Year-End Lists

The Guardian: Best Fiction of 2020

[see also 2021 • 2017]

• Hamnet
  Maggie O'Farrell
• The Pull of the Stars
  Emma Donoghue
• The Silence
  Don DeLillo
• Weather
  Jenny Offill
• Exit Management
  Naomi Booth
• Summerwater
  Sarah Moss
• The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again
  M. John Harrison
• Summer
  Ali Smith
• The Mirror & the Light
  Hilary Mantel
• This Mournable Body
  Tsitsi Dangarembga
• The Shadow King
  Maaza Mengiste
• Jack
  Marilynne Robinson
• The Vanishing Half
  Brit Bennett
• Utopia Avenue
  David Mitchell
• Mr Wilder and Me
  Jonathan Coe
• Rodham
  Curtis Sittenfeld
• Inside Story
  Martin Amis
• Mayflies
  Andrew O'Hagan
• Such a Fun Age
  Kiley Reid
• Exciting Times
  Naoise Dolan
• Shuggie Bain
  Douglas Stuart
• The Young Team
  Graeme Armstrong
• Rainbow Milk
  Paul Mendez
• Burnt Sugar
  Avni Doshi
• Real Life
  Brandon Taylor
• The Liar's Dictionary
  Eley Williams
• The Lying Life of Adults
  Elena Ferrante
• Hurricane Season
  Fernanda Melchor
• The Discomfort of Evening
  Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
• Discomfort of Evening
  Daniel Kahneman
• Little Eyes
  Samanta Schweblin
• Benjamín Labatut
  When We Cease to Understand the World
• The Dominant Animal
  Kathryn Scanlan
• Modern Times
  Cathy Sweeney
• Reality and Other Stories
  John Lanchester
• The Voice in My Ear
  Frances Leviston
• Good Citizens Need Not Fear
  Maria Reva
• The Bass Rock
  Evie Wyld
• Piranesi
  Susanna Clarke