Year-ender: Top 10 highest-rated books in 2020

10. The Rings of Saturn

Douban rating: 9.0

The Rings of Saturn is a 1995 novel by the German writer W. G. Sebald. Its first-person narrative arc is the account by a nameless narrator on a walking tour of Suffolk, UK. In addition to describing the places he sees and people he encounters, Sebald discusses various episodes of history and literature, including the introduction of silkworm cultivation to Europe and the writings of Thomas Browne.

The book was published in English in 1998 and called by The New York Times "a hybrid of a book – fiction, travel, biography, myth, and memoir".