In case you're as curious as we are about what different publications deem the “Best Books of 2020,” we've compiled a list below. What were your favorite reads this year? Leave us a comment letting us know. Some of the titles named the Best of 2020 are listed below; you'll find a much wider selection at Overdrive, here.
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Library Collection: Print, Large Print, and CD audiobook
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The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
Library Collection: Print, Large Print, and CD audiobook
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The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Library Collection: Print, Large Print, and CD audiobook
OverDrive and Libby: eBook
All Adults Here by Emma Straub
Library Collection: Print and Large Print
OverDrive and Libby: eBook and audiobook
Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory
Library Collection: Print
OverDrive and Libby: eBook
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir by John Bolton
Library Collection: Print and CD audiobook
OverDrive and Libby: eBook and audiobook
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Library Collection: Print, Large Print, and CD audiobook
OverDrive and Libby: eBook and audiobook
Open Book by Jessica Simpson
Library Collection: Print and CD audiobook
OverDrive and Libby: eBook and audiobook
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Library Collection: Print
OverDrive and Libby: eBook and audiobook
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
Library Collection: Print, Large Print, and CD audiobook
OverDrive and Libby: eBook and audiobook
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Library Collection: Print
OverDrive and Libby: eBook and audiobook
Weather by Jenny Offill
Library Collection: Print
OverDrive and Libby: eBook and audiobook
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino
Library Collection: Print
OverDrive and Libby: eBook and audiobook
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Library Collection: Print and CD audiobook
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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Library Collection: Print and Large Print
OverDrive and Libby: eBook and audiobook
- Publishers Weekly
- School Library Journal
- Library Journal
- NPR
- BookRiot
- GoodReads
- Barnes and Noble
- Amazon
- Kirkus (different categories available in drop down)
- Booklist
- NYPL
- Oprah
- Time
- Five Books
- Vulture
- Good Housekeeping
- The New Yorker
- NYT Top 25 Children’s Books
- NYT Critics’ Top 20
- Harpers Bazaar
- Washington Post Top 10
- Washington Post Fiction
- Washington Post Nonfiction
- The Guardian
- The Telegraph
- Parade
- Town and Country
- Cosmopolitan UK
- Entertainment Weekly
- Audiofile Best Audiobooks
- Vanity Fair
- Smithsonian
- Electric Lit Best NF
- NYT Best Historical Fiction
- Shondaland’s Best LGBTQ Authored Books 2020
- Kirkus + Rolling Stone Best Music Books
- Lit Hub’s Ultimate Best of 2020– aggregates the most featured titles across 41 other lists.
- Vulture Comedy Books
- Crime Reads – several categories including True Crime, Espionage and Psychological Thrillers
- BookPage’s Superlative Books of 2020
- BookPage’s Reader’s Favorites of 2020
- Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020
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