Year-End Lists

Shelf Awareness: Best Books of 2020

Fiction

• The City We Became
  N.K. Jemisin
• Crooked Hallelujah
  Kelli Jo Ford
• Homeland Elegies
  Ayad Akhtar
• Hurricane Season
  Fernanda Melchor
• Interior Chinatown
  Charles Yu
• Luster
  Raven Leilani
• The Only Good Indians
  Stephen Graham Jones
• Piranesi
  Susanna Clarke
• Real Life
  Brandon Taylor
• Revolutions of All Colors
  Dewaine Farria

Nonfiction

• African American Poetry

  250 Years of Struggle & Song
  Kevin Young (editor)
• The Beauty in Breaking
  Michele Harper
• The Book of Eels

  Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
  Patrik Svensson
• Caste

  The Origins of Our Discontents
  Isabel Wilkerson
• Homie
  Danez Smith
• Me and White Supremacy

  Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
  Layla Saad
• Memorial Drive

  A Daughter's Memoir
  Natasha Trethewey
• Notes on a Silencing
  Lacy Crawford
• Something That May Shock and Discredit You
  Daniel M. Lavery
• Veritas

  A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus's Wife
  Ariel Sabar