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The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 by Time Magazine

  • December 19, 2021
  • 80 Books
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Satiate your curiosity and escape while learning a little something along the way. These are Time's 100 must-read books of 2020 as collected by Andrew R. Chow, Eliana Dockterman, Mahita Gajanan, Annabel Gutterman, Suyin Haynes, Nate Hopper, Cady Lang and Lucas Wittmann.

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Elatsoe
The Rage of Dragons
Queen of the Conquered
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
Song of Blood & Stone
The Black Tides of Heaven
The Wall of Storms
Shadowshaper
The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty, #1)
Followers
The Book of Eels
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Why We Swim
Where the Wild Ladies Are
Weather
We Ride Upon Sticks
Want
Wandering in Strange Lands
The Vanishing Half
The Undocumented Americans
Tokyo Ueno Station
The Splendid and the Vile
Shuggie Bain
Sex and Vanity
Run Me to Earth
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
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Postcolonial Love Poem

Piranesi
Party of Two
Open Book
The Only Good Indians
One to Watch
Obit
The Night Watchman
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
The Mirror & the Light
Minor Feelings
Migrations
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Memorial
The Lying Life of Adults
Luster
Leave the World Behind
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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Jack

Interior Chinatown
If I Had Your Face
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Homeland Elegies
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
Hitler
His Only Wife
Hidden Valley Road
Having and Being Had
The Glass Hotel
Enter the Aardvark
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Earthlings
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Deacon King Kong
Culture Warlords: Dispatches from the Dark Web of White Supremacy
Crooked Hallelujah
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
Cleanness
The City We Became
A Children's Bible
Caste
Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
A Burning
Breasts and Eggs
Big Friendship
Begin Again
Agency
Afterlife
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song
The Address Book
Actress