- Associated Press - Thursday, July 2, 2020

1. “The Room Where It Happened” by John Bolton (Simon & Schuster)

2. “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo (Beacon Press)

3. “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi (One World)



4. “Stamped From the Beginning” by Ibram X. Kendi (Bold Type Books)

5. “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic)

6. “28 Summers” by Elin Hilderbrand (Little, Brown)

7. “The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett (Riverhead)

8. “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

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9. “Stamped” by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

10. “Between The World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau)

11. “So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo (Seal Press)

12. “Untamed” by Glennon Doyle (The Dial Press)

13. “Dream Big” by Bob Goff (Thomas Nelson)

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14. “The Summer House” by James Patterson and Brendan DuBois (Little, Brown)

15. “ Last Flight” by Julie Clark (Sourcebooks Landmark)

16. “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson (Spiegel & Grau)

17. “Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng (Penguin Press)

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18. “Countdown 1945” by Chris Wallace with Mitch Weiss (Simon & Schuster)

19. “The Guest List” by Lucy Foley (William Morrow)

20. “The Color of Law” by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)

21. “Camino Winds” by John Grisham (Doubleday)

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22. “Summer at Lake Haven” by RaeAnne Thayne (Harlequin HQN)

23. “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah (Spiegel & Grau)

24. “1984” by George Orwell (Signet Classic)

25. “Always Eat After 7 PM” by Joel Marion (BenBella)

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