Year-End Lists

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2020
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Why We Can't Sleep - Ada Calhoun

The Best Books Of 2020 Bustle

Notes on a Silencing - Lacy Crawford

Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction BookPage

The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

Best Books of 2020: Fiction BookPage

How Much of These Hills Is Gold - C Pam Zhang

The Best Books of 2020 Thrillist

Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi

The Best Books of 2020 Harper’s Bazaar

Luster - Raven Leilani

The Best Books of 2020 Shondaland

Sisters in Hate - Seyward Darby

Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020 Electric Lit

The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

Favorite Novels of 2020 Electric Lit

The Best Books of 2020 HuffPost: Claire Fallon

A Burning - Megha Majumdar

The Best Books of 2020 Vogue

Memorial - Bryan Washington

Best Books of 2020 Refinery29

Best Books of 2020 Boston Globe

Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The 15 Best Books of 2020 Vanity Fair

Favorite Books of 2020 Barack Obama

Luster - Raven Leilani

Best Books of 2020 Passerby

My Favorite Fiction of 2020 New Yorker: Katy Waldman

Jack - Marilynne Robinson

15 Favorite Books of 2020 A.V. Club

The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel

The 10 Best Books of 2020 Entertainment Weekly

The 15 Best Books of 2020 Vox: Constance Grady

The Best Books of 2020 Slate: Dan Kois

The Best Books of 2020 Slate: Laura Miller

The 10 Best Books of 2020 Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli

The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

The 10 Best Books of 2020 Vulture: Molly Young

Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi

The 10 Best Books of 2020 Wall Street Journal

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