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The Best Books We Read in 2020 by The New Yorker

Old and new fiction and nonfiction as collected by The New Yorker.

Art of Doing Science and Engineering

2003 • 72 Readers • 376 pages 4.4

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Balzac's Lives
ByPeter Brooks

2020 • 2 Readers • 280 pages

Blindness

Blindness
ByJosé Saramago,Giovanni Pontiero(Translator)

1995 • 538 Readers • 349 pages 4

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

2020 • 72 Readers • 599 pages 4.2

Cleanness

Cleanness
ByGarth Greenwell

2020 • 48 Readers • 225 pages 3.9

Corregidora

Corregidora
ByGayl Jones

1975 • 23 Readers • 185 pages 3.6

Mexican Gothic

Mexican Gothic
BySilvia Moreno-Garcia,Dan Sociu(Translator)

2020 • 1,076 Readers 3.7

On Anger

On Anger
ByAgnes Callard(Editor),Judith Butler(Contributor)

2020 • 2 Readers • 157 pages

Rodham

Rodham
ByCurtis Sittenfeld

2020 • 70 Readers • 417 pages 3.9

So Long, See You Tomorrow

So Long, See You Tomorrow
ByWilliam Maxwell

1980 • 37 Readers • 135 pages 3.7

Something New Under the Sun

Something New Under the Sun
ByJohn Robert McNeill

2000 • 4 Readers • 448 pages

Stranger Faces

Stranger Faces
ByNamwali Serpell

2020 • 9 Readers

The Known World

The Known World
ByEdward P. Jones

2003 • 94 Readers • 388 pages 3.4

The Year of the French

The Year of the French
ByThomas Flanagan

1979 • 4 Readers • 516 pages

Want

Want
ByLynn Steger Strong

2020 • 25 Readers • 209 pages 3.5