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indybest books Fiction. From ‘Shuggie Bain’ to ‘The Mirror and the Light’, read these best novels of 2020 from Waterstones, Bookshop, Blackwells and more.
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The Best Books of 2020: Fiction. Posted on 30th November 2020 by Mark Skinner. From the triumphant release of Hilary Mantel's The Mirror & the Light in March to the appearance of Rumaan Alam's scintillating Leave the World Behind in November, book publishing has defied the chaos and privations of 2020 to deliver a stellar selection of titles.
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- Weather by Jenny Offill. (Knopf) 36 Rave • 24 Positive • 2 Mixed. Read an interview with Jenny Offill here. “… tiny in size and immense in scope, radically disorienting yet reassuringly humane, strikingly eccentric and completely irresistible … A narrator and a novel that hum with anxiety and pulse with dread are nonetheless hilarious, warm, and lovable.
- Cleanness by Garth Greenwell. (FSG) 38 Rave • 11 Positive • 3 Mixed • 1 Pan. Listen to Garth Greenwell read from Cleanness here. “… incandescent … Anyone who read Greenwell’s first novel, What Belongs to You (2016), knows that his writing about sex is altogether scorching.
- The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel. (Knopf) 29 Rave • 22 Positive • 6 Mixed. Watch an interview with Emily St. John Mandel here. “… a novel that’s so absorbing, so fully realized that it draws you out of your own constricted situation and expands your sense of possibilities.
- The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel. (Henry Holt) 33 Rave • 12 Positive • 7 Mixed • 1 Pan. “…magnificent … The portrait of Thomas Cromwell…now concludes with a novel of epic proportions, every bit as thrilling, propulsive, darkly comic and stupendously intelligent as its predecessors … orking with and against our foreknowledge, Mantel keeps us on the brink, each day to be invented … The Mirror & the Light is generously self-sufficient—to read this alone would hardly be skimping: it is four or five books in itself.
Dec 15, 2020 · Yes, using reviews drawn from more than 150 publications, over the next two weeks we’ll be revealing the most critically-acclaimed books of 2020, in the categories of (deep breath): Memoir & Biography; Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror; Short Story Collections; Essay Collections; Graphic Literature; Poetry; Mystery & Crime; Literature in ...
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Here are all the New York Times fiction bestsellers from 2020. Instead of just the current best seller list, which you can find all over the place, I’ve compiled a list of every book that has appeared on the New York Times Fiction Best Sellers list in 2020 for Hardcover Fiction. Note: The week count in this list stops on the last week of 2020.
Nov 19, 2020 · R eading fiction in 2020 was an act of defiance—of turning our attention away from the catastrophes playing out around us to engage in a quiet, imaginative act. And the year’s best fiction...
This year’s Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction was the closest contest in the history of the awards. Your winner—by five votes—is The Midnight Library, author Matt Haig’s wildly inventive blend of literary and speculative fiction.
