Entertainment Weekly's 10 best books of 2020
The top 3 according to 3 votes from people: The Glass Hotel — Emily St. John Mandel · Transcendent Kingdom — Yaa Gyasi · Red Comet — Heather Clark. (Updated Nov 15, 2025.)
The ten books Entertainment Weekly named the best of the year in December 2020.
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Top 10
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The Glass Hotel — Emily St. John Mandel
No. 1. A novel around a Ponzi scheme.
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Transcendent Kingdom — Yaa Gyasi
No. 2. A neuroscientist from a Ghanaian family in Alabama.
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Red Comet — Heather Clark
No. 9. A biography of Sylvia Plath.
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Homeland Elegies — Ayad Akhtar
No. 3. The son of Pakistani immigrants in the US.
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Leave the World Behind — Rumaan Alam
No. 4. A holiday during a mysterious blackout.
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Memorial — Bryan Washington
No. 5. A Houston couple at a turning point.
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Hamnet — Maggie O'Farrell
No. 6. Shakespeare's wife and son.
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Deacon King Kong — James McBride
No. 7. Brooklyn in 1969.
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Daddy — Emma Cline
No. 8. Short stories.
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A Burning — Megha Majumdar
No. 10. A debut novel about a Kolkata woman accused of terrorism.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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Comments (5)
Leave the World Behind, eng en spannend.
Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi blijft goed.
Hamnet van Maggie O'Farrell, prachtig boek.
Goede lijst om in de winter te lezen.
The Glass Hotel, mooi gelaagd.