Before it's too late, the best books I read in 2020
My favorites
Followers by Megan Angelo
Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha
How Do I Look? by Sennah Yee
Barn 8 by Deb Olin Unferth
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
the earthquake room by Davey Davis
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
We Wish You Luck by Caroline Zancan
Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Good Talk by Mira Jacob
Scott Pilgrim the Complete Series by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
Homie by Danez Smith
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe
Temporary by Hilary Leichter
The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s by Andy Greene
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
Honorable mentions
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
The Witches are Coming by Lindy West
Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes
In the Land of Men by Adrienne Miller
Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza
A Year Without a Name by Cyrus Grace Dunham
Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson
Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier
Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin
A Burning by Megha Mujumdar
Luster by Raven Leilani
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
Evolving Vegan by Mena Massoud
The Hole by Hiroko Oyamada
Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019 by Natasha Stagg
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke








