If You Haven't Read These Crazy-Popular Books in 2020, Where Have You Been?

Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall series has been a steady presence on bookshelves (and on TV, and on Broadway) for some time now. The final book, The Mirror and the Light, brings Thomas Cromwell's story to a close. After the death of Anne Boleyn, Cromwell seems to have won, and he allies himself with the newly empowered Jane Seymour and her family. Still, in the court of the increasingly cruel and paranoid Henry VIII, no one can stay a favorite for long.