How many of these books have you added to your to-read list? Below, we’ve selected 89 books coming out in 2020 that we cannot wait to read.
From well-known authors to emerging voices, from edge-of-your-seat thrillers to swoon-worthy love stories, we’ve made sure to include something for everyone – fiction, nonfiction, sci-fi, romance, short stories, memoirs, mysteries, and thrillers.
Are you ready for this? Cause here we go:
1. In an Instant by Suzanne Redfearn
Release date: March 1st
Other books by this author: Hush Little Baby, No Ordinary Life, Taliesin – Choice/Destiny
2. Chain of Gold (The Last Hours #1) by Cassandra Clare
Release date: March 3rd
Other books by this author: The Mortal Instruments series, The Infernal Devices series, The Dark Artifices series
3. House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City #1) by Sarah J. Maas
Release date: March 3rd
Other books by this author: Throne of Glass series, A Court of Thorns and Roses series, Catwoman: Soulstealer
4. If These Wings Could Fly by Kyrie McCauley
Release date: March 3rd
Other books by this author: Summer Nights
5. Lethal Game (GhostWalkers #16) by Christine Feehan
Release date: March 3rd
Other books by this author: Torpedo Ink series, Shadow Riders series, Leopard People series, Dark series
6. The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu
Release date: March 3rd
Other books by this author: Legend series, The Young Elites series, Warcross series
7. The Midnight Lie (The Midnight Lie #1) by Marie Rutkoski
Release date: March 3rd
Other books by this author: The Winner’s Trilogy, The Kronos Chronicles series, The Shadow Society series
8. A Murderous Relation (Veronica Speedwell #5) by Deanna Raybourn
Release date: March 10th
Other books by this author: Lady Julia Grey series, A Spear of Summer Grass
9. Harley in the Sky by Akemi Dawn Bowman
Release date: March 10th
Other books by this author: Starfish, Summer Bird Blue
10. Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs
Release date: March 10th
Other books by this author: Alpha & Omega series, Raven Duology, Hurog Duology, Sianim series, The Hob
11. The Queen’s Bargain (The Black Jewels #10) by Anne Bishop
Release date: March 10th
Other books by this author: The Courtyards of the Others, The World of the Others, The Landscapes of Ephemera, The World of the Fae
12. All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban
Release date: March 17th
Other books by this author: Off the Trail
13. The Electric Heir (Feverwake #2) by Victoria Lee
Release date: March 17th
Other books by this author: A Lesson in Vengeance
14. If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane
Release date: March 24th
Other books by this author: You Had Me at Hello, It’s Not Me, It’s You, Don’t You Forget About Me, Who’s That Girl?
15. The City We Became: A Novel (Great Cities #1) by N.K. Jemisin
Release date: March 24th
Other books by this author: The Broken Earth series, Inheritance series, Dreamblood series, How Long ’til Black Future Month?
16. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
Release date: March 24th
Other books by this author: Station Eleven, The Lola Quartet, The Singer’s Gun, Last Night in Montreal
17. The Sinner (Black Dagger Brotherhood #19) by J.R. Ward
Release date: March 24th
Other books by this author: The Jackal (2020), Where Winter Finds You, Blood Truth
18. Days of Distraction by Alexandra Chang
Release date: March 31st
Other books by this author: To Get Rich Is Glorious
19. Efrén Divided by Ernesto Cisneros
Release date: March 31st
Other books by this author: The Writing On The Wall
20. Imagine Me (Shatter Me #6) by Tahereh Mafi
Release date: March 31st
Other books by this author: Shatter Me series, A Very Large Expanse of Sea
21. I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir by Esther Safran Foer
Release date: March 31st
Other books by this author: –
22. The Loop by Ben Oliver
Release date: April 2nd
Other books by this author: –
23. A Bad Day for Sunshine (Sunshine Vicram #1) by Darynda Jones
Release date: April 7th
Other books by this author: Betwixt & Between series, Charley Davidson series, Darklight series
24. Aru Shah and the Tree of Wishes (Pandava Quartet #3) by Roshani Chokshi
Release date: April 7th
Other books by this author: The Silvered Serpents, The Gilded Wolves, The Star-Touched Queen, A Crown of Wishes
25. Check, Please!, Book 2: Sticks and Scones by Ngozi Ukazu
Release date: April 7th
Other books by this author: Huddle!
26. Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega
Release date: April 7th
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27. Raphael, Painter in Rome by Stephanie Storey
Release date: April 7th
Other books by this author: Oil and Marble
28. Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy #2) by Emily A. Duncan
Release date: April 7th
Other books by this author: Something Dark and Holy series, Crows on Heartstrings: An Anthology of Doomed Love Stories
29. The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez
Release date: April 14th
Other books by this author: The Friend Zone
30. The Last Emperox (The Interdependency #3) by John Scalzi, Wil Wheaton
Release date: April 14th
Other books by this author: The Old Man’s War Novels, Agent to the Stars, The Android’s Dream, Fuzzy Nation
31. The New Husband by D.J. Palmer
Release date: April 14th
Other books by this author: Saving Meghan
32. Shorefall (Founders #2) by Robert Jackson Bennett
Release date: April 21st
Other books by this author: The Divine Cities Trilogy, Foundryside, City of Miracles
33. What’s Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott
Release date: April 21st
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34. Queen of Coin and Whispers by Helen Corcoran
Release date: April 23rd
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35. The Edging Tales of a Heart by Hannah Wade
Release date: April 23rd
Other books by this author: Lover to Lover (2020), Desperado (2020)
36. Starbreaker (Endeavor #2) by Amanda Bouchet
Release date: April 28th
Other books by this author: The Kingmaker Chronicles, A Curse for Spring, Seasons of Sorcery
37. Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon
Release date: April 28th
Other books by this author: Making Faces, What the Wind Knows, From Sand and Ash
38. Lover To Lover by Hannah Wade
Release date: April 30th
Other books by this author: The Edging Tales of a Heart (2020), Desperado (2020)
39. The Way Back by Jamie Fewery
Release date: April 30th
Other books by this author: Our Life in a Day: The Most Uplifting and Heartbreaking Love Story of 2019
40. The Heart Principle (The Kiss Quotient #3) by Helen Hoang
Release date: May 4th
Other books by this author: –
41. Aurora Burning (The Aurora Cycle #2) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Release date: May 5th
Other books by this author: The Elementals Trilogy, The Illuminae Files, The Starbound Trilogy, The Other Side of the Sky
42. Chasing Lucky by Jenn Bennett
Release date: May 5th
Other books by this author: Arcadia Bell series, The Anatomical Shape of a Heart, Starry Eyes, Alex, Approximately
43. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
Release date: May 5th
Other books by this author: The Poet X, With the Fire on High
44. Lobizona (Wolves of No World #1) by Romina Garber, Romina Russell
Release date: May 5th
Other books by this author: The Zodiac quartet
45. Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries #5) by Martha Wells
Release date: May 5th
Other books by this author: Books of the Raksura, Emilie and the Hollow World, City of Bones, Wheel of the Infinite
46. Queen’s Peril (Star Wars Disney Canon Novel) by E.K. Johnston
Release date: May 5th
Other books by this author: Ahsoka, A Thousand Nights series, Exit, Pursued by a Bear, The Inevitable Victorian Thing
47. Someday in Paris by Olivia Lara
Release date: May 14th
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48. Chaos Reigning (Consortium Rebellion #3) by Jessie Mihalik
Release date: May 19th
Other books by this author: Rogue Queen series
49. Engagement and Espionage (Handcrafted Mysteries #1) by Penny Reid
Release date: May 19th
Other books by this author: Knitting in the City series, Winston Brothers series, Hypothesis series
50. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games #0) by Suzanne Collins
Release date: May 19th
Other books by this author: Year of the Jungle, The Underland Chronicles series, When Charlie McButton Lost Power
51. The Thing About Alice by Jean-Luke Swanepoel
Release date: May 21st
Other books by this author: –
52. The Gilded Ones (Deathless #1) by Namina Forna
Release date: May 26th
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53. Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb #2) by Tamsyn Muir
Release date: June 2nd
Other books by this author: The Best Horror of the Year series, Lightspeed Magazine, Dreams from the Witch House
54. My Calamity Jane (The Lady Janies #3) by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
Release date: June 2nd
Other books by this author: The How and the Why, The Afterlife of Holly Chase, The Last Time We Say Goodbye
55. One True King (The School for Good and Evil #6) by Soman Chainani
Release date: June 2nd
Other books by this author: Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World, Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy
56. Where Dreams Descend (Kingdom of Cards #1) by Janella Angeles
Release date: June 2nd
Other books by this author: –
57. Alpha Night (Psy-Changeling Trinity #4) by Nalini Singh
Release date: June 9th
Other books by this author: A Madness of Sunshine, Wolf Rain, Ocean Light, Silver Silence, Wild Embrace
58. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Release date: June 9th
Other books by this author: Lost in the Never Woods (2021)
59. Rage and Ruin, The Harbinger, #2 (The Harbinger #2) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Release date: June 9th
Other books by this author: Wait for You series, Lux series, Covenant series
60. Riviera Gold (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #16) by Laurie R. King
Release date: June 9th
Other books by this author: Kate Martinelli series, Harris Stuyvesant series
61. The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth
Release date: June 9th
Other books by this author: –
62. We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
Release date: June 9th
Other books by this author: Sea of Ink and Gold series
63. The Kinder Poison (The Kinder Poison #1) by Natalie Mae
Release date: June 16th
Other books by this author: –
64. Forest of Souls (Shamanborn #1) by Lori M. Lee
Release date: June 23rd
Other books by this author: Gates of Thread and Stone series, A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
65. The Empire of Gold (The Daevabad Trilogy #3) by S.A. Chakraborty
Release date: June 30th
Other books by this author: The Kingdom of Copper, The City of Brass
66. Opium and Absinthe by Lydia Kang
Release date: July 1st
Other books by this author: Control series, A Beautiful Poison, The Impossible Girl
67. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (An Absolutely Remarkable Thing #2) by Hank Green
Release date: July 7th
Other books by this author: An Absolute Remarkable Thing
68. Loveless by Alice Oseman
Release date: July 9th
Other books by this author: Solitaire, Nick and Charlie, This Winter, Radio Silence, I Was Born for This
69. Peace Talks (The Dresden Files #16) by Jim Butcher
Release date: July 16th
Other books by this author: Cinder Spires, Codex Alera, Darkest Hours
70. Ghost Wood Song (Ghost Wood Song, #1) by Erica Waters
Release date: July 21st
Other books by this author: –
71. The Hollow Gods (The Chaos Cycle Duology #1) by A.J. Vrana
Release date: July 28th
Other books by this author: –
72. Wayward Witch (Brooklyn Brujas #3) by Zoraida Córdova
Release date: August 1st
Other books by this author: The Vicious Deep series, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge series, On the Verge series
73. Paola Santiago and the River of Tears (Paola Santiago #1) by Tehlor Kay Mejia
Release date: August 4th
Other books by this author: We Set the Dark on Fire series, Miss Meteor
74. Star Daughter by Shveta Thakrar
Release date: August 11th
Other books by this author: Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World
75. The Jackal (Black Dagger Brotherhood: Prison Camp #1) by J.R. Ward
Release date: August 11th
Other books by this author: The Sinner (2020), Where Winter Finds You, Blood Truth
76. Darius the Great Deserves Better (Darius The Great #2) by Adib Khorram
Release date: August 25th
Other books by this author: Seven Special Somethings: A Nowruz Story
77. Emerald Blaze (Hidden Legacy #5) by Ilona Andrews
Release date: August 25th
Other books by this author: Kate Daniels, The Iron Covenant, Innkeeper Series, The Edge
78. Return of the Thief (The Queen’s Thief #6) by Megan Whalen Turner
Release date: August 25th
Other books by this author: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings
79. The Winds of Winter (A Song of Ice and Fire #6) by George R.R. Martin
Release date: sometime during 2020 hopefully 🙂
Other books by this author: Hunter’s Run, Tuf Voyaging, Windhaven, Wild Cards
80. The Hunter & the Prey by L.J. Shen
Release date: sometime in 2020
Other books by this author: All Saints High series, Sinners of Saint series, Dirty Headlines, Midnight Blue, Sparrow
81. Blood & Honey (Serpent & Dove #2) by Shelby Mahurin
Release date: September 1st
Other books by this author: Serpent & Dove
82. Bridge of Souls (Cassidy Blake #3) by Victoria Schwab
Release date: September 1st
Other books by this author: Vicious, A Gathering of Shadows, A Conjuring of Light, City of Ghosts
83. Kingdom of the Wicked (Kingdom of the Wicked #1) by Kerri Maniscalco
Release date: September 15th
Other books by this author: Stalking Jack the Ripper series
84. The Ninth Life by Taylor B. Barton, Taylor Brooke
Release date: September 15th
Other books by this author: Out Loud (2021)
85. The Silvered Serpents (The Gilded Wolves #2) by Roshani Chokshi
Release date: September 22nd
Other books by this author: The Gilded Wolves, The Star-Touched Queen, A Crown of Wishes
86. The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo #5) by Rick Riordan
Release date: September 29th
Other books by this author: Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, The Heroes of Olympus series, Kane Chronicles series
87. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Release date: October 6th
Other books by this author: Shades of Magic series, Villains series
88. The Vampire Debt (Shadow World: The Vampire Debt #1) by Ali Winters
Release date: October 11th
Other books by this author: The Hunted series, In the End series, Favor of the Gods
89. A Golden Fury by Samantha Cohoe
Release date: October 13th
Other books by this author: Bright Ruined Things (2021)
So these are the books coming out in 2020 that we’re most excited about. What other upcoming books do you have on your to-read list? Let us know in the comments section below.
