NYT Editors’ Choice 202012

1.
Lake of Urine
Lake of Urine 3.71 avg rating — 170 ratings
2.
The National Road
The National Road 3.73 avg rating — 303 ratings
3.
Eleanor
Eleanor 4.08 avg rating — 4,011 ratings
4.
The Best of Me
The Best of Me 4.20 avg rating — 25,122 ratings
5.
The Shadow Drawing: How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint
The Shadow Drawing: How Science Taught Leonardo How to Paint 3.95 avg rating — 84 ratings
5.
JFK: Coming Of Age In The American Century, 1917-1956
JFK: Coming Of Age In The American Century, 1917-1956 4.55 avg rating — 2,844 ratings
7.
Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975
Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975 4.32 avg rating — 293 ratings
8.
Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life 3.81 avg rating — 55,304 ratings
9.
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War 4.17 avg rating — 299 ratings
10.
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind 3.89 avg rating — 2,343 ratings
11.
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War
A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War 4.34 avg rating — 62 ratings
12.
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present 4.10 avg rating — 84 ratings
13.
War: How Conflict Shaped Us
War: How Conflict Shaped Us 3.58 avg rating — 3,781 ratings
14.
Sicily '43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe
Sicily '43: The First Assault on Fortress Europe 4.32 avg rating — 1,394 ratings
15.
The Kingdom
The Kingdom
by: Jo Nesbø
3.85 avg rating — 26,895 ratings
16.
Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas
Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas 4.26 avg rating — 833 ratings
17.
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground 4.41 avg rating — 10,256 ratings
18.
Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land
Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land 4.24 avg rating — 2,419 ratings
19.
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women
Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women 4.64 avg rating — 4,091 ratings
20.
Baburnama: Zahiruas??din Muhammad Babur Padshah Ghazi
Baburnama: Zahiruas??din Muhammad Babur Padshah Ghazi 3.96 avg rating — 772 ratings
21.
Divorcing
Divorcing 3.69 avg rating — 576 ratings
22.
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard 3.34 avg rating — 1,190 ratings
23.
Black Futures
Black Futures 4.56 avg rating — 1,183 ratings
24.
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art 4.03 avg rating — 3,481 ratings
25.
Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West
Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West 4.17 avg rating — 1,925 ratings
26.
Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art
Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art 4.23 avg rating — 31 ratings
27.
The Blind Light
The Blind Light 3.59 avg rating — 352 ratings
28.
A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology
A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology 3.96 avg rating — 998 ratings
29.
Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters
Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
30.
I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography
I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography 4.47 avg rating — 1,914 ratings
31.
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World 3.96 avg rating — 5,797 ratings
32.
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books 3.91 avg rating — 1,380 ratings
33.
First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country 4.07 avg rating — 3,746 ratings
34.
A Certain Hunger
A Certain Hunger 3.72 avg rating — 61,082 ratings
35.
The Sun Collective
The Sun Collective 3.27 avg rating — 922 ratings
36.
If the Boot Fits (Cowboys of California, #2)
If the Boot Fits (Cowboys of California, #2) 3.98 avg rating — 1,338 ratings
37.
The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention
The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention 3.50 avg rating — 1,377 ratings
38.
The Silence
The Silence 2.66 avg rating — 14,529 ratings
39.
The Lenin Plot: The Untold Story of America's Midnight War Against Russia
The Lenin Plot: The Untold Story of America's Midnight War Against Russia 3.20 avg rating — 70 ratings
40.
Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son
Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son 4.34 avg rating — 4,310 ratings
41.
The Churchill Myths
The Churchill Myths 3.74 avg rating — 23 ratings
42.
The Age of Skin
The Age of Skin 4.18 avg rating — 491 ratings
43.
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath 4.57 avg rating — 4,352 ratings
44.
Snowdrift (An Embla Nyström Investigation Book 3)
Snowdrift (An Embla Nyström Investigation Book 3) 3.69 avg rating — 2,523 ratings
45.
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State 4.16 avg rating — 2,248 ratings
46.
The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century
The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century 4.11 avg rating — 105 ratings
47.
That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems
That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems 3.76 avg rating — 140 ratings
48.
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret 3.62 avg rating — 1,215 ratings
49.
Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962
Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962 4.32 avg rating — 332 ratings
50.
The Freezer Door
The Freezer Door 4.21 avg rating — 486 ratings