LitHub assessed what books have appeared most often in various “best books of the year” lists to create an ultimate list for 2020. I look through to see which books come out on top, which I've read and which I still want to read. Click ‘Show More’ for info & links.

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The Ultimate Best Books of 2020 List by Emily Temple: [ Ссылка ]

The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 (according to Time Magazine):
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My review video of The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel:
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Books discussed & purchase links:

25 lists:
Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half
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20 lists:
Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind
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17 lists:
Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom
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16 lists:
Raven Leilani, Luster
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James McBride, Deacon King Kong
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15 lists:
Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet
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Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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14 lists:
Bryan Washington, Memorial
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13 lists:
Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies
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Megha Majumdar, A Burning
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Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & The Light
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Jenny Offill, Weather
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12 lists:
Danielle Evans, The Office of Historical Corrections
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Garth Greenwell, Cleanness
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Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain
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Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
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Robert Kolker, Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
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11 lists:
Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults
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N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became
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Lydia Millet, A Children’s Bible
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Barack Obama, A Promised Land
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Claudia Rankine, Just Us: An American Conversation
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Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
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C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills is Gold
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10 lists:
Susanna Clarke, Piranesi
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Samantha Irby, Wow, No Thank You: Essays
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Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel
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Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age
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9 lists:
Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji
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Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings
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Lily King, Writers & Lovers
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Brandon Taylor, Real Life
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Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown
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8 lists:
Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism
Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic
Les Payne and Tamara Payne, The Dead are Arising
V. E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Karla Corejo Villavinencio, The Undocumented Americans
Jess Walter, The Cold Millions

7 lists:
S.A. Cosby, Blacktop Wasteland
Emily Danforth, Plain Bad Heroines
Anne Enright, Actress
Erik Larson, The Splendid and the Vile
Marilynne Robinson, Jack
Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Kevin Young, ed., African-American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song

6 lists:
Alyssa Cole, When No One is Watching
Diane Cook, The New Wilderness
Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing
Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman
Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians
Peace Adzo Medie, His Only Wife
David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue
Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, The Giant, The Women: A Memoir
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, illustrated by Fumi Nakamura, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa
Curtis Sittenfeld, Rodham
Danez Smith, Homie: Poems
Zadie Smith, Intimations: Six Essays
Adrian Tomine, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist


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