The most popular family books of 2020

Books about family explore the people we never chose and can never quite leave. Parents and children, brothers and sisters, old wounds and deep loyalty are at the heart of these stories. Whether warm or painful, they show how a family shapes everyone in it, across years and generations. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.

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Beach Read
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Beach Read

Emily Henry, 에밀리 헨리

Published 2020

361 pages

In Five Years
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In Five Years

Rebecca Serle, Ребекка Сёрл

2020 · 2021 edition

288 pages

Untamed
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Untamed

Glennon Doyle

Published 2020

352 pages

Hamnet
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Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell, 玛姬·欧法洛, 瑪姬·歐法洛

2020 · 2025 edition

372 pages

My Dark Vanessa
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My Dark Vanessa

Kate Elizabeth Russell, 凯特·伊丽莎白·拉塞尔, 케이트 엘리자베스 러셀

Published 2020

372 pages

Imagine Me
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Imagine Me

Tahereh Mafi

2020 · 2023 edition

450 pages

Dear Edward
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Dear Edward

Ann Napolitano

2020 · 2021 edition

400 pages

Shuggie Bain
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Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart

Published 2020

430 pages

Legendborn
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Legendborn

Tracy Deonn, Трейсі Деонн

Published 2020

502 pages

Invisible Girl
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Invisible Girl

Lisa Jewell

2020 · 2021 edition

384 pages

The Searcher
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The Searcher

Tana French

2020 · 2021 edition

451 pages

Ghosts
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Ghosts

Dolly Alderton

2020 · 2022 edition

320 pages