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Here, the best fiction books of 2020.

1. The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett.
2. Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart.
3. The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel.
4. A Children’s Bible, Lydia Millet.
5. Homeland Elegies, Ayad Akhtar.
6. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, Laura van den Berg.
7. A Burning, Megha Majumdar.
8. Deacon King Kong, James McBride.

The Best Biographies of 2020

• Untamed.
• The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life.
• Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics.
• The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X (National Book Award Winner)
• Eat a Peach.
• Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir.
• Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath.

• The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen (Kindle Edition)
• Impatient Optimist: Bill Gates in His Own Words (Paperback)
• The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower, #4.5)
• (Hardcover)
• The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time, #4)
• Ender’s Game (Ender’s Saga, #1)
• A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)

Gates said he read, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.” The book, which was written in 2010, is about racism, the criminal justice system and mass incarceration.

41 Books Coming Out in 2020 That Need to Be on Your TBR Now

• Lost Hills. Image Source: Amazon.
• A Heart so Fierce and Broken. Image Source: Amazon.
• Woven in Moonlight. Image Source: Amazon.
• One of Us Is Next. Image Source: Amazon.
• Long Bright River. Image Source: Amazon.
• The Night Country.
• All the Ways We Said Goodbye.
• Followers.

All the Books Becoming Movies and TV Shows in 2020

• The Story of Doctor Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting.
• The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James.
• P.S. I Still Love You, by Jenny Han.
• Emma, by Jane Austen.
• The Call of the Wild, by Jack London.
• The Invisible Man, by H.G. Wells.
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Beatrix Potter.
• David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens.

March 2021 Upcoming Book Releases

• The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende. Nonfiction.
• Later by Stephen King. Horror.
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. Science Fiction.
• Band of Sisters by Lauren Willig.
• Sparks Like Stars by Nadia hashimi.
• The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner.
• The Rose Code by Kate Quinn.
• Spellmaker by Charlie N.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, ‘A Time for Mercy’ is expected to be released on October 13, 2020.

A Time for Mercy

Review: John Grisham and Michael Connelly, Making Their Cases in New Novels. In 2005 Michael Connelly revitalized his career by adding Mickey Haller, a.k.a. the Lincoln lawyer, to his stable of characters.

66 years (February 8, 1955)

The 10 Best John Grisham Books

• A Time to Kill. Buy on Amazon. This is the book that started it all, so any Grisham read-fest should begin right here.
• The Firm. Buy on Amazon.
• The Rainmaker. Buy on Amazon.
• The Testament. Buy on Amazon.
• The Summons. Buy on Amazon.
• The Broker. Buy on Amazon.
• Rogue Lawyer. Buy on Amazon.
• The Whistler. Buy on Amazon.

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A Time To Kill

Here are 13 other legally thrilling titles that will hold you over until the next John Grisham book.

• Criminal Justice. By Barbara Parker.
• Pardon the Ravens. By Alan Hruska.
• A Death Divided. By Clare Francis.
• Dead Man’s Thoughts. By Carolyn Wheat.
• The Hanging Judge.
• No Lesser Plea.
• Primary Justice.
• The Tenth Commandment.

After publishing 40 novels and with more than 300 million copies of his books in print, Grisham sticks to his daily writing regimen. “Write a page every day”, he advises at the top of a list of eight writing tips he published in The New York Times recently. “That’s about 200 words, or 1,000 words a week.

The Accountant may sound like a John Grisham potboiler but the reality is a muddled hybrid of pulpy vigilante thriller, half-hearted romance and comic book violence. The Accountant is top heavy with plot, backstory and flashbacks to Wolff’s childhood at the hands of his tough army dad.

John Grisham Stand-Alone Novels (In the legal Genre) These novels can be read in any order really, but I prefer the analytical option of completing them in order of publishing date.

How much is John Grisham Worth? John Grisham net worth: John Grisham is a prolific American author who has a net worth of $400 million. Every year Grisham earns $50-80 million in book/movie royalties and advances.

In his first nonfiction book, Grisham tackles the story of Ron Williamson, a former baseball player who was wrongfully convicted of murder in Ada, Okla., and came within five days of being executed before he was finally acquitted — after 11 years on death row. …

John Grisham has written an entire book every year for the past 10 to 15 years. I’ve always assumed that he was either superhuman or he worked with a team of ghostwriters. Turns out that it’s not that complicated. He has a process and the discipline to follow the process.

Amelia Island is Camino Island. The island in Camino Island by John Grisham is patterned after Amelia Island and its town of Fernandina Beach just north of Jacksonville, Florida. Its cover still looks like the view from Grisham’s boardwalk to the beach. That house is on the real life Amelia Island.

The Innocent Man is an American true crime documentary television series based on John Grisham’s 2006 book The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town.

The book tells the story of Ronald ‘Ron’ Keith Williamson of Ada, Oklahoma, a former minor league baseball player who was wrongly convicted in 1988 of the rape and murder of Debra Sue Carter in Ada and was sentenced to death.

Tommy Ward and Carl Fontenot were convicted in the 1984 kidnapping and killing of Denice Haraway in Ada. In December, a district judge ruled there was enough evidence to overturn Ward’s conviction and ordered him to be immediately released.

Karl Fontenot was released from prison in 2019 after 35 years behind bars for the 1984 murder of Denice Harraway in Ada.

Ward and a co-defendant, Karl Fontenot, were convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the kidnapping and killing of Donna Denice Haraway in 1984, an Ada convenience store clerk. As for Karl Fontenot, a judge threw out his case and he was released in 2019.