NPR's staff picks the Best Books of 2020 (fiction)

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NPR's staff picks the Best Books of 2020 (fiction)

NPR had its staff pick their top books of the year. Here's a sampling — some great new reads here! Full list: https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2020

Leave the World Behind

1 Leave the World Behind

Rumaan Alam

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell

Trouble the Saints

3 Trouble the Saints

Alaya Dawn Johnson

Luster

Raven Leilani

Headliners

Lucy Parker

Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart

The New Wilderness

7 The New Wilderness

Diane Cook

Anxious People: A Novel

8 Anxious People: A Novel

Fredrik Backman

Swimming in the Dark

9 Swimming in the Dark

Tomasz Jedrowski

The Pull of the Stars

10 The Pull of the Stars

Emma Donoghue

Monogamy

Sue Miller

Snapped

Alexa Martin

The City We Became

13 The City We Became

N.K. Jemisin

Sisters

Daisy Johnson

Ring Shout

P. Djeli Clark

Party of Two

16 Party of Two

Jasmine Guillory

The Faithless Hawk

17 The Faithless Hawk

Margaret Owen

Mexican Gothic

18 Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Conjure Women

19 Conjure Women

Afia Atakora

Network Effect

20 Network Effect

Martha Wells

So We Can Glow

21 So We Can Glow

Leesa Cross-Smith

Interior Chinatown

22 Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu

Take a Hint, Dani Brown

23 Take a Hint, Dani Brown

Talia Hibbert

Rodham

Curtis Sittenfeld

They Went Left

25 They Went Left

Monica Hesse

New Waves

Kevin Nguyen

Barn 8: A Novel

27 Barn 8: A Novel

Deb Olin Unferth

Amnesty: A Novel

28 Amnesty: A Novel

Aravind Adiga

Slippery Creatures

29 Slippery Creatures

KJ Charles

To Calais, In Ordinary Time

30 To Calais, In Ordinary Time

James Meek

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