NPR Best Book2020

Given by NPR Books

Other Names: NPR: Books We Love
70 Works 62,872 Books 3,091 Reviews ½ 4.0
Years:
All, 2023 (71), 2022 (72), 2021 (69), 2020 (70), 2019 (73), 2018 (38), 2017 (18), 2016 (14), 2015 (15), 2014 (19), 2013 (3)
WorkYear
The Heap: A Novel by Sean Adams
2020
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
2020
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
2020
Followers by Megan Angelo
2020
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
2020
The Regrets by Amy Bonnaffons
2020
Shiner by Amy Jo Burns
2020
Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America by Nora Shalaway Carpenter
2020
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
2020
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
2020
When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole
2020
One Night Two Souls Went Walking by Ellen Cooney
2020
Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford
2020
Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism by Seyward Darby
2020
The Boatman's Daughter by Andy Davidson
2020
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by Barbara Demick
2020
Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline
2020
At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop
2020
Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time by Ben Ehrenreich
2020
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
2020
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
2020
Heart of Junk by Luke Geddes
2020
Dark Blood Comes from the Feet by Emma J. Gibbon
2020
Lakewood by Megan Giddings
2020
A Spectral Hue by Craig Laurance Gidney
2020
Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach
2020
The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi by Richard Grant
2020
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
2020
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
2020
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
2020
Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson
2020
Sisters by Daisy Johnson
2020
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
2020
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
2020
Red Pill by Hari Kunzru
2020
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
2020
The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars by Jo Marchant
2020
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda
2020
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
2020
A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet
2020
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
2020
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
2020
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell
2020
Weather by Jenny Offill
2020
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
2020
Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States by Colin Quinn
2020
Black Bottom Saints: A Novel by Alice Randall
2020
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
2020
One Life by Megan Rapinoe
2020
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
2020
Hearts of Oak by Eddie Robson
2020
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt
2020
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland
2020
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
2020
Blackwood by Michael Farris Smith
2020
Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith
2020
And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges by Amber Sparks
2020
Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth by Brian Stelter
2020
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
2020
Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan
2020
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories by Laura Van den Berg
2020
Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
2020
Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
2020
Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession by Sarah Weinman
2020
Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults by Mitch Weiss
2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
2020
Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner
2020
Processed Cheese: A Novel by Stephen Wright
2020
Tokyo Ueno Station by Miri Yū
2020
The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata
2020

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