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Year archive
Best books of 2020
Books selected by independent literary juries and editorial teams in 2020, gathered into one transparent, source-linked reading list. The chronology uses the award year for prizes and list year for editorial recommendations.
- Selections
- 399
- Authors
- 394
- Lists & prizes
- 16
Showing 337–384 of 399
The Space Between Worlds
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The Sprawl: Reconsidering The Weird American Suburbs
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The Stranger Diaries
Edgar Award for Best Novel
The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love & Truth
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The Things They Fancied
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The Undefeated
Randolph Caldecott Medal
The Undocumented Americans
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The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
The Voyage Of The Morning Light: A Novel
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The Wax Pack: On The Open Road In Search Of Baseball's Afterlife
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The Women In Black: A Novel
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The Worst Best Man
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They Went Left
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Thin Places: Essays From In Between
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This Is My America
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This Is One Way To Dance: Essays
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To Calais, In Ordinary Time
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Tokyo Ueno Station: A Novel
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Tomboyland: Essays
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Transcendent Kingdom: A Novel
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Trouble The Saints: A Novel
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Twins
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Uncanny Valley
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Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
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Unspeakable Acts: True Tales Of Crime, Murder, Deceit, And Obsession
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Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, And The Birth Of 24-Hour News
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Upright Women Wanted
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Utopia Avenue: A Novel
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Vesper Flights
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Wagnerism: Art And Politics In The Shadow Of Music
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Want: A Novel
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War
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We Are Water Protectors
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We Ride Upon Sticks: A Novel
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Weather: A Novel
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What Are You Going Through: A Novel
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What Can A Body Do?: How We Meet The Built World
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When No One Is Watching: A Thriller
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When Stars Are Scattered
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Where The Wild Ladies Are
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Where Things Touch: A Meditation On Beauty
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