Atomic Books' Best Selling Fiction & Poetry of 2020

1. Dune by Frank Herbert

2. Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler

3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

4. Severance by Ling Ma

5. Normal People by Sally Rooney

6. Girls Like Us by Elizabeth Hazen

7. City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

8. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem 

9. Song For A New Day by Sarah Pinsker 

10. Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

11. A Brief History Of Seven Killings by Marlon James

12. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

13. Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes by Suzanne Collins

14. Death On The Nile by Agatha Christie

15. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

16. Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu 

17. Agency by William Gibson

18. The Searcher by Tana French

19. Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

20. Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

21. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

22. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

23. Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

24. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

25. Overstory by Richard Powers

26. Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

27. Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James

28. Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff

29. Circe by Madeline Miller

30. Lying Life Of Adults by Elena Ferrante

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