This list rounds up plenty of inspiring memoirs, unsettling dystopian fiction, critical race theory, and poetry that will keep you busy for months to come. These are the best books of 2020 as collected by the BBC's Lindsay Baker.
 Our House Is on Fire Our House Is on Fire
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 The Death of Comrade President
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 House of Glass
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Motherwell Motherwell
| 5 | 1 read | |
 The collected stories of Lorrie Moore
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 Redhead by the Side of the Road
| 3.44 | 18 reads | |
 Rainbow Milk
| 4 | 8 reads | |
 You People
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 American Poison
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 Must I Go
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 I Am Not Your Baby Mother I Am Not Your Baby Mother
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 That Old Country Music
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 Poor
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 Jack
| 4.33 | 3 reads | |
 Daddy: stories
| 3.8 | 7 reads | |
 The First Woman
| 4 | 2 reads | |
 More Than a Woman
| 4 | 2 reads | |
 Mayflies
| 3.68 | 13 reads | |
 This Mournable Body
| 3.67 | 4 reads | |
 Sweet Dreams
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 Reality and Other Stories Reality and Other Stories
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 The Best of Me
| 4.38 | 18 reads | |
 A Long Petal of the Sea
| 4 | 23 reads | |
 Minor Feelings
| 4.13 | 35 reads | |
 Where the Wild Ladies Are
| 4.4 | 9 reads | |
 Hamnet
| 4.14 | 135 reads | |
 Actress
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 The Mirror & the Light
| 4.27 | 19 reads | |
 Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
| 4.27 | 60 reads | |
 Cleanness
| 3.9 | 13 reads | |
 Apeirogon
| 4.5 | 11 reads | |
 Such a Fun Age
| 3.87 | 228 reads | |
 Real Life
| 4.17 | 36 reads | |
 Weather
| 3.48 | 36 reads | |
 Sharks in the Time of Saviors
| 4.21 | 20 reads | |
 The Glass Hotel
| 3.82 | 177 reads | |
 If I Had Your Face
| 3.77 | 55 reads | |
 A Children's Bible
| 3.65 | 32 reads | |
 Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
| 4.05 | 40 reads | |
 How Much of These Hills Is Gold
| 4.17 | 32 reads | |
 Rodham
| 4.03 | 22 reads | |
 Earthlings
| 3.59 | 138 reads | |
 The Vanishing Half
| 4.19 | 297 reads | |
 Piranesi
| 4.23 | 780 reads | |
 Shuggie Bain
| 4.33 | 78 reads | |
 The Shadow King
| 3.8 | 8 reads | |
 The New Wilderness
| 3.67 | 10 reads | |
 Dearly
| 3.23 | 16 reads | |
 White Ivy
| 3.21 | 14 reads | |
 Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America | 4.36 | 29 reads | |
 Transcendent Kingdom
| 4.19 | 98 reads | |
 Ready Player Two
| 3.05 | 282 reads | |
 A Promised Land
| 4.27 | 150 reads |
