Our “best of the best” returns for 2020! We’ve scoured the end-of-year best book lists out there and narrowed them down into one handy guide.
Overwhelmed by what to read from the past year? We’ve gathered the fiction, nonfiction, and young adult titles we recommended in 2020 that also appear on one (or more) of the favorite lists from:
BookRiot, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Women & Children First, New York Times, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Washington Post, and Powell’s
Check out these “best of the best” books below!
Best of the Best 2020… FICTION
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
Appears on the “best of” lists from Washington Post, Kirkus, Women & Children First
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Powell’s, Library Journal, Kirkus, Washington Post, New York Times
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
BookRiot, Kirkus
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
New York Times, Women & Children First
A Girl Is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Powell’s
Best of the Best 2020… NONFICTION
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
Appears on the “best of” lists from Powell’s, Washington Post
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
Library Journal, Women & Children First
The Dragons, The Giant, The Women by Wayétu Moore
Publishers Weekly, New York Times
Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
Washington Post, New York Times, Women & Children First
Down Along With That Devil’s Bones by Connor Towne O’Neill
Library Journal
Best of the Best 2020… Children’s & YA
Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away by Meg Medina
Appears on the “best of” list from Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal
Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
Powell’s
Daring Darleen by Anne Nesbet
Publishers Weekly
The House on the Cerulean Sea by T. J. Klune
BookRiot, Women & Children First
Curious about the most popular books on the Reading Group Choices site in 2020? We’ve got the top two books from each month listed here!