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 |
 The Rage of Dragons
| 4.29 |
 Queen of the Conquered
| 3.5 |
 Children of Virtue and Vengeance
| 3.49 |
 Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
| 3.05 |
 Song of Blood & Stone
| 3 |
 The Black Tides of Heaven
| 3.52 |
 The Wall of Storms
| 4.37 |
 Shadowshaper
| 3.8 |
 The Grace of Kings
| 3.71 |
 Followers
| 3.21 |
 The Book of Eels
| 3.53 |
 You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
| 3.86 |
 Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
| 3.91 |
 Why We Swim
| 3.86 |
 Where the Wild Ladies Are
| 3.89 |
 Weather
| 3.54 |
 We Ride Upon Sticks
| 3.91 |
 Want
| 3.5 |
 Wandering in Strange Lands
| 3 |
 The Vanishing Half
| 4.14 |
 The Undocumented Americans | 4.17 |
 Tokyo Ueno Station
| 3.38 |
 The Splendid and the Vile
| 4.19 |
 Shuggie Bain
| 4.34 |
 Sex and Vanity
| 2.74 |
 Run Me to Earth
| 3.5 |
 Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
| 4.13 |
 Postcolonial Love Poem Postcolonial Love Poem
| 0 |
 Piranesi
| 4.25 |
 Party of Two
| 4.31 |
 Open Book
| 3.96 |
 The Only Good Indians
| 3.77 |
 One to Watch
| 3.75 |
 Obit
| 4.29 |
 The Night Watchman
| 4.02 |
 My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
| 3.6 |
 The Mirror & the Light
| 4.36 |
 Minor Feelings
| 4.15 |
 Migrations
| 4.17 |
 Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
| 4.45 |
 Memorial
| 3.41 |
 The Lying Life of Adults
| 3.56 |
 Luster
| 3.62 |
 Leave the World Behind
| 3.28 |
 Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
| 4.13 |
 Jack
| 4 |
 Interior Chinatown
| 3.93 |
 If I Had Your Face
| 3.77 |
 I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
| 0 |
 Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
| 4.25 |
 Homeland Elegies
| 4.3 |
 Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
| 3.8 |
 Hitler
| 4.5 |
 His Only Wife
| 3.7 |
 Hidden Valley Road
| 4.04 |
 Having and Being Had
| 3.55 |
 The Glass Hotel
| 3.84 |
 Enter the Aardvark
| 3 |
 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
| 4.34 |
 Earthlings
| 3.68 |
 The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
| 4.75 |
 Deacon King Kong
| 4.23 |
 Culture Warlords: Dispatches from the Dark Web of White Supremacy
| 4 |
 Crooked Hallelujah
| 3 |
 Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
| 4 |
 Cleanness
| 3.91 |
 The City We Became
| 3.87 |
 A Children's Bible
| 3.6 |
 Caste
| 4.45 |
 Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
| 3.9 |
 A Burning
| 3.36 |
 Breasts and Eggs
| 3.89 |
 Big Friendship
| 5 |
 Begin Again
| 4.1 |
 Agency
| 3.69 |
 Afterlife
| 3.63 |
 African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song | 0 |
 The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
| 3.89 |
 Actress
| 0 |
