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The Ultimate Best Books of 2020 List from 41 Lists

  • December 19, 2021
  • 61 Books
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  • lithub

Lithub's Emily Temple has read 41 lists totalling 952 books to distill the most frequently included titles that zigzag between fiction and non-fiction and back again.

Shelf
Intimations
What Are You Going Through
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
Notes on a Silencing
The Cold Millions
Vesper Flights
Homie
Rodham
My Dark Vanessa
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Utopia Avenue
His Only Wife
The Only Good Indians
The Night Watchman
The New Wilderness
When No One is Watching
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
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Jack

The Splendid and the Vile
Actress
Plain Bad Heroines
Blacktop Wasteland
The Undocumented Americans
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Mexican Gothic
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Interior Chinatown
Real Life
Writers & Lovers
Minor Feelings
The Death of Vivek Oji
Such a Fun Age
The Glass Hotel
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Piranesi
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
Uncanny Valley
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Just Us

A Promised Land
A Children's Bible
The City We Became
The Lying Life of Adults
Hidden Valley Road
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Shuggie Bain
Cleanness
The Office of Historical Corrections
Weather
The Mirror & the Light
A Burning
Homeland Elegies
Memorial
Caste
Hamnet
Deacon King Kong
Luster
Transcendent Kingdom
Leave the World Behind
The Vanishing Half