Looking for something good to read? Look no further. Here are some of the best books of 2020, available from your Library.
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Featured
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
A tender, potent, and compulsively readable novel of a Nigerian-Indian family and the deeply held secret that tests their traditions and bonds.
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the run in an unforgiving landscape-trying not just to survive but to find a home.
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by Barbara Demick
Set in Aba, a town perched at 12,000 feet on the Tibetan plateau in the far western reaches of China that has been the engine of Tibetan resistance for decades, Eat the Buddha tells the story of a nation through the lives of ordinary people living in the throes of this conflict.
Place a hold on Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
After a series of blows, Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of this novel, returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. She has always sought direction in the literature she loves, but now she finds that the world demands more of her than words.
You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria
Rendered the subject of tabloid gossip by a messy public breakup, soap star Jasmine takes a part in a new bilingual comedy at the side of a telenovela costar who would revitalize his career.
Goldilocks by Laura Lam
A gripping science fiction thriller where five women task themselves with ensuring the survival of the human race by spearheading the first all-female mission to a planet in the Goldilocks Zone, where conditions are just right for human habitation. Perfect for readers of The Martian, The Power, and Station Eleven.
New York Times Notable Books of 2020
Fiction
- Beheld by Tarashea Nesbit
- Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
- Boy in the Field by Margot Livesey
- A Burning by Megha Majumdar
- A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
- Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump
- The Glass Kingdom by Lawrence Osborne
- Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
- His Only Wife by Peace A. Medie
- Homeland Elegies by Akhtar Ayad
- Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
- The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
- Monogamy by Sue Miller
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Nonfiction
- Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace by Carl Safina
- The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time by Ben Ehrenreich
- The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayetu Moore
- Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
- The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of the Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
- War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
- Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
Kirkus Best of 2020
Fiction
- The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
- The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand
- Writers and Lovers by Lily King
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
- The Book of V. by Anna Solomon
- Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
- The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
- One by One by Ruth Ware
- The Lives of Edie Pritchard by Larry Watson
- Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Romance
- Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn
- The Roommate by Rosie Danan
- Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert
- Daring and the Duke by Sarah MacLean
- The Devil of Downtown by Joanna Shupe
- Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner
Mystery and Suspense
- Dead Land by Sara Paretsky
- All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny
- Fair Warning by Michael Connelly
- Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar