Year-End Lists

The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2020

• The Aosawa Murders
  Riku Onda
• The Beauty in Breaking
  Michele Harper
• The Beauty of Your Face
  Sahar Mustafah
• Becoming Wild

  How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
  Carl Safina
• Beheld
  TaraShea Nesbit
• The Biggest Bluff

  How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
  Maria Konnikova
• Black Wave

  Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
  Kim Ghattas
• Blacktop Wasteland
  S.A. Cosby
• The Book of Eels

  Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
  Patrik Svensson
• The Boy in the Field
  Margot Livesey
• Breasts and Eggs
  Mieko Kawakami
• A Burning
  Megha Majumdar
• Burning Down the House

  Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party
  Julian E. Zelizer
• Caste

  The Origins of Our Discontents
  Isabel Wilkerson
• A Children's Bible
  Lydia Millet
• Cleanness
  Garth Greenwell
• Deacon King Kong
  James McBride
• The Dead Are Arising

  The Life of Malcolm X
  Les Payne and Tamara Payne
• The Death of Jesus
  J.M. Coetzee
• The Death of Vivek Oji
  Akwaeke Emezi
• Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
  Anne Case & Angus Deaton
• Desert Notebooks

  A Road Map for the End of Time
  Ben Ehrenreich
• Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
  Deepa Anappara
• A Dominant Character

  The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane
  Samanth Subramanian
• The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
  Wayétu Moore
• The Duke Who Didn't
  Courtney Milan
• Earthlings
  Sayaka Murata
• Eat the Buddha

  Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
  Barbara Demick
• The End of Everything

  (Astrophysically Speaking)
  Katie Mack
• Everywhere You Don't Belong
  Gabriel Bump
• Exercise of Power

  American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World
  Robert M. Gates
• Fallout

  The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
  Lesley M.M. Blume
• Feed
  Tommy Pico
• Felon
  Reginald Dwayne Betts
• The Glass Kingdom
  Lawrence Osborne
• Hamnet
  Maggie O'Farrell
• The Hardhat Riot

  Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
  David Paul Kuhn
• Hidden Valley Road

  Inside the Mind of an American Family
  Robert Kolker
• His Only Wife
  Peace Adzo Medie
• Homeland Elegies
  Ayad Akhtar
• How Much of These Hills Is Gold
  C Pam Zhang
• Hurricane Season
  Fernanda Melchor
• The Inevitability of Tragedy

  Henry Kissinger and His World
  Barry Gewen
• Jack
  Marilynne Robinson
• Just Us

  An American Conversation
  Claudia Rankine
• Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
  Cho Nam-Joo
• The King at the Edge of the World
  Arthur Phillips
• Little Eyes
  Samanta Schweblin
• The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
  Adrian Tomine
• Luster
  Raven Leilani
• The Man Who Ran Washington

  The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
  Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
• Man of My Time
  Dalia Sofer
• Memorial
  Bryan Washington
• Memorial Drive

  A Daughter's Memoir
  Natasha Trethewey
• The Memory Monster
  Yishai Sarid
• The Mercies
  Kirin Millwood Hargrave
• Minor Detail
  Adania Shibli
• The Mirror & the Light
  Hilary Mantel
• Missionaries
  Phil Klay
• Monogamy
  Sue Miller
• 97,196 Words
  Emmanuel Carrère
• Notes on a Silencing
  Lacy Crawford
• Obit
  Victoria Chang
• Overground Railroad

  The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
  Candacy Taylor
• Owls of the Eastern Ice

  A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
  Jonathan C. Slaght
• A Peculiar Indifference

  The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America
  Elliott Currie
• A Pilgrimage to Eternity

  From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
  Timothy Egan
• A Promised Land
  Barack Obama
• The Quiet Americans

  Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts
  Scott Anderson
• Reaganland

  America's Right Turn 1976-1980
  Rick Perlstein
• Real Life
  Brandon Taylor
• Red Pill
  Hari Kunzru
• The Saddest Words

  William Faulkner's Civil War
  Michael Edward Gorra
• Saint X
  Alexis Schaitkin
• Sea Wife
  Amity Gaige
• The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
  John F. Callahan and Marc C. Conner (editors)
• Shakespeare in a Divided America

  What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
  James Shapiro
• Sharks in the Time of Saviors
  Kawai Strong Washburn
• Shuggie Bain
  Douglas Stuart
• The Sirens of Mars

  Searching for Life on Another World
  Sarah Stewart Johnson
• Sisters
  Daisy Johnson
• Soul Full of Coal Dust

  A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
  Chris Hamby
• The Splendid and the Vile

  A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
  Erik Larson
• The Third Rainbow Girl

  The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
  Emma Copley Eisenberg
• This Is All I Got

  A New Mother's Search for Home
  Lauren Sandler
• Tokyo Ueno Station
  Yu Miri
• The Tunnel
  A.B. Yehoshua
• Uncanny Valley
  Anna Wiener
• The Undocumented Americans
  Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• Until the End of Time

  Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
  Brian Greene
• The Vanishing Half
  Brit Bennett
• The Vapors

  A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice
  David Hill
• The WEIRDest People in the World

  How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
  Joseph Henrich
• Wagnerism

  Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
  Alex Ross
• War

  How Conflict Shaped Us
  Margaret MacMillan
• Who Gets In and Why

  A Year Inside College Admissions
  Jeffrey Selingo
• Why I Don't Write
  Susan Minot
• A Woman Like Her

  The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star
  Sanam Maher
• Writers & Lovers
  Lily King
• Yellow Bird

  Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country
  Sierra Crane Murdoch