Posted on November 23, 2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The New York Times has also released its favorite books of the year.
Here are the top ten, though you'll want to continue to the original post for a quick explanation of what resonated with the reviewers.
Fiction
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A Children’s Bible, by Lydia Millet.
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Deacon King Kong, by James McBride.
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Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell.
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Homeland Elegies, by Ayad Akhtar.
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The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett.
Nonfiction
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Hidden Valley Road, by Robert Kolker.
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A Promised Land, by Barack Obama.
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Shakespeare in a Divided America, by James Shapiro.
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Uncanny Valley, by Anna Wiener.
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War: How Conflict Shaped Us, by Margaret MacMillan.
These ten titles were chosen from the Times’s 100 notable books of 2020.
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