The 10 Best Books of 2020

by New York Times

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10 books

The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.

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See the source list and commentary at www.nytimes.com

Fiction

A Children's Bible: A Novel

Lydia Millet, 2020

Deacon King Kong

James McBride, 2020

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell, 2020

Homeland Elegies

Ayad Akhtar, 2020

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett, 2020

Nonfiction

Hidden Valley Road

Robert Kolker, 2020

A Promised Land

Barack Obama, 2020

Shakespeare in a Divided America

What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future

James Shapiro, 2020

Uncanny Valley

Anna Wiener, 2020

War

How Conflict Shaped Us

Margaret MacMillan, 2020