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Our Reader-Selected Best Books of 2020

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Our Reader-Selected Best Books of 2020

Over the last two months, we asked you to share both your favorite book that you read with your book group and your favorite book that you read outside your group in 2020.

The results are in! Below are the top 10 selected titles in each category.

A special congratulations to our contest winner, Anne W. from Pinehurst, NC, who won six fabulous book group titles releasing this year: THE CHILDREN'S BLIZZARD by Melanie Benjamin, ETERNAL by Lisa Scottoline, THE FOUR WINDS by Kristin Hannah, THE PUSH by Ashley Audrain, THE ROSE CODE by Kate Quinn, and WHAT COULD BE SAVED by Liese O'Halloran Schwarz.
 


 

Top 10 Books Read with Your Group:
AMERICAN DIRT by Jeanine Cummins
WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING by Delia Owens
THIS TENDER LAND by William Kent Krueger
THE BOOK WOMAN OF TROUBLESOME CREEK by Kim Michele Richardson
THE GIVER OF STARS by Jojo Moyes
THE ISLAND OF SEA WOMEN by Lisa See
THE DUTCH HOUSE by Ann Patchett
THE VANISHING HALF by Brit Bennett
THE BOOK OF LOST NAMES by Kristin Harmel
BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate

Top 10 Books Read Outside of Your Group: 
AMERICAN DIRT by Jeanine Cummins
THIS TENDER LAND by William Kent Krueger
THE EXILES by Christina Baker Kline
HAMNET: A Novel of the Plague by Maggie O'Farrell
THE BOOK OF LOST NAMES by Kristin Harmel
THE GIRL WITH THE LOUDING VOICE by Abi Daré
ANXIOUS PEOPLE by Fredrik Backman
THE INVISIBLE LIFE OF ADDIE LaRUE by V.E. Schwab
FIFTY WORDS FOR RAIN by Asha Lemmie
THE BOOK OF LONGINGS by Sue Monk Kidd