Books 2020

TitleAuthorShortlisted
Torto AradoItamar Vieira Junior
Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário winner
Prêmio Oceanos winner
Shuggie BainDouglas Stuart
Booker Prize for Fiction winner
National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Mermaid of Black ConchMonique Roffey
Costa Book Award for Novel winner
MilkmanAnna Burns
International Dublin Literary Award winner
A Memory Called EmpireArkady Martine
Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
Interior ChinatownCharles Yu
National Book Award for Fiction winner
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm XLes Payne
National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Where Reasons EndYiyun Li
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award winner
The Nickel BoysColson Whitehead
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner
HamnetMaggie O'Farrell
Women's Prize for Fiction winner
The Mirror & the LightHilary Mantel
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Women's Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The New WildernessDiane Cook
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
This Mournable BodyTsitsi Dangarembga
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Burnt SugarAvni Doshi
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Shadow KingMaaza Mengiste
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Real LifeBrandon Taylor
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Who They WasGabriel Krauze
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
ApeirogonColum McCann
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Such a Fun AgeKiley Reid
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Redhead by the Side of the RoadAnne Tyler
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Love and Other Thought ExperimentsSophie Ward
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
How Much of These Hills Is GoldC Pam Zhang
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
PiranesiSusanna Clarke
Costa Book Award for Novel shortlisted
Peace TalksTim Finch
Costa Book Award for Novel shortlisted
The Less DeadDenise Mina
Costa Book Award for Novel shortlisted
The Silence of the GirlsPat Barker
International Dublin Literary Award shortlisted
DisorientalNégar Djavadi
International Dublin Literary Award shortlisted
Washington BlackEsi Edugyan
International Dublin Literary Award shortlisted
An American MarriageTayari Jones
International Dublin Literary Award shortlisted
History of ViolenceÉdouard Louis
International Dublin Literary Award shortlisted
The FriendSigrid Nunez
International Dublin Literary Award shortlisted
There ThereTommy Orange
International Dublin Literary Award shortlisted
All the Lives We Never LivedAnuradha Roy
International Dublin Literary Award shortlisted
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the DeadOlga Tokarczuk
International Dublin Literary Award shortlisted
The City in the Middle of the NightCharlie Jane Anders
Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Gideon the NinthTamsyn Muir
Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Light BrigadeKameron Hurley
Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
MiddlegameMira Grant
Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Ten Thousand Doors of JanuaryAlix E. Harrow
Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Leave the World BehindRumaan Alam
National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
A Children's BibleLydia Millet
National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Secret Lives of Church LadiesDeesha Philyaw
National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian TerritoryClaudio Saunt
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The UndyingAnne Boyer
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award shortlisted
Deaf Republic: PoemsIlya Kaminsky
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award shortlisted
The World Doesn't Require YouRion Amilcar Scott
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award shortlisted
Rusty BrownChris Ware
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award shortlisted
The Dutch HouseAnn Patchett
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Topeka SchoolBen Lerner
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted
DominicanaAngie Cruz
Women's Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Girl, Woman, OtherBernardine Evaristo
Women's Prize for Fiction shortlisted
A Thousand ShipsNatalie Haynes
Women's Prize for Fiction shortlisted
WeatherJenny Offill
Women's Prize for Fiction shortlisted