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Here are 20 of the year’s most eagerly awaited new titles, ranging from famous names to prestige-award winners to highly anticipated first-timers.

‘Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art’ by Rebecca Wragg Sykes Rebecca Wragg Sykes argues that we’ve spent too much time studying the way Neanderthals interacted with Homo Sapiens and too little studying the way Neanderthals interacted with each other. So she tells us how they lived, treating them not as one of evolution’s failures but as our close behavioral cousins. “The fate of the Neanderthals has monopolised enormous amounts of attention,” she writes, “yet it may be the least interesting thing about them.” ‘An Outsider’s Guide to...

MONEYWEB LIVESTREAM Happy reading. 00:01  Image: Bloomberg In the tough times of 2020, I’ve found myself drawn to nonfiction that made me look at the familiar in a different way. I’ve collected my favorite 15 books of the year here (technically, two were published in 2019, but I didn’t get around to reading them until this year). The first 14 are in random order, followed by my pick for the best nonfiction book of the year. Bonnie Tsui, “Why We Swim.” So many of us are drawn to the water, for recreation, for beautiful vistas, for food. And then there’s t...

The best nonfiction books of 2020 A professor of law at Yale University chooses 10 of his favorites, which range over topics such as Neanderthals, Simulmatics and John Maynard Keynes By Stephen Carter / Bloomberg In the tough times of 2020, I’ve found myself drawn to nonfiction that made me look at the familiar in a different way. I’ve collected my favorite 10 books of the year here. The first 9 are in random order, followed by my pick for the best nonfiction book of the year. Why We Swim Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, by James Nestor. So many of us are drawn to the water, for r...