The 35 Best Books of 2020 to Add to Your Reading List ASAP by Goodhousekeeping.com

Title: Long Bright River

"A suspense novel that also looks at the anatomy of a Philadelphia family rocked by the opioid crisis and the relationship between two sisters--one, suffering from addiction, who has suddenly gone missing amid a series of mysterious murders ...

Author(s): Liz Moore

ISBN 13: 9780525540670
Pages: 496

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Title: Topics of Conversation

The novel is composed almost exclusively of conversations between women--the stories they tell each other, and the stories they tell themselves, about shame and love, infidelity and self-sabotage--and careens through twenty years in the ...

Author(s): Miranda Popkey

ISBN 13: 9780525656289
Pages: 224

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Title: Darling Rose Gold

Unfortunately for Patty, Rose Gold is no longer her weak little darling... And she's waited such a long time for her mother to come home. "Sensationally good - two complex characters power the story like a nuclear reaction.

Author(s): Stephanie Wrobel

ISBN 13: 9780593100066
Pages: 320

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Title: Recollections of My Nonexistence

" --Maris Kreizman, Vulture An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation ...

Author(s): Rebecca Solnit

ISBN 13: 9780593083338
Pages: 256

Title: Writers & Lovers

An extraordinary new novel of art, love, and ambition from Lily King, the New York Times bestselling author of Euphoria

Author(s): Lily King

ISBN 13: 9780802148537
Pages: 320

Title: Its Not All Downhill from Here

After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she's going to do with the rest of her life--from Terry McMillan, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove ...

Author(s): Terry McMillan

ISBN 13: 9781984823748
Pages: 368

Title: The Mercies

Inspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1621 witch trials, The Mercies is a story of love, evil, and obsession, set at the edge of civilization.

Author(s): Kiran Millwood Hargrave

ISBN 13: 9780316529259
Pages: 352

Title: Weather

From the author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation--one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year--a shimmering tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a ...

Author(s): Jenny Offill

ISBN 13: 9780385351102
Pages: 224

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Title: Dreamland

Extravagant, intoxicating and thumping with suspense, bestselling Nancy Bilyeau's magnificent Dreamland is a story of corruption, class and dangerous obsession.

Author(s): Nancy Bilyeau

ISBN 13: 9781911445968
Pages: 386

Title: Such a Fun Age

"Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same.

Author(s): Kiley Reid

ISBN 13: 9780525541905
Pages: 320

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Title: Little Gods

"On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone.

Author(s): Meng Jin

ISBN 13: 9780062935953
Pages: 288

Title: My Dark Vanessa

Thought-provoking and impossible to put down, this is a masterful portrayal of troubled adolescence and its repercussions that raises vital questions about agency, consent, complicity, and victimhood.

Author(s): Kate Elizabeth Russell

ISBN 13: 9780062941503
Pages: 384

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Title: Uncanny Valley

Unsparing and incisive, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand.

Author(s): Anna Wiener

ISBN 13: 9780374278014
Pages: 304

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Title: Wandering in Strange Lands

"--Book Riot From the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing--a writer whom Roxane Gay has hailed as "a force to be reckoned with"--comes this powerful story of her journey to understand ...

Author(s): Morgan Jerkins

ISBN 13: 9780062873040
Pages: 304

Title: Death in Her Hands

Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no idea what to make of this.

Author(s): Ottessa Moshfegh

ISBN 13: 9781984879356
Pages: 272

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Title: The Book of Longings

"In her fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana.

Author(s): Sue Monk Kidd

ISBN 13: 9780525429760
Pages: 432

Title: The Sun Down Motel

Soon, Carly is mirroring her aunt's life, working as the night clerk at the motel, which hasn't changed since 1982. The guest book is still handwritten, the rooms still have actual keys, and a haunting presence still lingers.

Author(s): Simone St. James

ISBN 13: 9780440000174
Pages: 336

Title: Glorious Boy

In the desperate odyssey that follows, Claire, Shep, and Naila will all take unimaginable risks while drawing deeply from their knowledge of these unique islands to save their beloved "glorious boy."

Author(s): Aimee Liu

ISBN 13: 9781597098892
Pages: 344

Title: The Moment of Tenderness

This powerful collection of short stories traces an emotional arc inspired by Madeleine L'Engle's early life and career, from her lonely childhood in New York to her life as a mother in small-town Connecticut.

Author(s): Madeleine LEngle

ISBN 13: 9781538717820
Pages: 304

Title: Stray

Stray is an account of that remarkable emotional journey.

Author(s): Stephanie Danler

ISBN 13: 9781101875964
Pages: 240

Title: The Herd

As Hana struggles to figure out what her friend was hiding and Katie chases the story of her life, the sisters must face the secrets they've been keeping from each other--and confront just how dangerous it can be when women's perfect ...

Author(s): Andrea Bartz

ISBN 13: 9781984826367
Pages: 336

Title: The Regrets

Set in the hallucinatory borderland between life and death, The Regrets is a gloriously strange and breathtakingly sexy exploration of love, the cataclysmic power of fantasies, and the painful, exhilarating work of waking up to reality, ...

Author(s): Amy Bonnaffons

ISBN 13: 9780316516167
Pages: 304

Title: The Night Watchman

But Patrice needs every penny to get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera.00In The Night Watchman multi-award winning author Louise Erdrich weaves together a story of past and future generations, of ...

Author(s): Louise Erdrich

ISBN 13: 9780062671189
Pages: 416

Title: The Glass Hotel

"From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi ...

Author(s): Emily St. John Mandel

ISBN 13: 9780525521143
Pages: 320

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Title: All Adults Here

In All Adults Here, Emma Straub's unique alchemy of wisdom, humor, and insight come together in a deeply satisfying story about adult siblings, aging parents, high school boyfriends, middle school mean girls, the lifelong effects of birth ...

Author(s): Emma Straub

ISBN 13: 9781594634697
Pages: 368

Title: Too Much

This book will tell the story of how women, from then and now, have learned to draw power from their reservoirs of feeling, all that makes us "Too Much."

Author(s): Rachel Vorona Cote

ISBN 13: 9781538729700
Pages: 320

Title: Home Before Dark

In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father's bestselling horror memoir.

Author(s): Riley Sager

ISBN 13: 9781524745172
Pages: 384

Title: Godshot

For fans of Janet Fitch's White Oleander and Emma Cline's The Girls, a dazzling literary debut by Rona Jaffe Award winner Chelsea Bieker about one teenage girl's feminist awakening and her search for her missing mother

Author(s): Chelsea Bieker

ISBN 13: 9781948226486
Pages: 336

Title: And I Do Not Forgive You

At once humorous and unapologetically fierce, these stories shine an interrogating light on the adage that "history likes to lie about women"- as the subjects of "A Short and Speculative History of Lavoisier's Wife" and "You Won't Believe ...

Author(s): Amber Sparks

ISBN 13: 9781631496202
Pages: 224

Title: I Hold a Wolf by the Ears

"As enchanting as fairy tales, as mysterious as dreams, these exquisitely composed fictions are as urgent and original as any being written today.” —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction ...

Author(s): Laura van den Berg

ISBN 13: 9780374102098
Pages: 224

Title: The Vanishing Half

Looking well beyond issues of race, The Vanishing Half considers the lasting influence of the past as it shapes a person's decisions, desires, and expectations, and explores some of the multiple reasons and realms in which people sometimes ...

Author(s): Brit Bennett

ISBN 13: 9780525536291
Pages: 352

Title: Tiny Imperfections

"The Wedding Date meets Class Mom in this delicious novel of love, money, and misbehaving parents. "Delightful . . . Hilarious, cringe-worthy, and all too relevant. I ate this book up like a box of candy; you will too.

Author(s): Alli Frank Asha Youmans

ISBN 13: 9780593085028
Pages: 336

Title: Hollywood Park

Then they’d disappear again, for weeks, for months, for years, leaving us alone with our memories and dreams, our questions and confusion. ... So begins Hollywood Park, Mikel Jollett’s remarkable memoir.

Author(s): Mikel Jollett

ISBN 13: 9781250621566
Pages: 384