Best Fiction Books of 2020

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel And Now She’s Gone by Rachel Howzell Hall Godshot by Chelsea Bieker Anxious People by Fredrik Backman The Golden Cage by Camilla Lackberg Apeirogon by Colum McCann The Guest List by Lucy Foley The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell A Beautiful Crime by Christopher Bollen Harrow the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel Home Before Dark by Riley Sager The Boy in the Field by Margot Livesey Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar A Burning by Megha Majumdar The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha Cleanness by Garth Greenwell Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu The Cold Millions by Jess Walter The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford Schwab Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano It’s Not All Downhill from Here by Terry Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh McMillan Deacon King Kong by James McBride Jack by Marilynne Robinson A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner Dear Child by Romy Hausmann Just Like You by Nick Hornby The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton The Last Flight by Julie Clark Earthlings by Sayata Murata Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson Likes by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum The End of October by Lawrence Wright Long Bright River by Liz Moore The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women’s The Lost Love Song by Minnie Darke Olympic Team by Elise Hooper Luster by Raven Leilani A Girl is a Body of Water by Jennifer The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante Nansubuga Makumbi Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare Best Fiction Books of 2020

Make Russia Great Again by Christopher Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles Buckley The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Memorial by Bryan Washington Vampires by Grady Hendrix A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Summer by Ali Smith The Midnight Library by Matt Haig The Switch by Beth O’Leary The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert Monogamy by Sue Miller To Be A Man: Stories by Nicole Krauss The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell The New Wilderness by Diane Cook Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Nights When Nothing Happened by Simon Han Weather by Jenny Offill The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow White Ivy by Susie Yang One by One by Ruth Ware When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Writers and Lovers by Laurie King Jones You Had me at Hola by Alexis Daria Pew by Catherine Lacey

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth Pretty Things by Janelle Brown Real Life by Brandon Taylor The Resisters by Gish Jen Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld The Searcher by Tana French The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart