Heart Bones
by Colleen Hoover
★ Top 25 book of 2020 · #16 on Best Books of 2020
Beyah, who has built her future alone, must spend a summer on a Texas peninsula with the father she barely knows. A neighbor named Samson, from a very different background, tempts her into a fling that may go deeper.
Best for: Readers who like emotional summer romances about opposites drawn together by sadness
Heart Bones is #16 on BookWard's Best Books of 2020, out of 65 2020 books that cleared our data bar.
What Heart Bones is about
Beyah has built her life alone. Her parents gave her little beyond life itself and a name she would rather leave behind, and she is only two months away from the future she has worked toward. Then an unexpected death leaves her with nowhere to stay, and she has to spend the summer on a Texas peninsula with a father she barely knows.
Her plan is simple: keep her head down and wait for the summer to pass. Her neighbor Samson complicates that. He grew up with money and ease, she grew up with poverty and neglect, yet both are drawn to sad things, and that draws them together. They agree to keep things light, a fling in the shallow end. Beyah, though, has reason to suspect the water is rougher than it looks. A summer romance about class, family and the pull of the past.
Heart Bones on the Best Books of 2020
Heart Bones came out in 2020. Of the 65 books first published in 2020 that met BookWard's data bar, it ranks #16 on our Best Books of 2020 list.
Why it made the list: 551 readers have shelved it on Open Library. 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.
Nearby on the 2020 list
- The Happiest Man on Earth Eddie Jaku, #14
- Cat Kid Comic Club Dav Pilkey, #15
- Beach Read Emily Henry, #17
- My Dark Vanessa Kate Elizabeth Russell, #18
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The numbers behind it
- Readers: 506 want to read it, 19 are reading it now and 26 have read it, according to Open Library.
| Signal | This book (0 to 100) | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | 82 | 55% |
| Reader love | 5 | 25% |
| Being read right now | 80 | 20% |
Questions about Heart Bones
When was Heart Bones published?
Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover was first published in 2020.
Was Heart Bones one of the best books of 2020?
Heart Bones is #16 on BookWard's Best Books of 2020, out of 65 2020 books that cleared our data bar. 551 readers have shelved it on Open Library.
Why is Heart Bones on the Best Books of 2020 list?
551 readers have shelved it on Open Library.
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
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How we know
This page uses public data: Open Library reader counts and ratings, and Wikipedia page views for recent years. The description is paraphrased from real source text. Rankings reflect reading interest, not quality or sales, and can be affected by data gaps. Lists update monthly.
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