—AG, Pochoda's take on L.A. noir is a refreshing and innovative outlier. Cautionary and warm, witty and unsettling, Jen’s fifth novel paints a portrait of an evolution of American society that feels ever more plausible. In the half-submerged AutoAmerica of the near future, a young girl’s preternatural baseball prowess enables her ascent from the underclass of a sharply-divided dystopian society to the upper echelons of its elite—even as her mother mounts a challenge to the very foundations of the world they know. C Pam Zhang’s electrifying debut is a sweeping work of historical fiction—the sort of masterpiece that immediately establishes an author as a force to be reckoned with. From the quiet anxiety of Jenny Offill and Otessa Moshfegh to laugh-out-loud collections from Samantha Irby and ELLE's own R. Eric Thomas, 2020's sole upside is … Promise. Where were you when Petersen’s viral article about millennial burnout first hit BuzzFeed in January of 2019? Refresh and try again. 11 Spanish-language authors you need on your bookshelf, Presenting: The Best New Books to Preorder RN, All the Movies Based on Books Coming Out in 2020, There Are So Many TV Shows Based on Books in 2020. Red Dress in Black and White spans a single day in Istanbul in which Catherine, an American with a young son, decides to flee her powerful Turkish husband to return to the States with the American photographer she’s fallen in love with. Says Ann Patchett, “The novel should be required reading for the country both as a cautionary tale and because it is a stone-cold masterpiece.” —BK, In this debut collection, Peter Kispert takes a clever premise—stories about liars—and spins an extraordinary tapestry that questions why we lie and all the ripples (good, bad, and chaotic) that come from them. In The Resisters, author Gish Jen combines that premise with the anxiety around climate change. As both raise daughters in different worlds, Bennett beautifully explores how each sister's decisions impact herself and her daughter—and how all their lives remain inextricably connected. In October, we’ll see the publication of Cardiff, by the Sea, a collection of four unpublished novellas that Oates’s own publisher described as “deeply disturbing.” As if that weren’t enough, the luminary’s other novel, Night. —AG, This year, a bevy of novels use technology-gone-amuck as the premise for dystopia. In her first novel translated into English, acclaimed South Korean writer Yun Ko-Eun follows her protagonist—an employee at a travel agency that specializes in disaster tourism—on a visit to Mui, a remote island that’s in danger of falling off her company’s roster of destinations. In her new novel Sea Wife, Amity Gaige depicts the journey from a dual point of view, interspersing the wife’s recollections of how it all went wrong with diary entries from the husband, both of which cut to the heart of mundane marital strife and the legacy of trauma. The latest book from Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City, is an engrossing account of Winston Churchill’s first year as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Here, alphabetically by author, the best books of 2020 so far. Drawing on her Chippewa heritage, the National Book Award winner constructs a portrait of a community fighting for survival in The Night Watchman. A modern retelling of Noah’s Ark, Millet’s tale is of a group of idle, wealthy friends and their feral children. Though they might be fictional, Sittenfeld's piercing insights into the psychology of a woman whose feelings we know so little make for a fascinating reading experience. —BK, In this eye-opening anthology about climate change, an impressive cast of contributors including Edwidge Danticat, Mohammed Hanif, and Margaret Atwood reflect on how the grim horror of our current ecological reality is being felt around the world. The New York Times describes it as a “haunting, arresting” read. Happy hygge-ing, bbs. The 20 Best Young Adult Books of 2020. —R. “Li has crafted an epic story of a life full of regret, but also of hope and perseverance and the importance of passing down our legacies,” according to Vulture. Dive into the lives of four Brooklyn couples over the course of a year. She begins the novel working as a servant, and gradually transforms herself into a proud warrior. The 31 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020. He now runs the Anthill, a Medellín youth center that draws Lina in even as she senses darkness. Buy Now: Hidden Valley Road on Bookshop | Amazon. Except instead of the Upper East Side, we head over the bridge to Cobble Hill. If you think you’ve conquered the modern canon of anti-racist literature just because you read Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility, think again. Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson, Allende’s latest novel is, according to the Telegraph, “a gripping tale of love in exile”. Zhang’s haunting western adventure story follows Lucy and Sam, the orphaned children of Chinese immigrants, as they flee their desolate mining town to seek out a new life in the waning days of the American gold rush. Poet Cathy Park Hong establishes herself as an energetic and necessary voice in the dialogue surrounding racism in the U.S. in her nonfiction debut. Full of Chinese symbolism, this debut novel is an adventure story that explores the themes of memory, family and belonging. Neither did I, until I heard about Dearly, Atwood's first book of poetry in over a decade. But it also points the way towards hope and a new understanding of racial identity. 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. Books and fall were made for each other. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. “Very funny – one of Tyler’s best yet.”. All Rights Reserved. Living in an overpopulated, polluted metropolis, Bea realises she and her daughter cannot stay in the city, and so join a group of volunteers to take part in an extreme experiment. We have compiled a list of the 8 best fiction books you can read in 2020, which will blow your mind. —RET, Exactly a decade after releasing The Warmth of Other Suns, her sweeping look at how the Great Migration transformed America, Isabel Wilkerson revolutionizes the way we view race with Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. It's moody in the best way possible. It achieves its aim by merging acts of imagination and extrapolation with historical fact.”  It is a “profoundly human” novel, says BBC Culture. “Brandon Taylor emerges as a powerhouse with this artful debut,” says Newsweek. The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel. Big-hearted and moving, Bryan Washington’s debut novel has already accomplished the impossible: It’s prompted legendary melancholy writer Ocean Vuong to say, “This book made me happy.”. The family battles alcoholism, sexuality taboo, and the constraints of domesticity, all packaged in the atmospheric lyricism of an epic. Whether despite or because of Taylor’s closeness to his subject matter, the result is a novel of quiet, startling power. “If ever there was a perfect time for a new Anne Tyler novel, it’s now,” says the Wall Street Journal. But then, fine, once September rolls around. Fifteen years after pop supergroup Gloss splits up, former member Cassidy Holmes dies by suicide—leaving her three former bandmates to pick up the pieces and wonder what they could have done differently. If you’re looking to make a dent in your GoodReads goal for the year, keep an eye on this list of the top new books to watch out for in 2020. —LP, Ottessa Moshfegh follows her beloved 2018 title, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, with a fresh take on the archetypal murder mystery. “The novel is also a discourse on power (whether political, social or sexual), but executed with a beautifully light touch.”, Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata’s previous novel, was a bestseller and a critical hit. Literally the only good thing about the change of seasons is discovering all the clothes and shoes I forgot I had. 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 tender, intimate and distinctive writing, Taylor explores race, sexuality and desire with a cast of unforgettable characters.”. Peace Adzo Medie's debut novel is both a fierce and funny study of modern womanhood within Ghanian culture. —BK, You know R. Eric Thomas from his must-read ELLE.com column "Eric Reads the News," but his first book—a read-in-one sitting memoir about battling loneliness and finding your voice—will make you laugh out loud and break your heart in equal measure before leaving you with that oft-elusive desire: hope. The husband never returns. Then they become friends. Our favorite books of 2020 report on issues ranging from teenage sexuality to Big Tech, while also telling deeply human stories of identity, romance, and family. Thirty years later, and Tully has some news. 17 Black-Owned Bookstores to Support RN. The Guardian hails the book as a “masterpiece” and as “a novel of epic proportions [that is] every bit as thrilling, propulsive, darkly comic and stupendously intelligent as its predecessors...The trilogy is complete and it is magnificent”. Hitting everything from #MeToo to faux-wokeness, it’s a novel of manners for our 280-character era. Eric Thomas, This debut novel—so sharp and beautiful it feels anything but—positions Megha Majumdar as a brilliant new talent. Though she’s racked up accolades for her two recent novels—Find Me, her debut full-length narrative from 2015, and The Third Hotel from 2018—the short story seems to be Laura van den Berg’s most natural medium. —AG, This slim volume belies a monumental story of grief and redemption. The seemingly random act of violence is just the start of James McBride’s humorous, electric and heartfelt book — his first novel since the 2013 National Book Award winner The Good Lord Bird.

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