Best fiction of 2020

by The Guardian

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10 books

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

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell, 2020

The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again

M. John Harrison, 2020

Summer

Ali Smith, 2021

The Shadow King

Maaza Mengiste, 2020

Utopia Avenue

David Mitchell, 2020

Shuggie Bain

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

Douglas Stuart, 2021

The Lying Life of Adults

Elena Ferrante, 2020

When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamin Labatut, 2021

The Dominant Animal

Kathryn Scanlan, 2020

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke, 2020