Year-End Lists

Lindsay Baker: The Best Books of the Year 2020 as published by BBC Culture

• A Promised Land
  Barack Obama
• The Best of Me
  David Sedaris
• Ready Player Two
  Ernest Cline
• Reality and Other Stories
  John Lanchester
• Transcendent Kingdom
  Yaa Gyasi
• Mediocre

  The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
  Ijeoma Oluo
• White Ivy
  Susie Yang
• Sweet Dreams

  The Story of the New Romantics
  Dylan Jones
• Dearly
  Margaret Atwood
• The New Wilderness
  Diane Cook
• This Mournable Body
  Tsitsi Dangarembga
• Burnt Sugar
  Avni Doshi
• The Shadow King
  Maaza Mengiste
• Shuggie Bain
  Douglas Stuart
• Mayflies
  Andrew O'Hagan
• Piranesi
  Susanna Clarke
• The Vanishing Half
  Brit Bennett
• More Than a Woman
  Caitlin Moran
• The First Woman
  Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
• Earthlings
  Sayaka Murata
• Daddy
  Emma Cline
• Jack
  Marilynne Robinson
• Poor
  Caleb Femi
• That Old Country Music
  Kevin Barry
• I Am Not Your Baby Mother
  Candice Brathwaite
• Must I Go
  Yiyun Li
• Rodham
  Curtis Sittenfeld
• How Much of These Hills Is Gold
  C Pam Zhang
• American Poison

  How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise
  Eduardo Porter
• You People
  Nikita Lalwani
• Rainbow Milk
  Paul Mendez
• Wow, No Thank You.
  Samantha Irby
• A Children's Bible
  Lydia Millet
• If I Had Your Face
  Frances Cha
• The Glass Hotel
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Redhead by the Side of the Road
  Anne Tyler
• The Collected Stories
  Lorrie Moore
• Sharks in the Time of Saviors
  Kawai Strong Washburn
• Weather
  Jenny Offill
• Real Life
  Brandon Taylor
• Such a Fun Age
  Kiley Reid
• Motherwell

  A Girlhood
  Deborah Orr
• Apeirogon
  Colum McCann
• Cleanness
  Garth Greenwell
• Hood Feminism

  Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
  Mikki Kendall
• The Mirror & the Light
  Hilary Mantel
• House of Glass

  The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
  Hadley Freeman
• Actress
  Anne Enright
• Hamnet
  Maggie O'Farrell
• Where the Wild Ladies Are
  Aoko Matsuda
• The Death of Comrade President
  Alain Mabanckou
• Minor Feelings

  An Asian American Reckoning
  Cathy Park Hong
• A Long Petal of the Sea
  Isabel Allende
• Our House Is on Fire

  Greta Thunberg's Call to Save the Planet
  Jeanette Winter