Barnett’s A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT Named Amazon’s Best Book of 2020
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Brittany K. Barnett’s A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT: A Story of Hope, Justice and Freedom (Crown) has been named Best Book of 2020 by Amazon.
The Amazon editors’ Top 20 picks for Best Book of the Year also include these titles published by Penguin Random House imprints, ranked as follows:
#5: Brit Bennett’s THE VANISHING HALF (Riverhead)
#6: Asha Lemmie’s FIFTY WORDS FOR RAIN (Dutton)
#7: Isabel Wilkerson’s CASTE: The Origins of Our Discontents (Random House)
#8: Abi Daré’s THE GIRL WITH THE LOUDING VOICE (Dutton)
#9: Bryan Washington’s MEMORIAL (Riverhead)
#10: Robert Kolker’s HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD: Inside the Mind of an American Family (Doubleday)
#11: Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s MEXICAN GOTHIC (Del Rey)
#13: Megha Majumdar’s A BURNING (Knopf)
#17: Janelle Brown’s PRETTY THINGS (Random House)
#18: James McBride’s DEACON KING KONG (Riverhead)
Also, books published by Penguin Random House imprints are #1 on several of Amazon’s Best Book of 2020 category lists:
Biographies and Memoirs: Brittany K. Barnett’s A KNOCK AT MIDNIGHT: A Story of Hope, Justice and Freedom (Crown)
History: Isabel Wilkerson’s CASTE: The Origins of Our Discontents (Random House)
Science: James Nestor’s BREATH: The New Science of a Lost Art (Riverhead)
The view Amazon’s complete Best Books of 2020 list, click here
All lists are hand-selected by Amazon’s team of editors – first by choosing the best books of every month, and then, finally, the best books of the year.