The Ten Biggest Trends From Books Published In 2020

Today was hard.

Every year, my team and I evaluate hundreds of books to select our winners for the Non-Obvious Book Awards and it’s tough. Judging books and picking winners means that many great books won’t make the list. Still – the ones that do are worth sharing.

As part of the program this year, we also did something new: identifying some big trends and themes across many books that we received. So here are some of the biggest patterns we noticed, books that we selected and our top five picks...