Year-End Lists

Dan Kois: The Best Books of 2020, as published by Slate

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2019]

• The Animals in That Country
  Laura Jean McKay
• Barn 8
  Deb Olin Unferth
• Cool Town

  How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
  Grace Elizabeth Hale
• F*ckface

  And Other Stories
  Leah Hampton
• Homie
  Danez Smith
• A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

  A Year of Keeping Bees
  Helen Jukes
• The Museum of Whales You Will Never See

  And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums
  A. Kendra Greene
• Nothing To See
  Pip Adam
• The Office of Historical Corrections
  Danielle Evans
• Or What You Will
  Jo Walton