r/suggestmeabook · 2020
Top books in r/suggestmeabook during 2020
Ranked by mentions in r/suggestmeabook threads dated 2020. Useful for spotting what r/suggestmeabook was picking up or putting down that year.
#1 The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune
A buttoned-up caseworker is sent to inspect an orphanage of six magical children, one of them the literal Antichrist, and has to decide whether the rulebook is wrong.
#2 The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
Patroclus follows Achilles into the Trojan War, narrating the years it takes to watch the boy he loves become the killer a prophecy always promised.
#3 Circe
Madeline Miller
An exiled witch on a deserted island turns men into pigs and spends three thousand years deciding what she actually wants.
#4 The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
A suicidal bridge slave assigned to the war camp's deadliest crew starts hearing storms answer when he gives orders.
#5 Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
A street thief gets recruited into a heist crew plotting to overthrow a god-emperor who has ruled unchallenged for a thousand years.
#6 The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
A woman searches a dying continent for the daughter her husband stole, while the world ends again on schedule.
#7 The Lord of the Rings
J. R. R. Tolkien
A gardener, a burglar's heir, and seven others walk a piece of jewelry to a volcano because destroying it is the only way to stop a war.
#8 All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries)
Martha Wells
A security robot hacks its own governor module, gains free will, and spends its days streaming soap operas instead of killing anyone.
#9 A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Four friends build lives together in New York while one of them quietly refuses to let anyone near his own past.
#10 East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Two families retrace Cain and Abel across three generations in California's Salinas Valley, and one brother begs God to make him good.
#11 The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
A framed sailor rots in an island prison for fourteen years, escapes with a fortune, and spends the rest of the book collecting on every debt of vengeance.
#12 The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
In Nazi Germany, a girl who can barely read steals books from bonfires and burglarized shelves while Death keeps count of who dies next on her street.
#13 The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
An orphaned actor's son claws his way toward becoming a legend by the University's fire-and-sympathy magic — a story stuck at book two for over a decade.
#14 Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
An orphaned governess falls for her brooding employer, then finds out exactly what he's been hiding in the attic.
#15 Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A broke ex-student murders a pawnbroker to prove a theory about great men, then spends 500 pages failing to live with it.
#16 The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
A burglar with no interest in adventure gets talked into robbing a dragon by a wizard who never quite explains the plan.
#17 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers
A ragtag crew takes a multi-year tunneling job to punch a wormhole through space and mostly just has to get along with each other for the ride.
#18 The Martian
Andy Weir
A botanist gets left for dead on Mars and has to grow food on a planet that wants him gone, one duct-taped fix at a time.
#19 Dune
Frank Herbert
A duke's son survives his family's betrayal on a desert planet and becomes the prophet who leads its people to war.
#20 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Earth gets demolished for a hyperspace bypass minutes after a man's house is demolished for a road, and his best friend turns out to be an alien with a towel.
#21 The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
Two magicians raised as weapons fall in love inside a black-and-white circus that only opens at night — and neither controls the story anymore.
#22 Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
A wife vanishes on her fifth wedding anniversary, and her husband's grief looks more like a performance every day.
#23 Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
Six criminals with nothing in common but debt attempt an impossible heist inside the world's most guarded fortress.
#24 Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
An abandoned girl raises herself alone in a North Carolina marsh, then becomes the prime suspect when the town golden boy turns up dead.
#25 Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
A socially isolated office worker who talks to no one and drinks alone every weekend gets pulled into an unlikely friendship that saves her life.