EW’s critics highlight their favorite reads of the year.
Much has been said about the fact that 2020 was the year of the book.
While the pandemic has left no corner of pop culture untouched, the publishing industry was comparatively less scathed.
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Leah Greenblatt
9.
Red Comet by Heather Clark
A 1,000-page-plus biography of Sylvia Plath, you say?
David Canfield
8.
Knopf
D.C.
6.
Her incisive exploration of faith in immigrant communities made for some of the year’s most engrossing storytelling.
D.C.
1.
Knopf
Random House
Penguin
Riverhead
Ecco
Little, Brown and Company
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel CR: Knopf Doubleday.Knopf Doubleday
