Year-End Lists

The New Yorker: The Best Books We Read in 2020

• Cleanness
  Garth Greenwell
• Stranger Faces
  Namwali Serpell
• Want
  Lynn Steger Strong
• On Anger
  Agnes Callard [editor]
• Mexican Gothic
  Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Blindness
  José Saramago
• Children of Ash and Elm

  A History of the Vikings
  Neil Price
• Rodham
  Curtis Sittenfeld
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

  Learning to Learn
  Richard W. Hamming
• Balzac's Lives
  Peter Brooks
• The Year of the French
  Thomas Flanagan
• So Long, See You Tomorrow
  William Maxwell
• Corregidora
  Gayl Jones
• Something New Under the Sun

  An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World
  J.R. McNeill
• The Known World
  Edward P. Jones