Best Books of 2020

by The Washington Post

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10 books

Of all the excellent books this year, these stood out.

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Caste

The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson, 2020

The Cold Millions

Jess Walter, 2020

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell, 2020

Hidden Valley Road

Inside the Mind of an American Family

Robert Kolker, 2020

Homeland Elegies

Ayad Akhtar, 2020

Memorial Drive

A Daughter's Memoir

Natasha Trethewey, 2020

Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi, 2020

Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

Claudio Saunt, 2020

Vesper Flights

Helen Macdonald, 2020

Writers & Lovers

Lily King, 2020