If You Read Anything This Year, Make It One Of These Books
The Best Books Of 2020 (So Far) — If You Read Anything This Year, Make It One Of These Books
In a world of insecurity, the consistent churn of modern books from brilliant creators remains one of the few things we will check on. As we move into the summer, ordinarily a tall point of the year for the distributing industry, the slate of new releases looks a bit distinctive than it did a number of months back. But whereas some dates have been pushed back, the book trade remains one of the few able to walk ahead. For those of us who announced in an prior life that we’d be eager perusers in case we fair had more time at domestic, usually the minute.
We're all still reeling from last year's great releases, but 2020 has already made a splash for readers everywhere, and it still has more in store for you! Loads of fantastic titles were released in January alone, and the reading just gets better with each passing
1 Wandering in Strange Lands:
A Daughter of the Great Migration
Reclaims Her Roots by
Morgan Jerkins
Morgan Jerkins, who was raised in New Jersey, traces the roots of her family tree and the way in which the Great Migration shaped the black experience in Wandering in Strange Lands. Traveling throughout the country, she explores the path her family took as well as her cultural identity as a black woman. Her desire to understand both her personal and cultural origins will inspire you to do the same. —AG
2 Sea Wife by
Amity Gaige
A husband eager to escape it all and his reluctant wife leave their Connecticut lives for a yearlong Caribbean voyage with their two children. The husband never returns. In her new novel Sea Wife, Amity Gaige depicts the journey from a dual point of view, interspersing the wife’s recollections of how it all went wrong with diary entries from the husband, both of which cut to the heart of mundane marital strife and the legacy of trauma. —AG
3 The Undocumented Americans by
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Part memoir, part reckoning, Cornejo Villavicencio exposes the reality of life as an undocumented immigrant in six astounding essays. As she travels across the U.S., surveying and chronicling the experiences of immigrants living in New York, Miami, Cleveland, New Haven, and Flint, Cornejo Villavicencio introduces us to the people who perform some of America’s most essential services while unequivocally destroying the right-wing talking points that villainize the undocumented. For all who consider themselves Americans, The Undocumented Americans is an urgent must-read. —Julie Kosin
4 Rodham by
Curtis Sittenfeld
In her seventh book, Sittenfeld embraces an audacious but simple concept: What would the life of Hillary look like had she never married Bill? While Sittenfeld’s American Wife, which traced the experiences of a very Laura Bush-esque figure, used a similar approach, Rodham goes much farther, showing both the successes that Hillary could have achieved on her own and the trail Bill would've gone down without her by his side. Though they might be fictional, Sittenfeld's piercing insights into the psychology of a woman whose feelings we know so little make for a fascinating reading experience. —AG
5 Stray: A Memoir by
Stephanie Danler
A memoir from the author of the best-selling novel Sweetbitter, Stephanie Danler’s Stray chronicles both her tumultuous childhood as the daughter of two addicts and her adult life after releasing the book that made her famous. Upon returning to her California hometown to care for her newly disabled mother, Danler plunges back into the dynamics of her chaotic youth and becomes embroiled in an affair with a married childhood friend. —AG
We're all still reeling from last year's great releases, but 2020 has already made a splash for readers everywhere, and it still has more in store for you! Loads of fantastic titles were released in January alone, and the reading just gets better with each passing
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