Year-End Lists
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Publishers Weekly
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10 Best Books of 2026
The Mercury Prize
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2026 Award
Kirkus Prize
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Nonfiction 2026
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2020 Books
Washington Post: 10 Best Books of 2020
19 November 2020
The Washington Post
:
10 Best Books of 2020
Book lists in other years:
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2021
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2019
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2016
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2015
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2014
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2013
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2012
Also from
the Washington Post
in 2020:
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction
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50 Notable Works of Fiction
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Movies
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TV Shows
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Poetry
Caste
The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
The Cold Millions
Jess Walter
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
Hidden Valley Road
Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker
Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar
Memorial Drive
A Daughter's Memoir
Natasha Trethewey
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi
Unworthy Republic
The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
Claudio Saunt
Vesper Flights
Helen Macdonald
Writers & Lovers
Lily King
