Year-End Lists

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Best Fiction of 2021 The Booker Prize

Nonfiction 2021 Kirkus Prize

Fiction 2021 Kirkus Prize

Fiction 2021 Women's Prize

2021 Dublin Literary Award

2021 Dylan Thomas Prize

Fiction 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award

The Best Books Of 2020 Bustle

Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction BookPage

Best Books of 2020: Fiction BookPage

The Best Books of 2020 Thrillist

The Best Books of 2020 Harper’s Bazaar

The Best Books of 2020 Shondaland

Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020 Electric Lit

Favorite Novels of 2020 Electric Lit

The Best Books of 2020 HuffPost: Claire Fallon

The Best Books of 2020 Vogue

Best Books of 2020 Refinery29

Best Books of 2020 Boston Globe

The 15 Best Books of 2020 Vanity Fair

Favorite Books of 2020 Barack Obama

Best Books of 2020 Passerby

My Favorite Fiction of 2020 New Yorker: Katy Waldman

15 Favorite Books of 2020 A.V. Club

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