These Are the Best Books of 2020

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20 books

Books are both solace and inspiration. They light the way, even while enabling temporary escape from life’s worries, which is why here, we wanted to share 20 of the best books 2020 had to offer.

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African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song (Loa #333)

Kevin Young, 2020

A Beautiful Crime

Christopher Bollen, 2020

The Boy in the Field

Margot Livesey, 2020

Caste

The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson, 2020

The Cold Millions

Jess Walter, 2020

Deacon King Kong

James McBride, 2020

A Girl is A Body of Water

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, 2020

Homeland Elegies

Ayad Akhtar, 2020

To Be a Man

Nicole Krauss, 2020

Intimations

Zadie Smith, 2020

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V. E. Schwab, 2020

Just Us

An American Conversation

Claudia Rankine, 2020

Little Eyes

Samanta Schweblin, 2020

Luster

Raven Leilani, 2020

The Lying Life of Adults

Elena Ferrante, 2021

The Office of Historical Corrections

A Novella and Stories

Danielle Evans, 2020

Plain Bad Heroines

Emily M. Danforth, 2020

Red Comet

The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

Heather Clark, 2020

Sharks in the Time of Saviors

Kawai Strong Washburn, 2020

What Are You Going Through

Sigrid Nunez, 2020