Top 20 Books to Read in 2020 by Enews

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: Hollywoods Eve

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 “I practically snorted this book, stayed up all night with it.

Author(s): Lili Anolik

ISBN 13: 9781501125799
Pages: 288

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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: 99 Nights in Logar

"Twelve-year-old Marwand's memories from his previous visit to Afghanistan six years ago center on his contentious relationship with Budabash, the terrifying but beloved dog who guards his extended family's compound in Logar.

Author(s): Jamil Jan Kochai

ISBN 13: 9780525559191
Pages: 288

Title: Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

This collection of stories, found in archives after her death, reveal African American folk culture in Harlem in the 1920s. This book includes eight of Hurston's "lost" Harlem gems.

Author(s): Zora Neale Hurston

ISBN 13: 9780062915795
Pages: 192

Title: The Water Cure

"Originally published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton ... in 2018"--Copyright page.

Author(s): Sophie Mackintosh

ISBN 13: 9780385543873
Pages: 288

Title: The Dreamers

"One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep--and doesn't wake up.

Author(s): Karen Thompson Walker

ISBN 13: 9780812994162
Pages: 320

Title: Followers

At turns wry and tender, bleak and hopeful, this darkly funny story reminds us that even if we obsess over famous people we'll never meet, what we really crave is genuine human connection.

Author(s): Megan Angelo

ISBN 13: 9781525836268
Pages: 384

Title: Inheritance

"The ... author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the ... discovery she made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hidden the story ...

Author(s): Dani Shapiro

ISBN 13: 9781524732714
Pages: 272

Title: You Know You Want This

“What’s special about ‘Cat Person,’ and the rest of the stories in You Know You Want This, is the author’s expert control of language, character, story—her ability to write stories that feel told, and yet so unpretentious and ...

Author(s): Kristen Roupenian

ISBN 13: 9781982101633
Pages: 240

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: The Mirror & the Light

The story begins in May 1536: Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Cromwell breakfasts with the victors.

Author(s): Hilary Mantel

ISBN 13: 9780805096606
Pages: 784

Title: Maid

She wrote the true stories that weren't being told: the stories of overworked and underpaid Americans. Of living on food stamps and WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) coupons to eat.

Author(s): Stephanie Land

ISBN 13: 9780316505116
Pages: 288

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: 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: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (a Hunger Games Novel)

Untitled Panem Novel will revisit the world of Panem sixty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games.

Author(s): Suzanne Collins

ISBN 13: 9781338635171
Pages: 528

Title: The Beauty of Your Face

A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face with a school shooter in this searing debut.

Author(s): Sahar Mustafah

ISBN 13: 9781324003380
Pages: 272

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Title: The Better Liar

"--Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Never Have I Ever When a woman conceals her sister's death to claim their joint inheritance, her deception exposes a web of dangerous secrets in this addictive new thriller for fans ...

Author(s): Tanen Jones

ISBN 13: 9781984821225
Pages: 320