The Top 15 Books of 2020
As we all wave goodbye to 2020, here are the standout books, both fiction and nonfiction and in a variety of genres.
Susan Choi Wins National Book Award for Fiction
Choi, whose mother is Jewish and whose father is of Korean descent, won in the fiction category for “Trust Exercise.”
Excerpt: Ribalow Prize-Winner ‘The Last Watchman of Old Cairo’
My father told me stories about the long line of al-Raqb men who had, for nearly a thousand years, served as watchmen of the Ibn Ezra Synagogue.