2.
3. The Autumn of the Ace (Harvill Secker, 2020) / Louis de Bernieres
4. God 99 (trans. from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright) (Comma Press, 2020) / Hassan Blasim
5. The Man Who Collected Women (Monsoon, 2020) / Nigel Barley
6.
The Sun Collective (Pantheon, 2020) /
Charles Baxter7. When the Lights Go Out (Hutchinson, 2020) / Carys Bray
8. The Swallowed Man (Gallic Books, 2020) / Edward Carey
9. Mr Wilder and Me (Viking, 2020) / Jonathan Coe
10. The Betrayals (The Borough Press, 2020) / Bridget Collins
11. Paris by Starlight (Del Rey, 2020) / Robert Dinsdale
12. At Night All Blood Is Black (trans. from the French by Anna Moschovakis) (Pushkin Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) / David Diop
13.
The Searcher (Viking, 2020) /
Tana French
14.
Moonflower Murders (Harper/HarperCollins, 2020) /
Anthony Horowitz15. An Island (Holland House Books, 2020) / Karen Jennings
16. Miss Benson’s Beetle (The Dial Press, 2020) / Rachel Joyce
17. Xstabeth (White Rabbit, 2020) / David Keenan
18. The Arrest (Ecco/Atlantic Books, 2020) / Jonathan Lethem
19. Little Cruelties (Gallery/Scout Press, 2020) / Liz Nugent
20. One by One (Harvill Secker, 2020) / Ruth Ware
21. Strange Beasts of China (trans. from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang) (Tilted Axis Press, 2020) / Yan Ge
FIRST NOVELS
1. Nights When Nothing Happened (Riverhead Books, 2020) / Simon Han
2. Murder in Old Bombay (Minotaur, 2020) / Nev March
3.
The Last Good Man (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) /
Thomas McMullan
STORIES1.
Some People Let You Down (University of North Texas Press, 2020) /
Mike Alberti2. The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories (Riverhead Books, 2020) / Danielle Evans
3.
Collected Stories (ed.
Brigitta Olubas) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) /
Shirley Hazzard4.
The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard (Virago, 2020) /
Shirley Hazzard5.
To Be a Man (Bloomsbury Publishing/Harper, 2020) /
Nicole Krauss
6.
Christmas Is Murder (Sphere, 2020) /
Val McDermid
POETRY
1.
Dearly (Ecco/Chatto & Windus, 2020) /
Margaret Atwood2.
Poor (Penguin, 2020) /
Caleb Femi3. Life Without Air (Granta, 2020) / Daisy Lafarge
4.
Music for the Dead and Resurrected (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2020) /
Valzhyna Mort
5.
The Late Sun (Faber & Faber, 2020) /
Christopher Reid6.
My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems (trans. from the Chinese by
Tracy K. Smith &
Changtai Bi) (Graywolf Press, 2020) /
Yi Lei
NONFICTION1. The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India (Harvard University Press, 2020) / Manan Ahmed Asif
2. The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times (W.H. Allen, 2020) / Lionel Barber
3. Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art (Jonathan Cape, 2020) / Julian Barnes
4. The Walker: On Losing and Finding Yourself in the Modern City (Verso, 2020) / Matthew Beaumont
5. Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present (W.W. Norton, 2020) / Ruth Ben-Ghiat
6. Walking With Ghosts: A Memoir (Picador, 2020) / Gabriel Byrne
7. The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest (Viking, 2020) / Ed Caesar
8. Oh Happy Day: Those Times and These Times (Jonathan Cape, 2020) / Carmen Callil
9. Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections (trans. from the German by Kurt Beals) (Granta Publications, 2020) / Jenny Erpenbeck
10. Stories I Forgot to Tell You (New York Review Books, 2020) / Dorothy Gallagher
11. The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene (W.W. Norton, 2020) / Richard Greene
12. The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives (Allen Lane, 2020) / Christopher Harding
13. The Invention of China (Yale University Press, 2020) / Bill Hayton
14. The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2020) / Hilary Holladay
15.
A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order (Yale University Press, 2020) /
G. John Ikenberry 16. Kings of Shanghai: Two Rival Dynasties and the Creation of Modern China (Little, Brown, 2020) / Jonathan Kaufman
17. The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (Pantheon, 2020) / Phillip Lopate (ed.)
18. Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020) / Mahmood Mamdani
19. Kant’s Little Russian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays (Fleet, 2020) / Claire Messud
20. The Upswing: How We Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again (Swift Press, 2020) / Robert Putnam
21. The Changing Outer Hebrides: Galson and the Meaning of Place (Acari, 2020) / Frank Rennie
22. Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong (Oxford University Press USA, 2020) / Ricky Ricardi
23.
First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country (Harper, 2020) /
Thomas E. Ricks
24.
The Free Speech Wars: How Did We Get Here and Why Does It Matter? (Manchester University Press, 2020 /
Charlotte Lydia Riley (ed.)
25. The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 (Allen Lane, 2020) / Ritchie Robinson
26. There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness (Allen Lane, 2020) / Carlo Rovelli
27. Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain (Robinson, 2020) / Padraic X. Scanlan
28. Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo (Reaktion Books, 2020) / Timon Screech
29. Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck (W.W. Norton, 2020) / William Souder
30. The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar (Oxford University Press, 2020) / Peter Stothard
31.
The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery (The Bodley Head, 2020) /
Michael Taylor32.
The Battle of Belonging: On Nationalism, Patriotism, and What It Means to be Indian (Aleph Book Company, 2020) /
Shashi Tharoor33. Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain (Atlantic Books, 2020) / Pen Vogler
34.
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State (W.W. Norton, 2020) /
Declan Walsh35. The Lost Homestead: My Family, Partition and the Punjab (Hodder & Stoughton, 2020) / Marina Wheeler
36. Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention (Doubleday, 2020) / Ben Wilson
37. The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream (St Martin’s Press, 2020) / Michael Wood