10 bestselling books of 2020 you should’ve read already

If you haven’t read any of these books you haven’t enjoyed 2020 as much as you should have. Newspapers have reported that due to the pandemic book sales in 2020 were the highest in the last few years. People who were stuck at home and couldn’t meet friends or family, found comfort in their old best buddies – books. And if you’re wondering what they read, well here’s a list of 10 books that a majority of the book reading community read and loved – including me.

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Before you die you get to go to a Library with endless shelves. Each book on the shelf offers you a chance for another life you could have lived. Wouldn’t you want to see how things would’ve have turned out if you’d chosen another life? Would you want to do something differently or would undo your regrets? Read this story for the unique take on life and death. It is extremely imaginative and creative.

A bank robbery gone wrong. A robber who disappears. A group of eight strangers, anxious and held hostage. Each of them carries a lifetime of grievances, hurts, secrets, and passions that are able to burst. None of them is entirely who they seem to be. And yet they discover a commonness they find surprising. A story about friendship, and hope. It is funny as it is witty and clever. Do not miss this fine piece of literature.

A wedding party. A remote island. 150 guests. Each with a secret. Each with a motive to murder. A storm. A killer among the guests.

The world-building was extraordinary. The haunted island with its crashing waves, steep cliff and mysterious bog, was so clenching it would make you believe in ghosts. I loved the Guest List because it managed to create a mystery not just around the murderer and but          around who gets murdered. That revelation is as shocking as the reveal of the murderer.

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

In the latest thriller from New York Times bestseller Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made popular by the bestselling horror memoir written by her father. Is the place really haunted by dark spirits, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound—but vicious—secrets hidden within its walls?

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

A revolutionary read about Black history. While many were fighting for equal rights, some colored people learned to live a life among the whites. A life that hid their past, and threatened their present. Discover a story of twin sisters, born just seven minutes apart and yet so different  from one another. One runs away from their insignificant village to breathe free, while the other does so to start living a white life. An emotional read, with a story like no other.

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T J Klune

Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in charge of magical youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to cause the end of the planet . Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would go to any lengths to keep the children safe, even if it means he has to burn this world. And his secrets will come to light. The House in the Cerulean sea is a fascinating romance , masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours.

Enter a faculty of magic unlike any you've got ever encountered.
There aren't any teachers, no holidays, friendships are purely strategic, and therefore the odds of survival are never equal. Once you're inside, there are only two ways out: you graduate otherwise you die.

El Higgins is uniquely prepared for the school's dangers. She could be without friends, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out untold millions - never mind easily destroy the countless monsters that prowl the school.
Except, she might accidentally kill all the opposite students, too. So El is trying her hardest to not use it . . . that is, unless she has no other choice.

Frankly, I did not enjoy this one book on the list as much as I should have. I hope the next book in the series has a better plot and plenty of dialogue. 

Beach Read by Emily Henry

Set over one sizzling summer, Beach Read may be a witty romance which will cause you to laugh tons , cry a touch and fall head over heels. For fans of The Flat Share and If I Never Met You. 'Clever and funny, this is often a contemporary love story'.

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

When Emira is apprehended at a supermarket for 'kidnapping' the white child she's actually babysitting, it triggers an explosive chain of events. Her employer Alix, a feminist blogger with the simplest and best of intentions, decides to make things right.

But Emira herself is aimless, broke and wary of Alix's desire to assist her. When a surprising connection emerges between the two women, it sends them on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know – about themselves, each other, and the messy dynamics of privilege.

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

Take a Hint, Dani Brown is about Danika who is an ambitious, driven, and a type of workaholic woman who thinks she has absolutely no time or mental space for a romantic relationship, but definitely wants sex, and Zafir who is a former Rugby player now turned security guard and is a hopeless romantic. One day there’s a fire drill in their building and Dani gets stuck in a lift. That’s where Zafir comes to the rescue. This rescue gets recorded and the video goes viral and that is where their story begins.

Which one did you pick? Let me know in the comments.