The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of (2020) [Collection]
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English | ISBN: N/A | 99 Ebooks | EPUB | 1.17 GB
100 Notable Books of 2020: The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review .
Bolded titles are still missing from the collection.
* indicates Ten Best list
- 1. The Aosawa Murders - Riku Onda. Translated by Alison Watts. (Bitter Lemon)
- 2. The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir - Michele Harper. (Riverhead)
- 3. The Beauty of Your Face - Sahar Mustafah. (Norton)
- 4. Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace - Carl Safina. (Holt)
- 5. Beheld - TaraShea Nesbit. (Bloomsbury)
- 6. The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win - Maria Konnikova. (Penguin Press)
- 7. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East - Kim Ghattas. (Holt)
- 8. Blacktop Wasteland - S. A. Cosby. (Flatiron)
- 9. The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination With the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World - Patrik Svensson. (Ecco)
- 10. The Boy In The Field - Margot Livesey. (HarperCollins)
- 11. Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami. Translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd. (Europa)
- 12. A Burning - Megha Majumdar. (Knopf)
- 13. Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party - Julian E. Zelizer. (Penguin Press)
- 14. Caste: The Origins of our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson. (Random House)
- 15. * A Children's Bible - Lydia Millet. (Norton)
- 16. Cleanness - Garth Greenwell. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- 17. * Deacon King Kong - James McBride. (Riverhead)
- 18. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X - Les Payne and Tamara Payne. (Liveright)
- 19. The Death of Jesus - J. M. Coetzee. (Viking)
- 20. The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi. (Riverhead)
- 21. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism - Anne Case and Angus Deaton. (Princeton University)
- 22. Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time - Ben Ehrenreich. (Counterpoint)
- 23. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line - Deepa Anappara. (Random House)
- 24. A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane - Samanth Subramanian. (Norton)
- 25. The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir - Wayétu Moore. (Graywolf)
- 26. The Duke Who Didn't - Courtney Milan. (Self-published)
- 27. Earthlings - Sayaka Murata. Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori. (Grove Press)
- 28. Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town - Barbara Demick. (Random House)
- 29. The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) - Katie Mack. (Scribner)
- 30. Everywhere You Don't Belong - Gabriel Bump. (Algonquin)
- 31. Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World - Robert M. Gates. (Knopf)
- 32. Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World - Lesley M. M. Blume. (Simon & Schuster)
- 33. Feed - Tommy Pico. (Tin House)
- 34. Felon: Poems - Reginald Dwayne Betts. (Norton)
- 35. The Glass Kingdom - Lawrence Osborne. (Hogarth)
- 36. The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution - David Paul Kuhn. (Oxford University)
- 37. * Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell. (Knopf)
- 38. * Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker. (Doubleday)[/u
- 39. His Only Wife - Peace Adzo Medie. (Algonquin)
- 40. * Homeland Elegies - Ayad Akhtar. (Little, Brown)
- 41. How Much of These Hills Is Gold - C Pam Zhang. (Riverhead)
- 42. Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor. Translated by Sophie Hughes. (New Directions)
- 43. The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World - Barry Gewen. (Norton)
- 44. Jack - Marilynne Robinson. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- 45. Just Us: An American Conversation - Claudia Rankine. (Graywolf)
- 46. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 - Cho Nam-Joo. Translated by Jamie Chang. (Liveright)
- 47. The King at the Edge of the World - Arthur Phillips. (Random House)
- 48. Little Eyes - Samanta Schweblin. Translated by Megan McDowell. (Riverhead)
- 49. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist - Adrian Tomine. (Drawn + Quarterly)
- 50. Luster - Raven Leilani. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- 51. Man of My Time - Dalia Sofer. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- 52. The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III - Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. (Doubleday)
- 53. Memorial - Bryan Washington. (Riverhead)
- 54. Memorial Drive: A Memoir - Natasha Trethewey. (Ecco)
- 55. The Memory Monster - Yishai Sarid. Translated by Yardenne Greenspan. (Restless Books)
- 56. The Mercies - Kiran Millwood Hargrave. (Little, Brown)
- 57. Minor Detail - Adania Shibli. Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette. (New Directions)
- 58. The Mirror & the Light - Hilary Mantel. (Holt)
- 59. Missionaries - Phil Klay. (Penguin Press)
- 60. Monogamy - Sue Miller. (Harper/HarperCollins)
- 61. 97,196 Words: Essays - Emmanuel Carrère. Translated by John Lambert. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- 62. Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir - Lacy Crawford. (Little, Brown)
- 63. Obit: Poems - Victoria Chang. (Copper Canyon.
- 64. Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America - by Candacy Taylor. (Abrams)
- 65. Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl - Jonathan C. Slaght. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- 66. A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America - Elliott Currie. (Metropolitan)
- 67. A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith - Timothy Egan. (Viking)
- 68. * A Promised Land - Barack Obama. (Crown)
- 69. The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War — a Tragedy in Three Acts - Scott Anderson. (Doubleday)
- 70. Reaganland: America’s Right Turn, 1976-1980 - Rick Perlstein. (Simon & Schuster)
- 71. Real Life - Brandon Taylor. (Riverhead)
- 72. Red Pill - Hari Kunzru. (Knopf)
- 73. The Saddest Words: William Faulkner’s Civil War - Michael Gorra. (Liveright)
- 74. Saint X - Alexis Schaitkin. (Celadon)
- 75. Sea Wife - Amity Gaige. (Knopf)
- 76. The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison - Edited by John F. Callahan and Marc C. Conner. (Random House)
- 77. * Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future - James Shapiro. (Penguin Press)
- 78. Sharks in the Time of Saviors - Kawai Strong Washburn. (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- 79. Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart. (Grove)
- 80. The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World - Sarah Stewart Johnson. (Crown)
- 81. Sisters - Daisy Johnson. (Riverhead)
- 82. Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia - Chris Hamby. (Little, Brown)
- 83. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz - Erik Larson. (Crown)
- 84. The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia - Emma Copley Eisenberg. (Hachette)
- 85. This Is All I Got: A New Mother’s Search for Home - Lauren Sandler. (Random House)
- 86. Tokyo Ueno Station - Yu Miri. Translated by Morgan Giles. (Riverhead)
- 87. The Tunnel - A. B. Yehoshu. Translated by Stuart Schoffman. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- 88. * Uncanny Valley: A Memoir - Anna Wiener. (MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- 89. The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. (One World)
- 90. Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe - Brian Greene. (Knopf)
- 91. * The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett. (Riverhead)
- 92. 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. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- 93. Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music - Alex Ross. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- 94. * War: How Conflict Shaped Us - Margaret MacMillan. (Random House)
- 95. The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous - Joseph Henrich. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- 96. Who Gets in and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions - Jeffrey Selingo. (Scribner)
- 97. Why I Don't Write: And Other Stories - Susan Minot. (Knopf)
- 98. A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star - Sanam Maher. (Melville House)
- 99. Writers & Lovers - Lily King. (Grove)
- 100. Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country - Sierra Crane Murdoch. (Random House)