Minor Feelings
Cathy Park Hong
Published 2020
209 pages
The most popular literary criticism books of 2020
Literary criticism is writing about books and how they work. Studies of great authors, guides to movements and periods, close readings and essays on reading itself are all here. Useful for students, and rewarding for any reader who wants to go deeper into a favorite work. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.
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Papyrus The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
Irene Vallejo
2020 · 2022 edition
464 pages
I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
Grant Snider
Published 2020
125 pages
I Hate Men
Pauline Harmange
2020 · 2022 edition
99 pages
The Soul of a Woman
Isabel Allende
2020 · 2021 edition
192 pages
Shit, Actually The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema
Lindy West
Published 2020
243 pages
Here for it Or, how to Save Your Soul in America
R. Eric Thomas
Published 2020
264 pages
Dark Archives A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin
Megan Rosenbloom
Published 2020
288 pages
A Ghost in the Throat
Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Published 2020
326 pages
Film for Her
Orion Carloto
Published 2020
183 pages
Recollections of My Non-Existence
Rebecca Solnit
Published 2020
244 pages
Begin Again James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Published 2020
272 pages
Cassandra Speaks When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
Elizabeth Lesser
2020 · 2022 edition
304 pages
Dear Reader The Comfort and Joy of Books
Cathy Rentzenbrink
Published 2020
240 pages
What We Carry A Memoir
Maya Shanbhag Lang
2020 · 2021 edition
304 pages
Red Comet
Heather Clark
Published 2020
1118 pages
Shakespeare in a Divided America What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
James Shapiro
2020 · 2021 edition
320 pages
The Price of Peace Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
Zachary D. Carter
2020 · 2021 edition
656 pages
First Principles
Thomas E. Ricks
Published 2020
416 pages
Men to Avoid in Art and Life
Nicole Tersigni
Published 2020
96 pages
Dante
Alessandro Barbero, Allan Cameron
2020 · 2022 edition
352 pages
Ex Libris 100 Books for Everyone's Bookshelf
Michiko Kakutani
Published 2020
304 pages
Breaking Bread with the Dead A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
Alan Jacobs
2020 · 2021 edition
192 pages
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde, Roxane Gay
Published 2020
352 pages