Credence
by Penelope Douglas
★ Top 10 book of 2020 · #7 on Best Books of 2020
Tiernan de Haas, nearly eighteen, loses her wealthy parents and is placed in the care of a relative in the Colorado mountains, where his two sons live too. As she learns to survive in the remote woods, the lines between them blur.
Best for: Romance readers drawn to remote cabin settings and intense, boundary-crossing relationships
Credence is #7 on BookWard's Best Books of 2020, out of 65 2020 books that cleared our data bar.
What Credence is about
Tiernan de Haas has money, a famous family and almost no one who ever cared where she was. Her father was a film producer and her mother a starlet, and she was shipped off to boarding schools from an early age. When both parents die without warning, she is left with a single relative, her father's stepbrother Jake Van der Berg.
Two months before her eighteenth birthday, she moves in with him and his sons, Noah and Kaleb, deep in the Colorado mountains, far from everything she knew. The men show her how to work, and how to stay alive, in the woods. Little by little she finds a place among them, even as the usual boundaries start to loosen. It is aimed at adult readers who like intense, secluded stories.
Credence on the Best Books of 2020
Credence came out in 2020. Of the 65 books first published in 2020 that met BookWard's data bar, it ranks #7 on our Best Books of 2020 list.
Why it made the list: 1,533 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4.3 out of 5 (23 ratings); 78 are reading it right now. The list ranks each year’s books on how many readers have picked them up, how highly readers rate them, and how many are reading them right now.
It earns Being read right now.
Nearby on the 2020 list
- Heartstopper, Volume 3 Alice Oseman, #5
- The Midnight Library Matt Haig, #6
- Think Like a Monk Jay Shetty, #8
- The Tower of Nero Rick Riordan, #9
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The numbers behind it
- Readers: 1,420 want to read it, 78 are reading it now and 35 have read it, according to Open Library.
- Ratings: 4.3 out of 5 from 23 Open Library ratings.
| Signal | This book (0 to 100) | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | 91 | 55% |
| Reader love | 72 | 25% |
| Being read right now | 95 | 20% |
Questions about Credence
When was Credence published?
Credence by Penelope Douglas was first published in 2020.
Was Credence one of the best books of 2020?
Credence is #7 on BookWard's Best Books of 2020, out of 65 2020 books that cleared our data bar. 1,533 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4.3 out of 5 (23 ratings); 78 are reading it right now.
Why is Credence on the Best Books of 2020 list?
1,533 readers have shelved it on Open Library; readers rate it 4.3 out of 5 (23 ratings); 78 are reading it right now.
More of the best books of 2020
- Good Girl, Bad Blood Holly Jackson, #1
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Suzanne Collins, #2
- The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel, #3
- The Inheritance Games Jennifer Lynn Barnes, #4
- Heartstopper, Volume 3 Alice Oseman, #5
- The Midnight Library Matt Haig, #6
See the full Best Books of 2020, the Top 100, or new books on Rising.
How we know
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