Amazon’s best-selling books 2020, reviewed: ‘Normal People, ‘The Silent Patient’ and more
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Amazon’s best-selling books 2020, reviewed: ‘Normal People, ‘The Silent Patient’ and more

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping experts Sign up for our free IndyBest email Sign up for our free IndyBest email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ by Bernardine Evaristo, published by Penguin Books: £7.37, Amazon Author Bernardine Evaristo was awarded winner of the Booker Prize 2019 and shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 for her book Girl, Woman, Other which follows the lives of 12 black, British, cisgender and gender-queer women. Buy now ‘Normal People’ by Sally Rooney, published by Faber & Faber: £4.50, Amazon As the winner of multiple awards, Sally Rooney’s Normal People is one of the most popular titles in fiction, with accolades including the British Book Awards, the Costa novel award and Waterstones Book of the Year. Buy now ‘The Silent Patient’ by Alex Michaelides, published by Orion: £5.99, Amazon Appearing in our best books of 2020, this is Alex Michaelides’s debut novel, who wrote the story of the protagonist Alicia Berenson while he was studying a postgraduate course in psychotherapy and working in a secure psychiatric unit. Our reviewer described it as “a smart, sophisticated, psychological thriller.” Buy now 'The Flatshare’ by Beth O'Leary, published by Quercus: £6.86, Amazon If you like feel-good fiction, you’ll love Beth O’Leary’s debut novel, as we did in our review of the best summer books.

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