Here is the list of most popular books of 2020.
1) Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
From the author of Homegoing, the breakout debut novel about the two very different legacies of an Asante woman living in 18th-century Ghana, comes a contemporary tale of a Ghanaian family in Alabama struggling to make sense of loss.
As written its Brilliant and Stunning. When a fellow former student comes forward with sexual misconduct allegations against Vanessa’s high school English teacher, Jacob, Vanessa must grapple with a discomfiting question whether her own teenage affair with Jacob was as consensual as she’s been telling herself for 17 years. In the age of "#MeToo", Russell’s blistering, deeply uncomfortable, and utterly essential debut achieves required-reading status.
3) The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
When the Vignes twin sisters were growing up, they were inseparable. But now, as adults, they’ve taken two paths, one living with her Black daughter in the same community she’s known her whole life; the other passing as white and living among loved ones who have no idea where she came from. Propulsive and compassionate, Bennett’s follow up to The Mothers is not to be missed.
Have you read Heroines, this is the same author who wrote heroines, if you read that book then you will know how beautiful book that was. The quietly stirring account of an unnamed writer’s self-imposed isolation. Desperate to complete her overdue novel, the narrator haunts the street shops of her neighborhood in search of inspiration but as winter approaches, her progress is interrupted by a series of unsettling disturbances.
In Just Like You, not quite divorced 42 year old Lucy is thrown for a loop when she realizes that 22-year-old Joseph the man she’s hired to babysit her kids just may be her perfect match.
Its story of a serial-killer centered not on the murderer’s crimes but on the lives he’s ruined. The answer might look something like These Women, Ivy Pochoda’s novel about five very different women in the rapidly gentrifying L.A. neighborhood of West Adams. When two murders are reported in their neighborhood, the women find their lives inextricably connected by the crimes and obsessions of one man.
I promise that you will love this novel for sure. A lush, modern gothic tale, Plain Bad Heroines is a story of horror and sapphic love set across 100 years at a cursed, all girls boarding school.
8) What Are You Going Through
A woman describes a series of encounters she has with various people in the ordinary course of her life: an ex she runs into by chance at a public forum, an Airbnb owner unsure how to interact with her guests, a stranger who seeks help comforting his elderly mother, a friend of her youth now hospitalized with terminal cancer. In each of these people the woman finds a common need: the urge to talk about themselves and to have an audience to their experiences. The narrator orchestrates this chorus of voices for the most part as a passive listener, until one of them makes an extraordinary request, drawing her into an intense and transformative experience of her own.
This Book will bring you wisdom, humor, and insight to a novel about human connection and the changing nature of relationships in our times.
One of the Best book of 2020 from Times News. From the outside, the Chengs seem like so called model immigrants. Once Patty landed a tech job near Dallas, she and Liang grew secure enough to have a second child, and to send for their first from his grandparents back in China. Isn't this what they sacrificed so much for? But then little Annabel begins to sleepwalk at night, putting into motion a string of misunderstandings that not only threaten to set their community against them but force to the surface the secrets that have made them fear one another. You should read this book.
You may have heard the story by now: One day, while delivering a speech about how she and her husband rebuilt their marriage in the wake of an infidelity, Glennon Doyle locked eyes across the ballroom with Abby Wambach and fell in love. In Doyle’s smash-hit 2020 memoir, she recounts that experience, what came after, and how she learned along the way to commit to her own happiness.
