The most popular gender books of 2020

Books about gender ask what it means to be a woman or a man, and who decided. Expectations at home, at work and in love are examined in novels, memoirs and essays. Some are angry, some are funny, and all of them make the familiar look newly strange. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.

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Pretty Things
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Pretty Things

Janelle Brown

2020 · 2021 edition

496 pages

Boy Parts
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Boy Parts

2020 · 2025 edition

297 pages

A Perfect Story
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A Perfect Story

Elísabet Benavent

2020 · 2024 edition

608 pages

Exciting Times
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Exciting Times

Naoise Dolan

2020 · 2021 edition

277 pages

Magic Lessons
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Magic Lessons

Alice Hoffman

2020 · 2021 edition

396 pages

Small Pleasures
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Small Pleasures

Clare Chambers

2020 · 2021 edition

352 pages

Matrix
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Matrix

Lauren Groff

2020 · 2022 edition

272 pages

Wild at Heart
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Wild at Heart

K.A. Tucker

2020 · 2023 edition

400 pages

Grown Ups
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Grown Ups

Marian Keyes

2020 · 2021 edition

688 pages

Sex and Vanity
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Sex and Vanity

Kevin Kwan

2020 · 2021 edition

368 pages

The Jetsetters
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The Jetsetters

Amanda Eyre Ward

2020 · 2021 edition

352 pages