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From the Boswellians' top 5 picks for 2020. Want our full list of 2020 picks? Check them out right here!

 

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Leave the World Behind: A Read with Jenna Pick By Rumaan Alam Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062667632
Availability: Not in stock at Boswell. Available to order.
Published: Ecco - October 6th, 2020

Top 5 Pick: Kay.
National Book Award Finalist! A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together during a weekend on Long Island as everything goes terribly wrong.


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The Knockout Queen: A novel By Rufi Thorpe Cover Image
$26.95
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ISBN: 9780525656784
Published: Knopf - April 28th, 2020

Top 5 Pick: Chris & Ogi.
A darkly comic novel of friendship and violence between a gothy gay boy and sports star girl in the costal suburbs of Los Angeles. A heartbreaking stunner!


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Hench: A Novel By Natalie Zina Walschots Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062978578
Availability: Not in stock at Boswell. Available to order.
Published: William Morrow - September 22nd, 2020

Top 5 Pick: Margaret & Jen
An imaginative novel that turns superhero stories on their heads when one supervillian's lowly underling finds her greatest superpower might be a properly executed spreadsheet.


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Homeland Elegies: A Novel By Ayad Akhtar Cover Image
$28.00
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ISBN: 9780316496421
Published: Little, Brown and Company - September 15th, 2020

Top 5 Pick: Chris
A blend of memoir and fiction examines what it means to be American for the Pulitzer Prize-winning son of Pakistani immigrants.


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Mexican Gothic By Silvia Moreno-Garcia Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9780525620785
Availability: Not in stock at Boswell. Available to order.
Published: Del Rey - June 30th, 2020

Top 5 Pick: Jen
A classic gothic suspense novel, reimagined in 1950s Mexico, where a brave socialite is drawn to the dangerous secrets of an isolated mansion.


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Murder at the Mena House (A Jane Wunderly Mystery #1) By Erica Ruth Neubauer Cover Image
$26.00
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ISBN: 9781496725851
Published: Kensington - March 31st, 2020

Milwaukee author's delightful mystery set in the heart of Cairo in the aftermath of WWI, at a luxury resort where the cocktails flow and murder may be afoot.


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The Shadows: A Novel By Alex North Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250318039
Availability: Not in stock at Boswell. Available to order.
Published: Celadon Books - July 7th, 2020

Top 5 PickL Ogi
Stranger Things meets Stephen King in this haunting supernatural thriller about the sacrifices parents make for their children and the past that's never quite done with us.


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Oona Out of Order: A Novel By Margarita Montimore Cover Image
$26.99
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ISBN: 9781250236609
Published: Flatiron Books - February 25th, 2020

Top 5 Pick: Kay & Jenny
A unique, fun, thought-provoking book about a woman learning to live life to the fullest when her years become scrambled - each New Years Day she wakes up to a different year in her life, all out of order!


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The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) By Brit Bennett Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525536291
Availability: Not in stock at Boswell. Available to order.
Published: Riverhead Books - June 2nd, 2020

Top 5 Pick: Rachel & Kira
The author of The Mothers proves she's here to stay with a novel about twins who choose to live in two different worlds - one black and one white.