# The New York Times' 10 best books of 2020

The ten books the New York Times Book Review picked as the best of 2020: five fiction and five non-fiction.

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- Feb 14, 2021 · moviejunkie_wandering
- https://even.best/en/l/1628/the-new-york-times-10-best-books-of-2020

## Top 10

1. **A Children's Bible — Lydia Millet** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
2. **Deacon King Kong — James McBride** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
3. **Hamnet — Maggie O'Farrell** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
4. **Homeland Elegies — Ayad Akhtar** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
5. **The Vanishing Half — Brit Bennett** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
6. **Hidden Valley Road — Robert Kolker** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
7. **A Promised Land — Barack Obama** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
8. **Shakespeare in a Divided America — James Shapiro** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
9. **Uncanny Valley — Anna Wiener** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
10. **War — Margaret MacMillan** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.

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