She Reads Awards 2020

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87 books

Thousands of you voted and the winners are IN. Our annual She Reads Awards are voted on by you – readers and fans – and reflect the books you loved most this year. Here are the winners for the best books of the year in the She Reads Awards.

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Best Book of 2020

Winner

Saving Ruby King

Catherine Adel West, 2020

Nominees

The Girl with the Louding Voice

Abi Daré, 2021

Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi, 2020

The Book of Longings

Sue Monk Kidd, 2020

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V. E. Schwab, 2020

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett, 2020

Untamed

Glennon Doyle, 2020

Fable

Adrienne Young, 2020

The Sun Down Motel

Simone St. James, 2020

Thriller

Winner

The Last Flight

Julie Clark, 2020

Nominees

And Now She's Gone

Rachel Howzell Hall, 2020

The Sun Down Motel

Simone St. James, 2020

Long Bright River

Liz Moore, 2020

One by One

Ruth Ware, 2020

Don't Look for Me

Wendy Walker, 2020

The Guest List

Lucy Foley, 2020

When No One Is Watching

Alyssa Cole, 2020

Little Secrets

Jennifer Hillier, 2020

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 2020

Women’s Fiction

Winner

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett, 2020

Nominees

Luster

Raven Leilani, 2020

28 Summers

Elin Hilderbrand, 2020

Dear Emmie Blue

Lia Louis, 2020

The Henna Artist

Alka Joshi, 2020

In Five Years

Rebecca Serle, 2020

His Only Wife

Peace Adzo Medie, 2020

The Girl with the Louding Voice

Abi Daré, 2021

Dear Edward

Ann Napolitano, 2020

Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi, 2020

Romance

Winner

The Happy Ever After Playlist

Abby Jimenez, 2020

Nominees

Beach Read

Emily Henry, 2021

500 Miles from You

Jenny Colgan, 2020

One to Watch

Kate Stayman-London, 2020

Ties That Tether

Jane Igharo, 2020

Take a Hint, Dani Brown

Talia Hibbert, 2020

You Had Me at Hola

Alexis Daria, 2020

The Honey-Don't List

Christina Lauren, 2020

The Boyfriend Project

Farrah Rochon, 2020

The Trouble with Hating You

Sajni Patel, 2020

Memoir + Non-Fiction

Winner

Untamed

Glennon Doyle, 2020

Nominees

Open Book

Jessica Simpson, 2020

Craigslist Confessional

A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers

Helena Dea Bala, 2020

Eat a Peach

David Chang, Gabe Ulla, 2020

Here for It

Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays

R. Eric Thomas, 2020

High Achiever

The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life

Tiffany Jenkins, 2019

The Undocumented Americans

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, 2021

Memorial Drive

A Daughter's Memoir

Natasha Trethewey, 2020

The Beauty in Breaking

Michele Harper, 2020

Historical Fiction

Winner

Big Lies in a Small Town

Diane Chamberlain, 2020

Nominees

The Last Train to Key West

Chanel Cleeton, 2020

The Book of Lost Names

Kristin Harmel, 2020

The Pull of the Stars

Emma Donoghue, 2020

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell, 2020

The Book of Longings

Sue Monk Kidd, 2020

The Lions of Fifth Avenue

Fiona Davis, 2021

These Ghosts Are Family

Maisy Card, 2020

Fast Girls

A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team

Elise Hooper, 2020

The Mountains Sing

Que Mai Phan Nguyen, 2020

Young Adult

Winner

Clap When You Land

Elizabeth Acevedo, 2020

Nominees

Fable

Adrienne Young, 2020

Felix Ever After

Kacen Callender, 2020

Tweet Cute

Emma Lord, 2020

A Heart So Fierce and Broken

Brigid Kemmerer, 2020

Furia

Yamile Saied Méndez, 2020

This Is My America

Kim Johnson, 2020

The Black Kids

Christina Hammonds Reed, 2020

Don't Ask Me Where I'm From

Jennifer De Leon, 2020

Surprise Hits

Winner

Beach Read

Emily Henry, 2021

The House in the Cerulean Sea

Oona Out of Order

Margarita Montimore, 2020

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V. E. Schwab, 2020

The Sun Down Motel

Simone St. James, 2020

They Wish They Were Us

Jessica Goodman, 2020

When No One Is Watching

Alyssa Cole, 2020

Writers & Lovers

Lily King, 2020

The Death of Vivek Oji

Akwaeke Emezi, 2020

One to Watch

Kate Stayman-London, 2020

Best Cover

Winner

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia, 2020

It Is Wood, It Is Stone

Gabriella Burnham, 2020

Topics of Conversation

Miranda Popkey, 2020

All Boys Aren't Blue

A Memoir-Manifesto

George M. Johnson, 2020

The Majesties

Tiffany Tsao, 2020

The Year of the Witching

Alexis Henderson, 2020

The Sun Down Motel

Simone St. James, 2020

The Girl with the Louding Voice

Abi Daré, 2021

Fable

Adrienne Young, 2020

Felix Ever After

Kacen Callender, 2020