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Amazon Editors' Best Books of the Year 2020

Amazon Editors' Best Books of the Year 2020 names 10 books. 7 of them also won or were shortlisted for an award.

1A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom by Brittany K. Barnettsource (opens in a new tab)
2Migrations by Charlotte McConaghysource (opens in a new tab)
3Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosbysource (opens in a new tab)
4Group by Christie Tatesource (opens in a new tab)
5The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennettsource (opens in a new tab)
6Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmiesource (opens in a new tab)
7Caste by Isabel Wilkersonsource (opens in a new tab)
8The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Darésource (opens in a new tab)
9Memorial by Bryan Washingtonsource (opens in a new tab)
10Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolkersource (opens in a new tab)

About the Amazon Editors' Best Books of the Year

2006 is the editors' Top 50 and 2007-2012 the editors' Top 100, taken from archived Amazon list pages (Wayback Machine); 2006-2010 ranks are printed on the page, 2011-2012 ranks cover only the press release's top 10. 2013-2023 hold the ranked Top 10 from Amazon's press releases and 2024-2025 the ranked Top 20 from About Amazon, because the full Top 100 for 2013 onward survives only as paginated Amazon search pages that the Wayback Machine did not capture.

Organization: Amazon. Official site (opens in a new tab)