The 15 Best Books to Read in 2020

Revealed via surprise announcement in September 2019, the reclusive writer’s latest title leaves behind the characters of the Neapolitan Novels to tell a new tale in the same setting. Playing on Ferrante’s favorite themes of beauty versus ugliness and class mobility, The Lying Life of Adults tells the story of a rich and rebellious teenager’s coming of age in a divided Naples.

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The Best Books of 2020 (So Far)

Another year, another one trillion new books coming out. The pace and sheer volume of book releases can be daunting, with every piece of marketing copy claiming that this will be the read that changes your life. How can you tell which is actually going to be worth your time? Leave that to us: we've been doing our homework, scouring publisher catalogues, scoping out early reviews, and doing the reading to suss out which books are actually the best of the year. Here are those titles that we think you should flag for your shelves, too. What else do you have going on?

More: https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/best-books-of-2020

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