NYT Editors’ Choice 202007

1.
The Faking of the President: Nineteen Stories of White House Noir
The Faking of the President: Nineteen Stories of White House Noir 3.63 avg rating β€” 57 ratings
2.
Hamnet
Hamnet 4.19 avg rating β€” 310,912 ratings
3.
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West
Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took On the West 4.17 avg rating β€” 9,023 ratings
4.
Imperfect Women
Imperfect Women 3.36 avg rating β€” 4,233 ratings
5.
The Shadows
The Shadows 3.73 avg rating β€” 63,177 ratings
6.
The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives
The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives 3.92 avg rating β€” 152 ratings
7.
You Again
You Again 3.18 avg rating β€” 1,552 ratings
8.
Death in Her Hands
Death in Her Hands 3.24 avg rating β€” 51,831 ratings
9.
Shadowplay
Shadowplay 3.85 avg rating β€” 3,741 ratings
10.
DMZ Colony
DMZ Colony 4.31 avg rating β€” 1,196 ratings
11.
What's Left of Me Is Yours
What's Left of Me Is Yours 3.74 avg rating β€” 3,124 ratings
12.
A Short Move
A Short Move 3.80 avg rating β€” 133 ratings
13.
Superman Smashes the Klan
Superman Smashes the Klan 4.50 avg rating β€” 6,724 ratings
14.
Between Everything and Nothing: The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for Asylum
Between Everything and Nothing: The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for Asylum
by: Joe Meno
4.27 avg rating β€” 213 ratings
15.
Tokyo Ueno Station
Tokyo Ueno Station 3.45 avg rating β€” 28,923 ratings
16.
The Lehman Trilogy: A Novel
The Lehman Trilogy: A Novel 4.24 avg rating β€” 1,813 ratings
17.
Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality
Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality 4.09 avg rating β€” 537 ratings
18.
The Demagogue's Playbook: The Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump
The Demagogue's Playbook: The Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump 3.84 avg rating β€” 138 ratings
19.
Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World
Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World 4.16 avg rating β€” 645 ratings
20.
14 Miles: Building the Border Wall
14 Miles: Building the Border Wall 4.15 avg rating β€” 81 ratings
21.
Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference
Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference 4.17 avg rating β€” 413 ratings
22.
Make Russia Great Again
Make Russia Great Again 3.68 avg rating β€” 2,197 ratings
23.
Enter the Aardvark
Enter the Aardvark 3.62 avg rating β€” 3,146 ratings
24.
Crooked Hallelujah
Crooked Hallelujah 3.48 avg rating β€” 3,387 ratings
25.
Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party
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
26.
Utopia Avenue
Utopia Avenue really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 26,245 ratings
27.
Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw
Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw 3.64 avg rating β€” 541 ratings
28.
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close 3.75 avg rating β€” 24,718 ratings
29.
Empty
Empty 3.78 avg rating β€” 5,447 ratings
30.
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win 4.07 avg rating β€” 15,274 ratings
31.
The Beauty in Breaking
The Beauty in Breaking 3.82 avg rating β€” 31,933 ratings
32.
Nine Shiny Objects
Nine Shiny Objects 3.16 avg rating β€” 459 ratings
33.
A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1)
A Peculiar Peril (The Misadventures of Jonathan Lambshead, #1) 3.22 avg rating β€” 2,235 ratings
34.
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man 3.82 avg rating β€” 95,057 ratings
35.
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town 4.15 avg rating β€” 6,618 ratings
36.
Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time
Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time 3.51 avg rating β€” 827 ratings
37.
The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution
The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution 4.08 avg rating β€” 350 ratings
38.
Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir 4.24 avg rating β€” 9,232 ratings
39.
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 4,538 ratings
40.
Paying the Land
Paying the Land
by: Joe Sacco
4.34 avg rating β€” 3,101 ratings
41.
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt 4.04 avg rating β€” 10,162 ratings
42.
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings 3.73 avg rating β€” 2,020 ratings
43.
The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life
The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life 4.20 avg rating β€” 32,845 ratings
44.
Intimations
Intimations 3.98 avg rating β€” 28,338 ratings
45.
True Story
True Story 3.51 avg rating β€” 7,581 ratings
46.
The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch 3.69 avg rating β€” 1,705 ratings
47.
The Golden Cage
The Golden Cage 3.73 avg rating β€” 37,221 ratings
48.
Blacktop Wasteland
Blacktop Wasteland 4.07 avg rating β€” 52,001 ratings
49.
The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained
The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained 3.66 avg rating β€” 1,803 ratings
50.
Love and Theft
Love and Theft 3.53 avg rating β€” 986 ratings
51.
Afterland
Afterland 3.25 avg rating β€” 5,132 ratings