The best books of August 2020, according to Amazon's editors

Part adventure story, part love story, "Migrations" follows a woman who goes to the ends of the earth in search of herself, and what just might be the last migration of a particular bird species.

Touching on race relations, sexual expression, and economic disparity, Raven Leilani's haunting and provocative debut is about a struggling artist who becomes part of a white suburban couple's open marriage experiment.

In this heart-wrenching memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Nathasha Trethewey recounts how childhood trauma and the fierce love of her mother shaped her heart, mind, and art.

In journalist Isabel Wilkerson's eye-opening "Caste," she argues that we aren't just a racially-divided country, we're separated by castes—those unofficial but real divisions that have existed for hundreds of years and need to be acknowledged in order for things to change.

The author of the breakout hit "One Day" returns with another endearing yarn about 16-year-old Charlie Lewis who tries to turn his frown upside down by joining a theater troupe, for this Romeo is smitten with a certain Juliet.

In this page-turning thriller, a woman re-editing a mystery becomes suspicious of typos the book's meticulous author wouldn't be careless enough to make. She soon realizes these typos may, in fact, be clues to a real life murder. And she might be the next victim.

Alicia Elliott's insightful memoir argues that Native people are often seen as disposable by the primarily white culture of the US and Canada, and examines the ways in which that prejudice affects how they see themselves.

Eschewing her family's credo of only looking forward and never looking back, cultural critic Morgan Jerkins explores the displacement of Black people across America through a very personal lens.

Fans of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series will want to sink their teeth into "Midnight Sun," a recounting of Bella and Edward's epic love story from the vampire's point of view.

Virgil Wounded Horse is a local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, whose jurisdiction does not extend to felonies. This provides encouragement to criminals, something Virgil can't abide.

In the vein of her much-lauded memoir, "H Is for Hawk," Helen Macdonald returns with a magical collection of essays that uncovers the poetry and power of the natural world.

From "an astronomical Indiana Jones" (NASA) comes a compelling memoir combining Sara Seager's deeply painful story of trying to navigate becoming a widow, and her endless curiosity for discovering life beyond earth.