Year-End Lists

Real Simple: The Best Books of 2020

1. Rest and Be Thankful
   Emma Glass
2. Take It Back
   Kia Abdullah
3. To Be a Man
   Nicole Krauss
4. Survival of the Thickest
   Michelle Buteau
5. The Chicken Sisters
   KJ Dell'Antonia
6. The Office of Historical Corrections
   Danielle Evans
7. I'll Be Seeing You
   Elizabeth Berg
8. White Ivy
   Susie Yang
9. Cobble Hill
   Cecily von Ziegesar
10. Memorial
    Bryan Washington
11. Just Like You
    Nick Hornby
12. Once I Was You

    A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America
    Maria Hinojosa
13. The Talented Miss Farwell
    Emily Gray Tedrowe
14. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
    V.E. Schwab
15. Dear Child
    Romy Hausmann
16. The Smallest Lights in the Universe
    Sara Seager
17. A Knock at Midnight

    A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
    Brittany K. Barnett
18. Transcendent Kingdom
    Yaa Gyasi
19. Anxious People
    Fredrik Backman
20. The Exiles
    Christina Baker Kline
21. What You Wish For
    Katherine Center
22. Fast Girls

    A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team
    Elise Hooper
23. Notes on a Silencing
    Lacy Crawford
24. The Golden Cage
    Camilla Läckberg
25. Mother Land
    Leah Franqui
26. You Exist Too Much
    Zaina Arafat
27. The Last Flight
    Julie Clark
28. Friends and Strangers
    J. Courtney Sullivan
29. Empty
    Susan Burton
30. All My Mother's Lovers
    Ilana Masad
31. Big Summer
    Jennifer Weiner
32. The Book of V.
    Anna Solomon
33. Like Crazy

    Life with My Mother and Her Invisible Friends
    Dan Mathews
34. Rodham
    Curtis Sittenfeld
35. The Book of Longings
    Sue Monk Kidd
36. A Hundred Suns
    Karin Tanabe
37. This Is Big

    How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World
    Marisa Meltzer
38. Pretty Things
    Janelle Brown
39. Valentine
    Elizabeth Wetmore
40. The Herd
    Andrea Bartz
41. The Mountains Sing
    Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
42. House Lessons

    Renovating a Life
    Erica Bauermeister
43. The Glass Hotel
    Emily St. John Mandel
44. Separation Anxiety
    Laura Zigman
45. Oona Out of Order
    Margarita Montimore
46. The Authenticity Project
    Clare Pooley
47. You Never Forget Your First

    A Biography of George Washington
    Alexis Coe
48. When Time Stopped

    A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
    Ariana Neumann
49. Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes
    Kathleen West
50. A Long Petal of the Sea
    Isabel Allende
51. Friendship

    The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental
    Lydia Denworth
52. Recipe for a Perfect Wife
    Karma Brown
53. Such a Fun Age
    Kiley Reid
54. Topics of Conversation
    Miranda Popkey
55. Followers
    Megan Angelo
56. Dear Edward
    Ann Napolitano
57. Why We Can't Sleep

    Women's New Midlife Crisis
    Ada Calhoun
58. Long Bright River
    Liz Moore
59. American Dirt
    Jeanine Cummins