• The Best of Memoir: the 2020 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist - Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child by Laura Cumming
  • The Best of Memoir: the 2020 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist - Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
  • The Best of Memoir: the 2020 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist - Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
  • The Best of Memoir: the 2020 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist - Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
  • The Best of Memoir: the 2020 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist - Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller

The Best of Memoir: the 2020 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist, recommended by Mark Athitakis

From a brave account by the Stanford rape case survivor Chanel Miller to New Yorker reporter Ronan Farrow’s gripping tale of investigating the Harvey Weinstein scandal, it’s been a golden year for autobiography. Veteran critic Mark Athitakis talks us through the memoirs that made this year’s National Book Critics Circle autobiography shortlist.

  • The Best Audiobooks for Kids of 2020 - ¡Vamos! Let's Go Eat by Raúl the Third, narrated by Gary Tiedemann
  • The Best Audiobooks for Kids of 2020 - Overground Railroad by Lesa Cline-Ransome, illustrated by James Ransome, narrated by Shayna Small and Dion Graham
  • The Best Audiobooks for Kids of 2020 - When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson, narrated by Faysal Ahmed (and full cast)
  • The Best Audiobooks for Kids of 2020 - Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson, narrated by Guy Lockard
  • The Best Audiobooks for Kids of 2020 - King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender, narrated by Ron Butler

The Best Audiobooks for Kids of 2020, recommended by Emily Connelly

Whether you’re on a car journey or sitting on the sofa together at home, listening to audiobooks with kids can be an incredible experience. Some will make you laugh, some will make you weep. Many will help us develop empathy for other human beings in the world around us. Here Emily Connelly, Assistant Editor at AudioFile, talks us through the magazine’s choices of the best audiobooks for kids of 2020.

  • The Best Business Books of 2020: the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award - No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Erin Meyer & Reed Hastings
  • The Best Business Books of 2020: the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award - Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Angus Deaton & Anne Case
  • The Best Business Books of 2020: the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award - A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond by Daniel Susskind
  • The Best Business Books of 2020: the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award - If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
  • The Best Business Books of 2020: the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award - No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier
  • The Best Business Books of 2020: the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award - Reimagining Capitalism: How Business Can Save the World by Rebecca Henderson

The Best Business Books of 2020: the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill

Whether you’re looking for ideas on how to run a successful business or books that look at the various challenges facing capitalist society, the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award is a great place to start. Andrew Hill, who with colleagues at the Financial Times sifted through hundreds of entries to compile the award’s longlist, talks us through the books that made the 2020 shortlist—as well as offering some predictions for the year ahead.

  • The Best Science Books for Kids: the 2020 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize - Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson & with Gregory Mone
  • The Best Science Books for Kids: the 2020 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize - Cats React to Science Facts by Izzi Howell
  • The Best Science Books for Kids: the 2020 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize - In the Key of Code by Aimee Lucido
  • The Best Science Books for Kids: the 2020 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize - How to Win a Nobel Prize by Barry Marshall, Bernard Caleo (illustrator) & with Lorna Hendry
  • The Best Science Books for Kids: the 2020 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize - Gut Garden: A journey into the wonderful world of your microbiome by Katie Brosnan
  • The Best Science Books for Kids: the 2020 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize - Everyday Journeys Of Ordinary Things by Libby Deutsch & Valpuri Kerttula (illustrator)

The Best Science Books for Kids: the 2020 Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize, recommended by Mike Kendall

To find the best science books for kids, the judges of the Royal Society Young People’s Book Prize look for books that are not only accurate but also entertaining. Mike Kendall, Professor of Geophysics at Oxford University and chair of this year’s judging panel, talks us through the six fabulous books that made the 2020 shortlist (the final winner will be chosen by the real experts: more than 13,000 kids).

  • Editors’ Picks: Notable Novels of Fall 2020 - Luster: A Novel by Raven Leilani
  • Editors’ Picks: Notable Novels of Fall 2020 - All Men Want to Know by Nina Bouraoui
  • Editors’ Picks: Notable Novels of Fall 2020 - Sisters: A Novel by Daisy Johnson
  • Editors’ Picks: Notable Novels of Fall 2020 - Jack: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
  • Editors’ Picks: Notable Novels of Fall 2020 - Earthlings: A Novel by Sayaka Murata

Editors’ Picks: Notable Novels of Fall 2020, recommended by Cal Flyn

After coronavirus-induced chaos threw publishing schedules out of whack earlier this year, fall 2020 is shaping up to be a bumper book season. But with hundreds of new titles flooding onto the shelves, it can be hard to identify those that are most deserving of your time. Here, Five Books deputy editor Cal Flyn highlights some of the most anticipated new novels of the coming weeks.