Published in 2020 or in English translation in 2020
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
by Cho Nam-joo
Translated by Jamie Chang
South Korea
Banality of misogyny
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/feb/19/kim-jiyoung-born-1982-cho-nam-joo-bestseller-review
Breasts and Eggs
by Meiko Kawakami
Translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd
Japan
Sisters and women’s bodies
How to Pronounce Knife
by Souvankham Thammavongsa
Canada
Stories of immigrant life, from Laos or everywhere
https://www.cbc.ca/books/how-to-pronounce-knife-1.5419553
A Burning
by Megha Majumdar
USA/India
A burning train, a facebook post, a poor Muslim girl jailed
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/27/megha-majumdar-a-burning-book-review-india-novel/
Transcendent Kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
USA/Ghana
Neuroscience meets religious devotion and addiction in an immigrant family from Ghana
https://www.vox.com/culture/21427878/transcendent-kingdom-review-yaa-gyasi
Petra
by Shaena Lambert
Canada
Reclaiming Petra Kelly from obscurity, peace eco-activism to co-founding the Green Party
A Children’s Bible
by Lydia Millet
USA
Children’s fairy tale meets climate crisis
The Girl with the Louding Voice
by Abi Daré
Nigeria/UK
Housemaid finds her voice
The Adventures of China Iron
by Gabriela Cabeza Cámara
Translated by Iona Macintyre and Fiona Mackintosh
Argentina
Feminist gaucho epic
https://thebookerprizes.com/books/adventures-china-iron-by-gabriela-cabez%C3%B3n-c%C3%A1mara
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
by Deesha Philyaw
USA
Church ladies reprieve from goodness
https://www.nationalbook.org/books/the-secret-lives-of-church-ladies/
The Yield
by Tara June Winch
Australia
Indigenous family saving land from mining company
https://www.readingwomenpodcast.com/blog/2020/04/05/qa-tara-june-winch
Fiebre Tropical
by Juli Delgado Lopera
USA/Colombia
Colombian girl comes of age and comes out in Miami, “yanquilandia”
https://www.feministpress.org/books-a-m/fiebre-tropical-a-novel