What could be better than curling up somewhere cosy with a brilliant new book? Very little, if we’re honest. Reading is one of the great joys of life.
We’ve rounded up the most exciting books due to be published in 2020. Our pick includes memoirs, exciting debut novels and new stuff from old favourites.
The prices listed below reflect the cost of hardbacks, but most titles have cheaper options for digital download.
Sit back, pre-order and enjoy your 2020 reading list.American Dirt: A Novel by Jeanine Cummins,
Amazon, £10.49A beautifully written and page-turner of a novel about a bookshop owner called Lydia, who escapes
Mexico with her son. An important, elucidating book.
Buy it now.The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante, Amazon, £19.84 A powerful new novel set in Naples, from the international bestselling author of the Neopolitan trilogy novels. Anyone who loved My Brilliant Friend should pre-order quicker than you can say “pseudonym”.
Buy it now.Grown Ups by Marian Keyes, Amazon, £14 What a treat. A new book from one of the best-loved authors on the planet (also one of the funniest people on social media). Marian Keyes gave us The Break, Rachel’s Holiday, and she is back with a story about family secrets.
Buy it now.Motherwell: A Girlhood by Deborah Orr, Waterstones, £13.99 A moving, masterful memoir that explores the mother-daughter relationship, written by the legendary late and great journalist Deborah Orr.
Buy it now.Actress by Anne Enright, Amazon, £11.89This novel by Booker-winning author Anne Enright follows the life story of a famous actress — taking us through emotional highs and lows, by way of
Hollywood and the West End — told from her daughter’s perspective.
Buy it now.The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Waterstones, £16.99 A moving, important debut novel from the political writer who brought us Between the World and Me and We Were Eight Years in Power. It’s about a boy born on a
Virginia plantation who discovers he has mysterious powers.
Buy it now.Six Wicked Reasons by Jo
Spain, Amazon, £16.99 A man goes missing, presumed dead. Ten years later, with his mother dead and his siblings scattered all over the world, he reappears. That’s when the real drama starts.
Buy it now.Rootbound: Rewilding a Life by Alice Vincent, Amazon, £10.49 A book about heartbreak, salvation, nature and balcony gardens. South
London writer Alice Vincent mixes memoir with botanical history to explore how plants can heal us.
Buy it now. Ghosts by Dolly Alderton, Amazon, £14.99 Dolly Alderton’s tender, funny debut novel is about a 32-year-old food writer who gets ghosted by a man on a dating app, right at the time when she’s trying to put her life together, keep all her friends and look after her parents.
Buy it now. Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid, Amazon, £9.35 A clever, dark yet funny novel about what happens when a black woman is accused of kidnapping the white child she is babysitting.
Buy it now.Olive by Emma Gannon, Amazon, £14.99 Journalist and podcast host Emma Gannon’s debut novel is about a woman who wants to live a different life from all her friends, just as they’re all starting to settle into their adult lives.
Buy it now. Home Stretch by Sally Howard, Amazon, £14.99Decades of feminism later and research repeatedly finds that women still do the majority of the housework. Sally Howard’s investigation into the domestic labour gap is enlightening and entertaining, and is an important read for both men and women.
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