The Testaments by Margaret Atwood makes Amazon's best books of the year list

Amazon has revealed their top 20 books of the year. 

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood is the only Canadian book on the online retailer's list.

The Testaments, which is a sequel to Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, broke Canadian sales records after it was published in Sept. 2019. It also was a co-winner of this year's Booker Prize.

The Testaments is set 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale and includes the "explosive testaments" of three women. The book answers questions on the inner-workings of Gilead, the oppressive dystopia where Offred, the novel's original narrator, was stripped of her freedoms and forced to be a handmaid for powerful men.

• Why Margaret Atwood waited more than 30 years to write The Testaments

Atwood, 80, has been publishing poetry, fiction and nonfiction since the 1960s. Her acclaimed books include The Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace, Oryx and Crake and The Edible Woman. She has won several awards for her work including the Governor General's Literary Award, the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Man Booker Prize. 

Other fiction on the list include The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, Quichotte by Salman Rushdie and The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

The Nickel Boys is based on a real reform school in Florida that operated for over a century. It follows a young black boy named Elwood Curtis who is sent to live at a juvenile reformatory, where young boys are subject to physical and sexual abuse.

• Colson Whitehead on fighting through anger to write The Nickel Boys

Rushdie's latest, Quichotte, is a television addict looking for romance. His obsessions manifest in an imaginary son named Sancho, with whom he embarks on a cross-country road trip to meet a celebrity he's fallen in love with. 

• Salman Rushdie's journey across the U.S.

Nonfiction that made the list includes Three Women by Lisa Taddeo and George Takei's comic They Called Us Enemy.

For Three Women, journalist Taddeo spent eight years travelling across the U.S., hearing the stories of ordinary women from a variety of backgrounds and learning about their complicated perspectives on desire.

• Passion and pain: Why this writer studied women's most intimate desires

They Called Us Enemy is an illustrated account of his experiences growing up in camps where Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians were interned by their governments in World War II. 

• George Takei on using art to shed light on a chapter of American and Canadian history

The complete top 20 is:

• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• Wild Game by Adrienne Brodeur
• Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
• Super Pumped by Mike Isaac
• City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott, illustrated by Harmony Becker
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
• The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
• Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
• Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
• The World that We Knew by Alice Hoffman
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
• I'll Never See the World Again by Ahmet Altan, translated by Yasemin Congar
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
• Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
• Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl by Jeannie Vanasco

You can see the list on Amazon's website.