# Entertainment Weekly's 10 best books of 2020

The ten books Entertainment Weekly named the best of the year in December 2020.

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- Nov 15, 2025 · Thijs V.
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## Top 10

1. **The Glass Hotel — Emily St. John Mandel** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 1. A novel around a Ponzi scheme.
2. **Transcendent Kingdom — Yaa Gyasi** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 2. A neuroscientist from a Ghanaian family in Alabama.
3. **Red Comet — Heather Clark** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 9. A biography of Sylvia Plath.
4. **Homeland Elegies — Ayad Akhtar** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 3. The son of Pakistani immigrants in the US.
5. **Leave the World Behind — Rumaan Alam** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 4. A holiday during a mysterious blackout.
6. **Memorial — Bryan Washington** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 5. A Houston couple at a turning point.
7. **Hamnet — Maggie O'Farrell** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 6. Shakespeare's wife and son.
8. **Deacon King Kong — James McBride** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 7. Brooklyn in 1969.
9. **Daddy — Emma Cline** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 8. Short stories.
10. **A Burning — Megha Majumdar** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 10. A debut novel about a Kolkata woman accused of terrorism.

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