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Best Books of 2020

From our librarians to your bookshelf: Check out the best reads this year had to offer, with titles for adults, kids, and teens!

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Several young women in contemporary Seoul contend with impossible standards of beauty, ruthless social hierarchies, and class struggle.

Michelle Fernandez

Bronx Bookmobile

Whales and Herman Melville commingle in Hoare's lyrical study of the world's largest mammals and their grip on the human imagination.

The whale : in search of the giants of the sea

Charles Arrowsmith

Editor, Creative Services

New & Noteworthy

The Death of Vivek Oji

Akwaeke Emezi

Adult

Fiction

Dear Girls

Ali Wong

Adult

Nonfiction

The Fix

David Baldacci

Adult

Fiction

The Power

Naomi Alderman

Adult

Fiction

Talking to Strangers

Malcolm Gladwell

Adult

Nonfiction

The Line Becomes a River

Francisco Cantu

Adult

Nonfiction

Wired

Julie Garwood

Adult

Fiction

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh

Adult

Fiction

The President is Missing

James Patterson

Adult

Fiction

Eat the City

Robin Shulman

Adult

Nonfiction

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Carrie McBride

Communications

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