Year-End Lists

Barack Obama: Favorite Books of 2020, as posted to Twitter

• Homeland Elegies
  Ayad Akhtar
• Jack
  Marilynne Robinson
• Caste

  The Origins of Our Discontents
  Isabel Wilkerson
• The Splendid and the Vile

  A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
  Erik Larson
• Luster
  Raven Leilani
• How Much of These Hills Is Gold
  C Pam Zhang
• Long Bright River
  Liz Moore
• Memorial Drive

  A Daughter's Memoir
  Natasha Trethewey
• Twilight of Democracy

  The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
  Anne Applebaum
• Deacon King Kong
  James McBride
• The Undocumented Americans
  Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• The Vanishing Half
  Brit Bennett
• The Glass Hotel
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Hidden Valley Road

  Inside the Mind of an American Family
  Robert Kolker
• The Ministry for the Future
  Kim Stanley Robinson
• Sharks in the Time of Saviors
  Kawai Strong Washburn
• Missionaries
  Phil Klay