New York Public Library Reveals Its Best Books In 2020 To End This Long Chapter
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Aside from throwing themselves in video games, people have been returning to books as a form of escape from the chaotic year.
If you’re on the lookout for quality reads to bring you into a healthy headspace, the New York Public Library (NYPL) has unveiled its Best Books for the year for adults, teens, kids, and poetry lovers. The lineups were curated by expert librarians after hours of reading through “innovative, vibrant, and relevant books for New Yorkers today.”
According to the library, the top reading picks for grownups were selected to offer escape, help readers learn from the past, place them in scenarios of “futures both dark and bright,” and highlight “the moment we’re in.”
Explore the NYPL’s best 10 books for adults in 2020, and see the full lineups here.
The City We Became: A Novel by N.K. Jemisin
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Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague by Maggie O'Farrell
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
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Interior Chinatown: A Novel by Charles Yu
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
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Luster by Raven Leilani
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The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
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The Sacrifice of Darkness by Roxane Gay & Tracy Lynne Oliver
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The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel by Grady Hendrix
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Temporary: A Novel by Hilary Leichter
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[via Hyperallergic, images via various sources]
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