The New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2020

[see also 100 Notable Books of 2020, The 10 Best Books of 2019, 100 Notable Books of 2018, 10 Best Books of 2018, 10 Best Books of 2017, 100 Notable Books of 2017, 10 Best Books of 2016, 10 Best Books of 2015, 10 Best Books of 2012]

• A Children's Bible
  Lydia Millet
• Deacon King Kong
  James McBride
• Hamnet
  Maggie O'Farrell
• Homeland Elegies
  Ayad Akhtar
• The Vanishing Half
  Brit Bennett
• Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
  Robert Kolker
• A Promised Land
  Barack Obama
• Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
  James Shapiro
• Uncanny Valley
  Anna Wiener
• War: How Conflict Shaped Us
  Margaret MacMillan

Time Magazine: The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020

[see also The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020, The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020, The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s, The 10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s, The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019, The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019, Best Books of 2018, Top 20 Books of 2017]

1. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
   Isabel Wilkerson
2. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
   Cathy Park Hong
3. The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
   Wayétu Moore
4. Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
   Natasha Trethewey
5. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
   Les Payne and Tamara Payne
6. Vesper Flights
   Helen Macdonald
7. The Undocumented Americans
   Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
8. Having and Being Had
   Eula Biss
9. Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945
   Volker Ullrich
10. Just Us: An American Conversation
    Claudia Rankine

The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2020

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2020, The 10 Best Books of 2019, 100 Notable Books of 2018, 10 Best Books of 2018, 10 Best Books of 2017, 100 Notable Books of 2017, 10 Best Books of 2016, 10 Best Books of 2015, 10 Best Books of 2012]

• 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

Time Magazine: The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020

[see also The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020, The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020, The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s, The 10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s, The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019, The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019, Best Books of 2018, Top 20 Books of 2017]

1. The Vanishing Half
   Brit Bennett
2. Shuggie Bain
   Douglas Stuart
3. The Mirror & the Light
   Hilary Mantel
4. A Children's Bible
   Lydia Millet
5. Homeland Elegies
   Ayad Akhtar
6. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
   Laura van den Berg
7. A Burning
   Megha Majumdar
8. Deacon King Kong
   James McBride
9. Where the Wild Ladies Are
   Aoko Matsuda
10. Breasts and Eggs
    Mieko Kawakami

The Washington Post: 10 Best Books of 2020

[see also 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020, 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020, Best Books of 2019, 100 Notable Books of 2018, 10 Best Books of 2018, 10 Best Books of 2017, 10 Best Books of 2015]

• 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

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020

[see also 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020, 10 Best Books of 2020, Best Books of 2019, 100 Notable Books of 2018, 10 Best Books of 2018, 10 Best Books of 2017, 10 Best Books of 2015]

• Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
  David S. Reynolds
• Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
  Thomas Rid
• All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir
  Kathy Valentine
• The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump
  Mary Jordan
• Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
  Anonymous
• Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
  Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
• The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
  Sam Wasson
• The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
  Maria Konnikova
• Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
  James Nestor
• The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
  Patrik Svensson
• Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State
  Barton Gellman
• The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
  Les Payne and Tamara Payne
• The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
  Eric Cervini
• Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
  Bill Buford
• Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
  Dolly Parton
• Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
  Barbara Demick
• A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
  Eric Jay Dolin
• Galileo: And the Science Deniers
  Mario Livio
• Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy
  Margaret Sullivan
• His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
  Jon Meacham
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
  Mikki Kendall
• How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
  Heather Cox Richardson
• Humankind: A Hopeful History
  Rutger Bregman
• I You We Them: Volume 1: Walking into the World of the Desk Killer
  Dan Gretton
• Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
  Tom Burgis
• The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
  Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
• Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters
  Rosanna Warren
• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
  Layla Saad
• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
  Cathy Park Hong
• One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965
  Jia Lynn Yang
• Pelosi
  Molly Ball
• The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism
  Thomas Frank
• The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking
  Adam Sisman
• A Promised Land
  Barack Obama
• Rage
  Bob Woodward
• Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference
  David Shimer
• The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
  Erik Larson
• Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
  Amy Stanley
• Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
  Mary L. Trump
• Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
  Anne Applebaum
• Uncanny Valley
  Anna Wiener
• Untamed
  Glennon Doyle
• A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
  Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig
• We Have Been Harmonized: Life in China's Surveillance State
  Kai Strittmatter
• What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing--What Birds Are Doing, and Why
  David Allen Sibley
• What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
  Carlos Lozada
• Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
  Lulu Miller
• Wow, No Thank You.
  Samantha Irby
• Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City
  Fang Fang
• You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters
  Kate Murphy

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020

[see also 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020, 10 Best Books of 2020, Best Books of 2019, 100 Notable Books of 2018, 10 Best Books of 2018, 10 Best Books of 2017, 10 Best Books of 2015]

• Actress
  Anne Enright
• Afterland
  Mai Der Vang
• All Adults Here
  Emma Straub
• And I Do Not Forgive You
  Amber Sparks
• The Awkward Black Man
  Walter Mosley
• Big Summer
  Jennifer Weiner
• A Burning
  Megha Majumdar
• A Children's Bible
  Lydia Millet
• Cleanness
  Garth Greenwell
• Crooked Hallelujah
  Kelli Jo Ford
• The Daughters of Erietown
  Connie Schultz
• Days of Distraction
  Alexandra Chang
• Deacon King Kong
  James McBride
• Dear Edward
  Ann Napolitano
• The Death of Vivek Oji
  Akwaeke Emezi
• The Evening and the Morning
  Ken Follett
• Exciting Times
  Naoise Dolan
• A Girl is A Body of Water
  Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
• The Glass Hotel
  Emily St. John Mandel
• How Much of These Hills Is Gold
  C Pam Zhang
• Interior Chinatown
  Charles Yu
• The King at the Edge of the World
  Arthur Phillips
• Leave the World Behind
  Rumaan Alam
• The Lying Life of Adults
  Elena Ferrante
• Make Russia Great Again
  Christopher Buckley
• Memorial
  Bryan Washington
• Mexican Gothic
  Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Mirror & the Light
  Hilary Mantel
• The New Wilderness
  Diane Cook
• The Night Watchman
  Louise Erdrich
• Nights When Nothing Happened
  Simon Han
• The Office of Historical Corrections
  Danielle Evans
• Piranesi
  Susanna Clarke
• Plain Bad Heroines
  Emily M. Danforth
• The Pull of the Stars
  Emma Donoghue
• The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story
  Darin Strauss
• Ready Player Two
  Ernest Cline
• Real Life
  Brandon Taylor
• The Resisters
  Gish Jen
• Rodham
  Curtis Sittenfeld
• Run Me to Earth
  Paul Yoon
• Shuggie Bain
  Douglas Stuart
• Simon the Fiddler
  Paulette Jiles
• Such a Fun Age
  Kiley Reid
• The Taste of Sugar
  Marisel Vera
• Utopia Avenue
  David Mitchell
• Valentine
  Elizabeth Wetmore
• The Vanishing Half
  Brit Bennett
• Weather
  Jenny Offill
• White Ivy
  Susie Yang

Time Magazine: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020

[see also The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020, The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020, The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s, The 10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s, The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019, The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019, Best Books of 2018, Top 20 Books of 2017]

• Actress
  Anne Enright
• The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
  Deirdre Mask
• African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song
  Kevin Young (editor)
• Afterlife
  Julia Alvarez
• Agency
  William Gibson
• Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
  Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
• Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
  Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman
• The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
  Patrik Svensson
• Breasts and Eggs
  Mieko Kawakami
• Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity
  Porochista Khakpour
• A Burning
  Megha Majumdar
• Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
  Anne Helen Petersen
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
  Isabel Wilkerson
• A Children's Bible
  Lydia Millet
• The City We Became
  N.K. Jemisin
• Cleanness
  Garth Greenwell
• Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
  Laila Lalami
• Crooked Hallelujah
  Kelli Jo Ford
• Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
  Talia Lavin
• Days of Distraction
  Alexandra Chang
• Deacon King Kong
  James McBride
• The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
  Les Payne and Tamara Payne
• Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
  Deepa Anappara
• The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
  Wayétu Moore
• Earthlings
  Sayaka Murata
• The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide
  Zerlina Maxwell
• Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
  Merlin Sheldrake
• Enter the Aardvark
  Jessica Anthony
• Followers
  Megan Angelo
• A Girl is A Body of Water
  Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
• The Glass Hotel
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
  Conor Dougherty
• Having and Being Had
  Eula Biss
• Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
  Robert Kolker
• His Only Wife
  Peace Adzo Medie
• Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945
  Volker Ullrich
• Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
  Zora Neale Hurston
• Homeland Elegies
  Ayad Akhtar
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
  Mikki Kendall
• How to Pronounce Knife
  Souvankham Thammavongsa
• I Don't Want to Die Poor
  Michael Arceneaux
• I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
  Laura van den Berg
• If I Had Your Face
  Frances Cha
• Interior Chinatown
  Charles Yu
• Intimations
  Zadie Smith
• Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
  Michelle Bowdler
• Jack
  Marilynne Robinson
• Just Us: An American Conversation
  Claudia Rankine
• Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
  Cho Nam-Joo
• Leave the World Behind
  Rumaan Alam
• Let's Never Talk About This Again
  Sara Faith Alterman
• Luster
  Raven Leilani
• The Lying Life of Adults
  Elena Ferrante
• Memorial
  Bryan Washington
• Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
  Natasha Trethewey
• Migrations
  Charlotte McConaghy
• Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
  Cathy Park Hong
• The Mirror & the Light
  Hilary Mantel
• My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
  Jenn Shapland
• Nerve: Adventures in the Science of Fear
  Eva Holland
• The Night Watchman
  Louise Erdrich
• Nights When Nothing Happened
  Simon Han
• Notes on a Silencing
  Lacy Crawford
• Obit
  Victoria Chang
• Oligarchy
  Scarlett Thomas
• One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965
  Jia Lynn Yang
• One to Watch
  Kate Stayman-London
• The Only Good Indians
  Stephen Graham Jones
• Open Book
  Jessica Simpson
• Party of Two
  Jasmine Guillory
• The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers
  Mark Gevisser
• Piranesi
  Susanna Clarke
• Postcolonial Love Poem
  Natalie Diaz
• The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
  Alicia Garza
• Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
  Rick Perlstein
• Recollections of My Nonexistence
  Rebecca Solnit
• Run Me to Earth
  Paul Yoon
• A Saint from Texas
  Edmund White
• Sex and Vanity
  Kevin Kwan
• She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs
  Sarah Smarsh
• Shuggie Bain
  Douglas Stuart
• The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
  Erik Larson
• The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
  Peniel E. Joseph
• To Be a Man
  Nicole Krauss
• Tokyo Ueno Station
  Yu Miri
• Topics of Conversation
  Miranda Popkey
• The Undocumented Americans
  Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now
  Joshua Wong
• Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
  Martha S. Jones
• The Vanishing Half
  Brit Bennett
• Vesper Flights
  Helen Macdonald
• Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
  Morgan Jerkins
• Want
  Lynn Steger Strong
• We Ride Upon Sticks
  Quan Barry
• Weather
  Jenny Offill
• Where the Wild Ladies Are
  Aoko Matsuda
• Why We Swim
  Bonnie Tsui
• Wow, No Thank You.
  Samantha Irby
• You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
  Alexis Coe
• 150 Glimpses of the Beatles
  Craig Brown

Powell's Books: Best Fiction of 2020

• The Pull of the Stars
  Emma Donoghue
• Indelicacy
  Amina Cain
• Actress
  Anne Enright
• Deacon King Kong
  James McBride
• A Small Crowd of Strangers
  Joanna Rose
• Fracture
  Andrés Neuman
• The Vanishing Half
  Brit Bennett
• Beach Read
  Emily Henry
• Leave the World Behind
  Rumaan Alam
• Circe
  Madeline Miller
• My Dark Vanessa
  Kate Elizabeth Russell
• A Girl is A Body of Water
  Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
• City of Girls
  Elizabeth Gilbert
• How Much of These Hills Is Gold
  C Pam Zhang
• Hamnet
  Maggie O'Farrell
• Little Gods
  Meng Jin
• Sharks in the Time of Saviors
  Kawai Strong Washburn
• The Women in Black
  Madeleine St John
• Luster
  Raven Leilani
• Rules for Being Dead
  Kim Powers
• 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
  Elif Shafak
• Kingdomtide
  Rye Curtis
• Godshot
  Chelsea Bieker
• Walking on the Ceiling
  Aysegül Savas