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Slate Best Books of the Year 2020
Slate Best Books of the Year 2020 names 10 books. 10 of them also won or were shortlisted for an award.
- A Promised Landsource (opens in a new tab)
- Castesource (opens in a new tab)
- Deacon King Kongsource (opens in a new tab)
- Fathoms: The World in the Whalesource (opens in a new tab)
- Hidden Valley Roadsource (opens in a new tab)
- Homeland Elegiessource (opens in a new tab)
- Memorial Drivesource (opens in a new tab)
- Piranesisource (opens in a new tab)
- Such a Fun Agesource (opens in a new tab)
- Summersource (opens in a new tab)
About the Slate Best Books of the Year
One list a year: Slate's own top books of the year, stored as category Best Books. 2012-2014 are the Slate Book Review Top 10, picked by the Book Review's editors. 2015-2025 are book critic Laura Miller's 10 best (or favorite) books of the year. 2006-2011 are missing: Slate ran only staff picks pieces then, where writers named books they enjoyed, often older titles, so they are left out. Also left out: the yearly Slate staff picks, Overlooked Books, Dan Kois's and other critics' personal lists (Katy Waldman, Mark O'Connell), and audiobook, comics and book-jacket lists. All lists come from slate.com pages; none is ranked. Two author names misspelled on the page are corrected (Ottessa Moshfegh 2018, Michelle de Kretser 2022).
Organization: Slate. Official site (opens in a new tab)