Most Popular Mainstream Books of the 2020s

Discover popular Mainstream books from the 2020s, with reader ratings and new favorites to explore.

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Cree: The Rhys Davies Short Story Award Anthology

Elaine Canning

Weird Fiction · Anthology · Mainstream

2022

The Big Blind

Lavie Tidhar

Mainstream

April 6, 2021

Arch of Bone

Jane Yolen

Young Adult · Adventure · Historical Fiction · Mainstream

November 9, 2021

Creatures of Passage

Morowa Yejidé

Horror · Magical Realism · Mainstream

March 16, 2021

Life Among the Terranauts

Caitlin Horrocks

Science Fiction · Short Stories · Mainstream

January 12, 2021

Eibonvale Chapbook Line #14

La Ronde

Colin Fisher

Fantasy · Mainstream

May 2020

Eibonvale Chapbook Line

Invisible Influences

Jason E. Rolfe

Fantasy · Mainstream

August 1, 2020

The Betrayals

Bridget Collins

Fantasy · Mainstream

November 12, 2020

The Puppet-Play of Doctor Gall

Jason E. Rolfe

Fantasy · Mainstream

September 2020

Cyber Smut: Short Stories and Poetry

various authors (Guts Publishing)

Science Fiction · Short Stories · Mainstream · Non-fiction

September 2020

Leave the World Behind

Rumaan Alam

Science Fiction · Mainstream

October 6, 2020

Bright and Dangerous Objects

Anneliese Mackintosh

Science Fiction · Mainstream

October 2020

We Ride Upon Sticks

Quan Barry

Fantasy · Mainstream

March 2020

Costumes of the Living

Gaurav Monga

Fantasy · Mainstream

September 15, 2020

The Mercies

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Fantasy · Historical Fiction · Mainstream

February 2020

Rebel Spy

Veronica Rossi

Young Adult · Historical Fiction · Mainstream

June 23, 2020

Blackwood

Michael Farris Smith

Mainstream · Mystery

March 3, 2020