018). 2015 and 2017 rows were read from yearendlists.com and checked against the archived Vogue pages.

Organization: Vogue. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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