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.
 Elatsoe
| 3.97 | 109 reads | |
 The Rage of Dragons
| 4.29 | 158 reads | |
 Queen of the Conquered
| 3.5 | 10 reads | |
 Children of Virtue and Vengeance
| 3.49 | 72 reads | |
 Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
| 3.05 | 102 reads | |
 Song of Blood & Stone
| 3 | 5 reads | |
 The Black Tides of Heaven
| 3.52 | 62 reads | |
 The Wall of Storms
| 4.37 | 46 reads | |
 Shadowshaper
| 3.8 | 16 reads | |
 The Grace of Kings
| 3.71 | 153 reads | |
 Followers
| 3.21 | 7 reads | |
 The Book of Eels
| 3.53 | 18 reads | |
 You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
| 3.86 | 16 reads | |
 Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
| 3.91 | 47 reads | |
 Why We Swim
| 3.86 | 15 reads | |
 Where the Wild Ladies Are
| 4.4 | 9 reads | |
 Weather
| 3.54 | 45 reads | |
 We Ride Upon Sticks
| 3.86 | 35 reads | |
 Want
| 3.5 | 5 reads | |
 Wandering in Strange Lands
| 3 | 1 read | |
 The Vanishing Half
| 4.15 | 378 reads | |
 The Undocumented Americans
| 4.21 | 17 reads | |
 Tokyo Ueno Station
| 3.38 | 45 reads | |
 The Splendid and the Vile
| 4.19 | 85 reads | |
 Shuggie Bain
| 4.34 | 104 reads | |
 Sex and Vanity
| 2.74 | 25 reads | |
 Run Me to Earth
| 3.5 | 2 reads | |
 Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
| 4.13 | 8 reads | |
 Postcolonial Love Poem Postcolonial Love Poem
| 0 | 1 read | |
 Piranesi
| 4.25 | 994 reads | |
 Party of Two
| 4.31 | 20 reads | |
 Open Book
| 3.96 | 33 reads | |
 The Only Good Indians
| 3.77 | 199 reads | |
 One to Watch
| 3.75 | 75 reads | |
 Obit
| 4.29 | 10 reads | |
 The Night Watchman
| 4.08 | 48 reads | |
 My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
| 3.6 | 5 reads | |
 The Mirror & the Light
| 4.33 | 33 reads | |
 Minor Feelings
| 4.15 | 47 reads | |
 Migrations
| 4.17 | 66 reads | |
 Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
| 4.45 | 13 reads | |
 Memorial
| 3.41 | 46 reads | |
 The Lying Life of Adults
| 3.56 | 39 reads | |
 Luster
| 3.62 | 117 reads | |
 Leave the World Behind
| 3.28 | 176 reads | |
 Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
| 4.13 | 215 reads | |
 Jack
| 4 | 1 read | |
 Interior Chinatown
| 3.93 | 139 reads | |
 If I Had Your Face
| 3.77 | 55 reads | |
 I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
| 0 | 0 reads | |
 Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
| 4.25 | 76 reads | |
 Homeland Elegies
| 4.3 | 25 reads | |
 Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
| 3.8 | 7 reads | |
 Hitler
| 4.5 | 2 reads | |
 His Only Wife
| 3.7 | 11 reads | |
 Hidden Valley Road
| 4.04 | 16 reads | |
 Having and Being Had
| 3.55 | 15 reads | |
 The Glass Hotel
| 3.84 | 234 reads | |
 Enter the Aardvark
| 3 | 3 reads | |
 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
| 4.36 | 90 reads | |
 Earthlings
| 3.68 | 197 reads | |
 The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
| 4.75 | 6 reads | |
 Deacon King Kong
| 4.23 | 46 reads | |
 Culture Warlords: Dispatches from the Dark Web of White Supremacy
| 4 | 20 reads | |
 Crooked Hallelujah
| 3 | 3 reads | |
 Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
| 4 | 5 reads | |
 Cleanness
| 3.91 | 14 reads | |
 The City We Became
| 3.87 | 263 reads | |
 A Children's Bible
| 3.6 | 47 reads | |
 Caste
| 4.45 | 156 reads | |
 Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
| 3.9 | 14 reads | |
 A Burning
| 3.36 | 36 reads | |
 Breasts and Eggs
| 3.89 | 87 reads | |
 Big Friendship
| 5 | 2 reads | |
 Begin Again
| 4.1 | 7 reads | |
 Agency
| 3.69 | 64 reads | |
 Afterlife
| 3.63 | 10 reads | |
 African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song | 0 | 1 read | |
 The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
| 3.89 | 16 reads | |
 Actress
| 0 | 2 reads |
