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
| 3.42 | 52 reads | |
 A Children's Bible
| 3.7 | 75 reads | |
 Actress
| 3.5 | 6 reads | |
 African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song | 0 | 1 read | |
 Afterlife
| 3.45 | 16 reads | |
 Agency
| 3.78 | 87 reads | |
 Begin Again
| 4.05 | 12 reads | |
 Big Friendship
| 4.5 | 4 reads | |
 Black Leopard, Red Wolf
| 3.11 | 137 reads | |
 Breasts and Eggs
| 3.88 | 129 reads | |
 Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
| 4 | 22 reads | |
 Caste
| 4.43 | 225 reads | |
 Children of Virtue and Vengeance
| 3.57 | 124 reads | |
 Cleanness
| 4 | 22 reads | |
 Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
| 4 | 8 reads | |
 Crooked Hallelujah
| 3.33 | 5 reads | |
 Culture Warlords: Dispatches from the Dark Web of White Supremacy
| 4.25 | 26 reads | |
 Deacon King Kong
| 4.19 | 66 reads | |
 Earthlings
| 3.6 | 270 reads | |
 Elatsoe
| 3.97 | 130 reads | |
 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
| 4.32 | 121 reads | |
 Enter the Aardvark
| 3.57 | 10 reads | |
 Followers
| 3.32 | 14 reads | |
 Having and Being Had
| 3.46 | 18 reads | |
 Hidden Valley Road
| 4.2 | 27 reads | |
 His Only Wife
| 3.81 | 18 reads | |
 Hitler
| 4.5 | 2 reads | |
 Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
| 3.57 | 9 reads | |
 Homeland Elegies
| 4.14 | 35 reads | |
 Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
| 4.28 | 105 reads | |
 If I Had Your Face
| 3.83 | 84 reads | |
 I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Interior Chinatown
| 3.86 | 193 reads | |
 Jack
| 4 | 3 reads | |
 Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
| 4.1 | 265 reads | |
 Leave the World Behind
| 3.27 | 243 reads | |
 Luster
| 3.6 | 157 reads | |
 Memorial
| 3.47 | 59 reads | |
 Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
| 4.38 | 25 reads | |
 Migrations
| 4.13 | 90 reads | |
 Minor Feelings
| 4.09 | 66 reads | |
 My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
| 3.71 | 11 reads | |
 Obit
| 4.2 | 14 reads | |
 One to Watch
| 3.73 | 95 reads | |
 Open Book
| 4 | 45 reads | |
 Party of Two
| 3.89 | 42 reads | |
 Piranesi
| 4.24 | 1,406 reads | |
 Postcolonial Love Poem
| 4.78 | 14 reads | |
 Queen of the Conquered
| 3.56 | 12 reads | |
 Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
| 4.27 | 12 reads | |
 Run Me to Earth
| 3.6 | 5 reads | |
 Sex and Vanity
| 3.02 | 40 reads | |
 Shadowshaper
| 3.56 | 26 reads | |
 Shuggie Bain
| 4.26 | 153 reads | |
 Song of Blood & Stone
| 3.2 | 8 reads | |
 The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
| 4.03 | 21 reads | |
 The Black Tides of Heaven
| 3.66 | 94 reads | |
 The Book of Eels
| 3.52 | 32 reads | |
 The City We Became
| 3.84 | 353 reads | |
 The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
| 4.7 | 8 reads | |
 The Glass Hotel
| 3.8 | 335 reads | |
 The Grace of Kings
| 3.71 | 188 reads | |
 The Lying Life of Adults
| 3.53 | 48 reads | |
 The Mirror & the Light
| 4.41 | 48 reads | |
 The Night Watchman
| 4.12 | 92 reads | |
 The Only Good Indians
| 3.78 | 290 reads | |
 The Rage of Dragons
| 4.29 | 210 reads | |
 The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
| 4.22 | 125 reads | |
 The Undocumented Americans | 4.28 | 35 reads | |
 The Vanishing Half
| 4.12 | 521 reads | |
 The Wall of Storms
| 4.31 | 60 reads | |
 Tokyo Ueno Station
| 3.36 | 62 reads | |
 Wandering in Strange Lands
| 2 | 3 reads | |
 Want
| 3.63 | 7 reads | |
 Weather
| 3.54 | 75 reads | |
 We Ride Upon Sticks
| 3.93 | 57 reads | |
 Where the Wild Ladies Are
| 3.69 | 24 reads | |
 Why We Swim
| 3.83 | 31 reads | |
 Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
| 3.94 | 71 reads | |
 You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
| 3.68 | 24 reads |