Year-End Lists

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2020 Books

Molly Young: The 10 Best Books of 2020

09 December 2020

Molly Young: The 10 Best Books of 2020, as published by New York Magazine’s Vulture

[see also 2019]

  1. The Undocumented Americans
    Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
  2. Fraternity
    Benjamin Nugent
  3. Romance in Marseille
    Claude McKay
  4. Piranesi
    Susanna Clarke
  5. My Mother's House
    Francesca Momplaisir
  6. The Great Offshore Grounds
    Vanessa Veselka
  7. The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice
    Fredrik deBoer
  8. Lakewood
    Megan Giddings
  9. Interior Chinatown
    Charles Yu
  10. The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping
    Samantha Harvey

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