Year-End Lists

Harper’s Bazaar: The Best Books of 2020

[see also 2023 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

• The Lying Life of Adults
  Elena Ferrante
• Rodham
  Curtis Sittenfeld
• Transcendent Kingdom
  Yaa Gyasi
• The Glass Hotel
  Emily St. John Mandel
• My Dark Vanessa
  Kate Elizabeth Russell
• The Death of Vivek Oji
  Akwaeke Emezi
• Real Life
  Brandon Taylor
• Wow, No Thank You.
  Samantha Irby
• Death in Her Hands
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• It's Not All Downhill From Here
  Terry McMillan
• The Vanishing Half
  Brit Bennett
• Hood Feminism

  Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
  Mikki Kendall
• Fairest
  Meredith Talusan
• Can't Even

  How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
  Anne Helen Petersen
• The Resisters
  Gish Jen
• Drifts
  Kate Zambreno
• Chosen Ones
  Veronica Roth
• I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
  Laura van den Berg
• Just Like You
  Nick Hornby
• Perfect Tunes
  Emily Gould
• The Disaster Tourist
  Yun Ko-eun
• It Is Wood, It Is Stone
  Gabriella Burnham
• Empire of Wild
  Cherie Dimaline
• Lakewood
  Megan Giddings
• How Much of These Hills Is Gold
  C Pam Zhang
• These Women
  Ivy Pochoda
• Here for It

  Or, How to Save Your Soul in America
  R. Eric Thomas
• You Exist Too Much
  Zaina Arafat
• Luster
  Raven Leilani
• The Office of Historical Corrections
  Danielle Evans
• Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.
  Joyce Carol Oates
• Plain Bad Heroines
  Emily M. Danforth
• White Tears/Brown Scars

  How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
  Ruby Hamad
• Sisters in Hate

  American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism
  Seyward Darby
• Memorial
  Bryan Washington
• Beach Read
  Emily Henry
• The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes
  Elissa R. Sloan
• When No One Is Watching
  Alyssa Cole
• The Comeback
  Ella Berman
• The Talented Miss Farwell
  Emily Gray Tedrowe
• What Are You Going Through
  Sigrid Nunez
• Sleep Donation
  Karen Russell
• Nights When Nothing Happened
  Simon Han
• Dearly
  Margaret Atwood
• Daddy
  Emma Cline
• Untamed
  Glennon Doyle
• Caste

  The Origins of Our Discontents
  Isabel Wilkerson
• Cleanness
  Garth Greenwell
• Leave the World Behind
  Rumaan Alam
• Memorial Drive

  A Daughter's Memoir
  Natasha Trethewey
• White Ivy
  Susie Yang
• The Majesties
  Tiffany Tsao
• Ring Shout
  P. Djèlí Clark
• All Adults Here
  Emma Straub
• My Mother's House
  Francesca Momplaisir
• The Space Between Worlds
  Micaiah Johnson
• Like a Bird
  Fariha Róisín
• If I Had Your Face
  Frances Cha