I nearly perished under a pile of books to discuss with you the 100 best books of 2020 according to Time Magazine. I chat through the novels I've read and the books I'm keen to still read. Click ‘Show More’ for info & links.

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Time's Must-Read Books of 2020:
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My Bookshelf Tour video:
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The Best 10 Books of 2020 (according to Publisher's Weekly):
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Books discussed & purchase links:

Actress by Anne Enright
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The Address Book by Deirdre Mask
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African American Poetry by Kevin Young
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Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
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Agency by William Gibson
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Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
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Big Friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
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The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson
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Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami
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Brown Album by Porochista Khakpour

A Burning by Megha Majumdar
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Can't Even by Anne Helen Petersen
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Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
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A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet
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The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
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Cleanness by Garth Greenwell
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Conditional Citizens by Laila Lalami
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Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford

Culture Warlords by Talia Lavin

Days of Distraction by Alexandra Chang

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayétu Moore

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

The End of White Politics by Zerlina Maxwell

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

Enter the Aardvark by Jessica Anthony

Followers by Megan Angelo

A Girl is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Golden Gates by Conor Dougherty

Having and Being Had by Eula Biss

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker

His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie

Hitler by Volker Ullrich

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston

Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar

Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa

I Don’t Want to Die Poor by Michael Arceneaux

I Hold a Wolf by the Ears by Laura van den Berg

If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

Intimations by Zadie Smith

Is Rape a Crime? by Michelle Bowdler

Jack by Marilynne Robinson

Just Us by Claudia Rankine

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo

Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

Let’s Never Talk About This Again by Sara Faith Alterman

Luster by Raven Leilani

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

Memorial by Bryan Washington

Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

Nerve by Eva Holland

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich

Nights When Nothing Happened by Simon Han

Notes on a Silencing by Lacy Crawford

Obit by Victoria Chang

Oligarchy by Scarlett Thomas

One Mighty and Irresistible Tide by Jia Lynn Yang

One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Open Book by Jessica Simpson

Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory

The Pink Line by Mark Gevisser

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

The Purpose of Power by Alicia Garza

Reaganland by Rick Perlstein

Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit

Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon

A Saint from Texas by Edmund White

Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan

She Come by It Natural by Sarah Smarsh

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

The Sword and the Shield by Peniel E. Joseph

To Be a Man by Nicole Krauss

Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri

Topics of Conversation by Miranda Popkey

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Unfree Speech by Joshua Wong

Vanguard by Martha S. Jones

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

Wandering in Strange Lands by Morgan Jerkins

Want by Lynn Steger Strong

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

Weather by Jenny Offill

Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda

Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui

Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby

You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe

150 Glimpses of the Beatles by Craig Brown

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