RUSA 2020 Selections

Reading List
The annual best-of reading list is selected by the Reading List Council. Shortlisted honor titles were also announced. Titles of genre interest include:

Science Fiction

• WINNER: A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)

Short List

• To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Becky Chambers (Harper Voyager)
• Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir (Tor.com Publishing)
• The Future of Another Timeline, Annalee Newitz (Tor)
• Finder, Suzanne Palmer (DAW)

Fantasy

• WINNER: Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey)

Short List

• Ninth House, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron)
• The Ruin of Kings, Jenn Lyons (Tor)
• Middlegame, Seanan McGuire (Tor.com Publishing)
• Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh (Tor.com Publishing)

Horror

• WINNER: The Twisted Ones, T. Kingfisher (Saga)

Short List

• The Toll, Cherie Priest (Tor)
• The Homecoming, Andrew Pyper (Simon & Schuster Canada)
• The Devil Aspect, Craig Russell (Doubleday)
• Violet, Scott Thomas (Inkshares)

Adrenaline

• WINNER: The Passengers, John Marrs (Berkley)

Short List

• Cold Storage, David Koepp (Ecco)

Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey (Tor) was shortlisted in the Mystery category.

Winners were selected by the Reading List Council consisting of Craig Clark, Gloria Drake, Halle Eisenman, Matthew Galloway (chair), Andrea Gough, Marlene Harris, Sarah Jaffa, Jackie Kropp, Teresa May, Jo Schofield, Karin Suni, and Estella Terrazas. For a full list of winners and honor titles, see the RUSA website.

Listen List
The Listen List Council of the Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES) selected 13 titles for outstanding audiobook narration. Selections of genre interest include:

• Full Throttle, Joe Hill, read by Zachary Quinto, Wil Wheaton, Kate Mulgrew, Neil Gaiman, Ashleigh Cummings, Joe Hill, Laysla De Oliveira, Nate Corddry, Connor Jessup, Stephen Lang & George Guidall (HarperAudio)
• Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss, read by Christine Hewitt (Macmillan)
• We Cast a Shadow, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, read by Dion Graham (Books on Tape)

The Listen List was selected by a jury consisting of Ron Block, Katie Corrigan, Nanette Donohue, Sarah Hashimoto (chair), Sarah Hill, Danise Hoover, Lauren Kage, Christa Van Herreweghe. For the complete list of selected titles, see the RUSA website.

Notable Books List

The Notable Books List is an annual best-of list of books published in the US. Selections of genre interest include:

• The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
• Lanny, Max Porter (Graywolf)
• The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)

Winners were selected by the Notable Books Council consisting of Lillian Dabney, Lizzie Gall (chair), William Patrick Kelly, Edward Kownslar, Lynn Lobash, Eve A. Nyren, Jeanessa Smith, Stephen Sposato, Sarah Barbara Watstein, Hana Zittel, Mary Callaghan Zunt. For a complete list of winners, see the RUSA website.

The RUSA is a division of the American Library Association (ALA).