Here are the books Goodreads users chose as the best books of 2020: Barack Obama's memoir, A Promised Land, Brit Bennett's novel, The Vanishing Half, Ibram X. Kendi's board book, Antiracist Baby, Isabel Wilkerson's history, Caste, Kiley Reid's thriller, Such a Fun Age, Matt Haig's novel, The Midnight Library, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's chilling tale, Mexican Gothic.