The Best Books We Read in 2020

by The New Yorker

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15 books

The fiction and nonfiction, old and new, that kept us going.

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

Cleanness

Garth Greenwell, 2020

Stranger Faces

Namwali Serpell, 2020

Want

Lynn Steger Strong, 2020

On Anger

Agnes Callard, 2020

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 2020

Blindness

José Saramago, 2013

Children of Ash and Elm

A History of the Vikings

Neil Price, 2020

Rodham

Curtis Sittenfeld, 2021

Art of Doing Science and Engineering

Learning to Learn

Richard R. Hamming, 2003

Balzac's Lives

Peter Brooks, 2020

The Year of the French

Thomas Flanagan, 2012

So Long, See You Tomorrow

William Maxwell, 2011

Corregidora

Gayl Jones, 2019

Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century Series)

J. R. McNeill, 2001

The Known World LP

Edward P. Jones, 2004