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Best Books of 2020

As much of a roller coaster as 2020 was, there was no stopping the publishing of great books. The following are the ones that I would definitely recommend. This link on Bookshop will give you purchase links for these books. Without further ado, in no particular order:


Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir

Memorial by Bryan Washington

Network Effect by Martha Wells

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrel

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel 

The Awkward Black Man by Walter Mosley

Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark

Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth

A Peculiar Peril by Jeff VanderMeer

Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay

Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley