The complete edition: 2020 in books

Happy New Year!

We wouldn't blame you at all if you'd like to close the book (or slam it shut) on 2020, with nary a thought backwards.

However, if you fear you've missed a year-end roundup of any sort, we've gathered all the retrospectives on our newswire in one spot for you.

Just the books, please

• The ultimate best-of-2020 book list 

• The 2020 NPR book concierge 

• A Knock at Midnight is Amazon's favorite book of 2020

• The New York Times shares its favorite books of 2020

• Congrats to the Goodreads Choice Awards winners of 2020!

• Barack Obama's favorite books of 2020 

 

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In the headlines 

• The top literary stories of 2020: 1 through 10, 11 through 30, and 31 through 50 

• Revisiting the book awards of 2020 

• The literary deaths of 2020 

• Literary Hub's favorite book adaptations of 2020

What we looked up  

• The Guardian's most influential words of 2020 

• No surprise: "Pandemic" is Merriam-Webster's 2020 word of the year

• Dictionary.com also chooses "pandemic" as its word of the year 

• Oxford English Dictionary won't choose a word of the year for 2020

How we felt at the halfway point

• Amazon’s best books of 2020 (so far) 

• You tell us: The best book you've read so far this year 

• You tell us (again): 2020’s best book so far, part I 

• You tell us (again): 2020’s best book so far, part II