Best of 2020 Books
Editor’s Choice
S Prasannarajan
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World | PAX: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age | A Dictator Calls | Victory City | The Year of the Locust
The Quiet Gems
The majority of this year’s list of bests comprises quieter books, those which arrived with less fanfare and left a lasting impression
My Choice
Pratap Bhanu Mehta | William Dalrymple | Amit Chaudhuri | David Davidar | Ira Mukhoti | Aatish Taseer | Arundhati Subramaniam | KR Meera | TCA Raghavan | Tridip Suhrud | Tishani Doshi | Mani Shankar Aiyar | Mini Kapoor
Best of 2020 Books: My Choice
Pratap Bhanu Mehta | Sunil Khilnani | William Dalrymple | Jeet Thayil | Shashi Tharoor | TCA Raghavan | David Davidar | Aatish Taseer | Ira Mukhoty | Mahesh Rao | Dipankar Gupta | Srinath Raghavan | Tabish Khair | Tishani Doshi | Anita Nair
Best of 2020 Books: Crime Fiction: The Body In the Attic
I Saw Him Die | A Will to Kill | Shed No Tears | V2 | Midnight Atlanta
Best of 2020 Books: Politics: Rethinking Histories
Sixteen Stormy Days | France before 1789 | The Revolution that Failed | Trade Wars Are Class Wars | The World Imagined
Best of 2020 Books: Non-Fiction: Our Maladies
The Hidden Hand | The Story of China | The Ratline |Agent Sonya | The Habsburgs | The Nine Lives of Pakistan
Celebrating Differences
Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic | Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line | Red Pill | Vesper Flights
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