This list rounds up plenty of inspiring memoirs, unsettling dystopian fiction, critical race theory, and poetry that will keep you busy for months to come. These are the best books of 2020 as collected by the BBC's Lindsay Baker.
 Our House Is on Fire Our House Is on Fire
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 The Death of Comrade President
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 House of Glass
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Motherwell Motherwell
| 5 | 1 read | |
 The collected stories of Lorrie Moore
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 Redhead by the Side of the Road
| 3.82 | 30 reads | |
 Rainbow Milk
| 4 | 8 reads | |
 You People
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 American Poison
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 Must I Go
| 3 | 2 reads | |
 I Am Not Your Baby Mother
| 5 | 2 reads | |
 That Old Country Music
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 Poor
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 Jack
| 4.25 | 3 reads | |
 Daddy: stories
| 3.19 | 15 reads | |
 The First Woman
| 4 | 2 reads | |
 More Than a Woman
| 4.33 | 3 reads | |
 Mayflies
| 3.8 | 23 reads | |
 This Mournable Body
| 3.75 | 5 reads | |
 Sweet Dreams
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 Reality and Other Stories Reality and Other Stories
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 The Best of Me
| 4.38 | 18 reads | |
 A Long Petal of the Sea
| 4.14 | 35 reads | |
 Minor Feelings
| 4.15 | 56 reads | |
 Where the Wild Ladies Are
| 3.67 | 20 reads | |
 Hamnet
| 4.18 | 200 reads | |
 Actress
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 The Mirror & the Light
| 4.37 | 40 reads | |
 Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
| 4.27 | 85 reads | |
 Cleanness
| 3.92 | 20 reads | |
 Apeirogon
| 4.21 | 14 reads | |
 Such a Fun Age
| 3.81 | 339 reads | |
 Real Life
| 4.05 | 47 reads | |
 Weather
| 3.49 | 59 reads | |
 Sharks in the Time of Saviors
| 4.21 | 20 reads | |
 The Glass Hotel
| 3.84 | 258 reads | |
 If I Had Your Face
| 3.84 | 70 reads | |
 A Children's Bible
| 3.66 | 57 reads | |
 Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
| 3.97 | 61 reads | |
 How Much of These Hills Is Gold
| 4.05 | 38 reads | |
 Rodham
| 3.89 | 37 reads | |
 Earthlings
| 3.64 | 221 reads | |
 The Vanishing Half
| 4.14 | 441 reads | |
 Piranesi
| 4.24 | 1,142 reads | |
 Shuggie Bain
| 4.3 | 114 reads | |
 The Shadow King
| 3.5 | 10 reads | |
 The New Wilderness
| 3.59 | 19 reads | |
 Dearly: New Poems
| 3.56 | 22 reads | |
 White Ivy
| 3.31 | 21 reads | |
 Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America | 4.29 | 42 reads | |
 Transcendent Kingdom
| 4.15 | 137 reads | |
 Ready Player Two
| 3.09 | 389 reads | |
 A Promised Land
| 4.32 | 236 reads |
