Amazon Shares Its List of the Top 20 Books of the Year — Have You Read Them All?

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys is a deeply moving story about two young men, Elwood and Turner, who are forced to attend a hellish reform school called the Nickel Academy in Jim Crow-era Florida. While Elwood struggles to maintain his ideals despite the abusive and grotesque surroundings of the school, Turner is driven further into skepticism and scheming. Both boys come to find that one decision can change everything.