The 33 Bestselling Adult Fiction Books for 2020

This page highlights 33 books, published in 2020, that made our Bestsellers List.

Note: We carry over bestseller status for out of print versions of books to new editions, so the punlication year may not reflect the year the book was orignally published.

24 Time 2020 Bestseller

Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

by Alain Locke and Introduction by Troy Johnson

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11 Time 2020 Bestseller

The Willie Lynch Letter And the Making of A Slave

by Willie Lynch

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6 Time 2020 Bestseller

The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

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6 Time 2020 Bestseller

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

by Deesha Philyaw

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5 Time 2020 Bestseller

When No One Is Watching

by Alyssa Cole

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5 Time 2020 Bestseller

Deacon King Kong

by James McBride

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4 Time 2020 Bestseller

Black States of America

by d. E. Rogers

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4 Time 2020 Bestseller

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West (editor)

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3 Time 2020 Bestseller

Black Gangster

by Donald Goines

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3 Time 2020 Bestseller

Speaking of Summer

by Kalisha Buckhanon

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3 Time 2020 Bestseller

His Only Wife

by Peace Adzo Medie

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3 Time 2020 Bestseller

It’s Not All Downhill from Here

by Terry McMillan

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2 Time 2020 Bestseller

Glorious

by Bernice L. McFadden

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2 Time 2020 Bestseller

They Tell Me Of A Home

by Daniel Black

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2 Time 2020 Bestseller

Step Into a World

by Kevin Powell

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2 Time 2020 Bestseller

Blacktop Wasteland

by S. A. Cosby

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2 Time 2020 Bestseller

B-More Careful

by Shannon Holmes

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2 Time 2020 Bestseller

The Awkward Black Man

by Walter Mosley

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1 Time 2020 Bestseller

On the Corner of Hope and Main

by Beverly Jenkins

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1 Time 2020 Bestseller

Real Life

by Brandon Taylor

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1 Time 2020 Bestseller

Romance in Marseille

by Claude McKay

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1 Time 2020 Bestseller

Confessions in B-Flat

by Donna Hill

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1 Time 2020 Bestseller

The Other Sister

by Donna Hill

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1 Time 2020 Bestseller

What A Woman’s Gotta Do

by Evelyn Coleman

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1 Time 2020 Bestseller

Hood Rat

by K’wan

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1 Time 2020 Bestseller

Real Men Knit

by K.M. Jackson

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1 Time 2020 Bestseller

Here and Now

by Kimberla Lawson Roby

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1 Time 2020 Bestseller

The Missing American

by Kwei Quartey

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1 Time 2020 Bestseller

Bourbon Street

by Leonce Gaiter

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1 Time 2020 Bestseller

The Old Drift

by Namwali Serpell

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1 Time 2020 Bestseller

Wild Seed (Patternist #1)

by Octavia Butler

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1 Time 2020 Bestseller

The Stolen Daughter

by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

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1 Time 2020 Bestseller

Transcendent Kingdom

by Yaa Gyasi

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