The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 by Time Magazine
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.
 A Burning
| 3.32 | 41 reads | |
 A Children's Bible
| 3.66 | 57 reads | |
 Actress
| 0 | 2 reads | |
 African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song | 0 | 1 read | |
 Afterlife
| 3.63 | 10 reads | |
 Agency
| 3.81 | 72 reads | |
 Begin Again
| 4.1 | 7 reads | |
 Big Friendship
| 5 | 2 reads | |
 Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
| 3.1 | 114 reads | |
 Breasts and Eggs
| 3.91 | 104 reads | |
 Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
| 3.9 | 14 reads | |
 Caste
| 4.44 | 195 reads | |
 Children of Virtue and Vengeance
| 3.53 | 106 reads | |
 Cleanness
| 3.92 | 20 reads | |
 Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
| 4 | 5 reads | |
 Crooked Hallelujah
| 3 | 3 reads | |
 Culture Warlords: Dispatches from the Dark Web of White Supremacy
| 4 | 20 reads | |
 Deacon King Kong
| 4.18 | 58 reads | |
 Earthlings
| 3.65 | 229 reads | |
 Elatsoe
| 3.98 | 119 reads | |
 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
| 4.36 | 104 reads | |
 Enter the Aardvark
| 3.25 | 7 reads | |
 Followers
| 3.21 | 7 reads | |
 Having and Being Had
| 3.42 | 17 reads | |
 Hidden Valley Road
| 4.04 | 16 reads | |
 His Only Wife
| 3.8 | 17 reads | |
 Hitler
| 4.5 | 2 reads | |
 Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
| 3.8 | 7 reads | |
 Homeland Elegies
| 4.19 | 27 reads | |
 Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
| 4.28 | 85 reads | |
 If I Had Your Face
| 3.83 | 70 reads | |
 I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Interior Chinatown
| 3.89 | 163 reads | |
 Jack
| 4 | 1 read | |
 Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
| 4.1 | 242 reads | |
 Leave the World Behind
| 3.27 | 216 reads | |
 Luster
| 3.6 | 137 reads | |
 Memorial
| 3.45 | 53 reads | |
 Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
| 4.45 | 13 reads | |
 Migrations
| 4.15 | 72 reads | |
 Minor Feelings
| 4.15 | 56 reads | |
 My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
| 3.6 | 5 reads | |
 Obit
| 4.29 | 10 reads | |
 One to Watch
| 3.73 | 86 reads | |
 Open Book
| 4.03 | 42 reads | |
 Party of Two
| 3.88 | 38 reads | |
 Piranesi
| 4.24 | 1,195 reads | |
 Postcolonial Love Poem Postcolonial Love Poem
| 0 | 1 read | |
 Queen of the Conquered
| 3.56 | 12 reads | |
 Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
| 4.13 | 8 reads | |
 Run Me to Earth
| 3.5 | 4 reads | |
 Sex and Vanity
| 2.91 | 32 reads | |
 Shadowshaper
| 3.8 | 16 reads | |
 Shuggie Bain
| 4.3 | 121 reads | |
 Song of Blood & Stone
| 3 | 5 reads | |
 The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
| 3.97 | 18 reads | |
 The Black Tides of Heaven
| 3.59 | 77 reads | |
 The Book of Eels
| 3.47 | 23 reads | |
 The City We Became
| 3.83 | 308 reads | |
 The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
| 4.7 | 8 reads | |
 The Glass Hotel
| 3.84 | 281 reads | |
 The Grace of Kings
| 3.69 | 167 reads | |
 The Lying Life of Adults
| 3.61 | 43 reads | |
 The Mirror & the Light
| 4.39 | 41 reads | |
 The Night Watchman
| 4.11 | 67 reads | |
 The Only Good Indians
| 3.78 | 235 reads | |
 The Rage of Dragons
| 4.3 | 180 reads | |
 The Splendid and the Vile
| 4.22 | 102 reads | |
 The Undocumented Americans | 4.16 | 29 reads | |
 The Vanishing Half
| 4.13 | 452 reads | |
 The Wall of Storms
| 4.38 | 51 reads | |
 Tokyo Ueno Station
| 3.45 | 54 reads | |
 Wandering in Strange Lands
| 3 | 1 read | |
 Want
| 3.5 | 5 reads | |
 Weather
| 3.49 | 59 reads | |
 We Ride Upon Sticks
| 3.91 | 45 reads | |
 Where the Wild Ladies Are
| 3.67 | 20 reads | |
 Why We Swim
| 3.86 | 15 reads | |
 Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
| 3.99 | 63 reads | |
 You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
| 3.86 | 16 reads |