100 Notable Books of 2020
5. 
The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
by:
David Paul Kuhn
4.08 avg rating β 350 ratings 
10. 
Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
by:
Carl Safina
4.19 avg rating β 1,550 ratings 
18. 
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
by:
Robert Kolker
4.15 avg rating β 139,634 ratings 
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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl 4.19 avg rating β 6,059 ratings
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Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country 3.76 avg rating β 5,943 ratings
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by:
Erik Larson
4.30 avg rating β 132,003 ratings 41. 
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
by:
Maria Konnikova
4.07 avg rating β 15,275 ratings 42. 
Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
by:
Kim Ghattas
4.40 avg rating β 5,431 ratings 
44. 
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
by:
Patrik Svensson
3.92 avg rating β 21,235 ratings 
46. 
Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party 3.83 avg rating β 629 ratings
49. 
The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice
by:
David Hill
3.78 avg rating β 1,914 ratings 
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
by:
Joseph Henrich
4.12 avg rating β 3,969 ratings 
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A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S. Haldane really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 232 ratings
61. 
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
by:
Barbara Demick
4.15 avg rating β 6,618 ratings 
64. 
Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World
by:
Robert M. Gates
4.16 avg rating β 645 ratings 65. 
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World 4.09 avg rating β 2,779 ratings
69. 
The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World
by:
Barry Gewen
4.03 avg rating β 469 ratings 
71. 
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
by:
Adrian Tomine
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4,538 ratings 72. 
The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III
by:
Peter Baker
4.44 avg rating β 2,801 ratings 
80. 
Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America 4.23 avg rating β 2,133 ratings
81. 
A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America
by:
Elliott Currie
4.03 avg rating β 305 ratings 82. 
A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith
by:
Timothy Egan
4.11 avg rating β 4,136 ratings 83. 
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold WarβA Tragedy in Three Acts
by:
Scott Anderson
4.13 avg rating β 2,856 ratings 
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Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future
by:
James Shapiro
4.09 avg rating β 3,161 ratings 
92. 
Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
by:
Chris Hamby
4.31 avg rating β 753 ratings 93. 
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia 3.12 avg rating β 6,341 ratings
94. 
This Is All I Got: A New Mother's Search for Home
by:
Lauren Sandler
4.36 avg rating β 1,260 ratings 
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Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
by:
Brian Greene
4.04 avg rating β 5,901 ratings 