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
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 The Rage of Dragons
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 Queen of the Conquered
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 Children of Virtue and Vengeance
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 Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
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 Song of Blood & Stone
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 The Black Tides of Heaven
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 The Wall of Storms
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 Shadowshaper
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 The Grace of Kings
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 Followers
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 The Book of Eels
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 You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
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 Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
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 Why We Swim
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 Where the Wild Ladies Are
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 Weather
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 We Ride Upon Sticks
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 Want
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 Wandering in Strange Lands
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 The Vanishing Half
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 The Undocumented Americans |
 Tokyo Ueno Station
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 The Splendid and the Vile
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 Shuggie Bain
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 Sex and Vanity
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 Run Me to Earth
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 Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
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 Postcolonial Love Poem Postcolonial Love Poem
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 Piranesi
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 Party of Two
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 Open Book
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 The Only Good Indians
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 One to Watch
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 Obit
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 The Night Watchman
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 My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
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 The Mirror & the Light
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 Minor Feelings
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 Migrations
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 Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
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 Memorial
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 The Lying Life of Adults
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 Luster
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 Leave the World Behind
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 Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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 Jack
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 Interior Chinatown
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 If I Had Your Face
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 I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
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 Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
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 Homeland Elegies
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 Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
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 Hitler
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 His Only Wife
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 Hidden Valley Road
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 Having and Being Had
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 The Glass Hotel
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 Enter the Aardvark
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 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
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 Earthlings
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 The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
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 Deacon King Kong
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 Culture Warlords: Dispatches from the Dark Web of White Supremacy
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 Crooked Hallelujah
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 Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
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 Cleanness
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 The City We Became
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 A Children's Bible
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 Caste
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 Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
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 A Burning
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 Breasts and Eggs
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 Big Friendship
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 Begin Again
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 Agency
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 Afterlife
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 African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song |
 The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
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 Actress
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