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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.

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Balzac's Lives
ByPeter Brooks

2020 • 2 Readers • 280 pages

Blindness

#1 of 2 in Blindness

Blindness
ByJosé Saramago,Giovanni Pontiero(Translator),+1 more

1995 • 778 Readers • 328 pages 4

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

2020 • 103 Readers • 599 pages 4.2

Cleanness

Cleanness
ByGarth Greenwell

2020 • 80 Readers • 225 pages 4

Corregidora

Corregidora
ByGayl Jones

1975 • 33 Readers • 185 pages 3.7

Mexican Gothic

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

2020 • 1,498 Readers • 10h 40m 3.8

On Anger

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

2020 • 5 Readers • 157 pages

Rodham

Rodham
ByCurtis Sittenfeld

2020 • 103 Readers • 417 pages 3.9

So Long, See You Tomorrow

So Long, See You Tomorrow
ByWilliam Maxwell

1980 • 70 Readers • 135 pages 3.6

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 • 15 Readers 4

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

1996 • 121 Readers 4.5

The Known World

The Known World
ByEdward P. Jones

2003 • 132 Readers • 388 pages 3.6

The Year of the French

#1 of 3 in The Thomas Flanagan Trilogy

The Year of the French
ByThomas Flanagan

1979 • 9 Readers • 516 pages

Want

Want
ByLynn Steger Strong

2020 • 43 Readers • 209 pages 3.6