Top 10 Picks from Amazon's Best Books of 2020
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A Knock at Midnight
by Brittany K. Barnett

An award-winning attorney presents an urgent call for justice-system reform in the story of a disadvantaged, African-American single mother from the rural South who was separated from her young daughter and sentenced to life in prison for a first-time offense.
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectactular Fall of Aadam Neuman and WeWork 
by Reeves Wiedeman

Chronicles the rise and fall of WeWork, the freelance office real estate company, detailing CEO Adam Neumann's relationships with investors, its chaotic expansion, and a day-by-day account of the weeks leading up to WeWork's botched IPO.
The Good Book of Southern Baking: A Revival of Biscuits, Cakes, and Cornbread
by Kelly Fields

The James Beard Award-winning pastry chef combines sentimental storytelling with more than 100 beloved Southern baking recipes.
The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for American Freedom
by H. W. Brands

Follows the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham Lincoln—two men moved to radically different acts to confront our nation’s gravest sin.
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
by Becky Cooper

Documents the unsolved 1969 murder of Harvard student Jane Britton, sharing insights into how the case was clouded by false rumors and the realities of gender inequality and institutional silence in period academic circles. 
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl 
by Jonathan C. Slaght

A young field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern Russia.
Fifty Words for Rain
by Asha Lemmie

Abandoned by a mother who instructs her never to fight or ask questions, an illegitimate child of mixed heritage in 1948 Kyoto forges a powerful bond with her older half-brother against the wishes of their formidable grandparents. 
The Devil and the Dark Water
by Stuart Turton

Sailing back to Amsterdam as a prisoner accused of an unknown crime, Detective Pipps relies on his faithful sidekick to help solve an onboard mystery in the new novel from the author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle. 
If I Never Met You
by Mhairi McFarlane

Humiliated when her long-time boyfriend breaks up with her amid rumors of an illicit pregnancy, Laurie agrees to pretend she is seriously dating the office playboy, who needs a steady girlfriend to protect his professional integrity. 
Black Sun
by Rebecca Roanhorse

A god will return
When the earth and sky converge
Under the black sun

In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world.

Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man&;s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio, is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain.
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