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Time's must-read books of 2020:
https://time.com/collection/must-read-books-2020/
Video of my guided tour of the library:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vxNkxUQ8MUOY&t32s
The 10 best books of 2020 (according to Publisher's Weekly):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?veXFoz9BO1no
Books discussed and purchase links:
Anne Enright actress
https://tidd.ly/2KiE1Fq
Deirdre Mask's address book
https://tidd.ly/3pGvi06
African-American poetry by Kevin Young
https://tidd.ly/3kEmAM1
The Afterlife by Julia Alvarez
https://tidd.ly/2UA4AI1
Agency by William Gibson
https://tidd.ly/2HdpPfK
Start over with Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
https://tidd.ly/2Kj7M99
Great friendship by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
https://tidd.ly/2UAYx62
The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson
https://tidd.ly/3glqmaW
Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs
https://tidd.ly/3lHPpbD
Brown album by Porochista Khakpour
A fire by Megha Majumdar
https://tidd.ly/35EuRv5
I Can't Even by Anne Helen Petersen
https://tidd.ly/2Kh8ovY
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
https://tidd.ly/2TnUB82
A Bible for children by Lydia Millet
https://tidd.ly/3ffPVLK
The City We Became by NK Jemisin
https://tidd.ly/3kDkKLh
Cleaned by Garth Greenwell
https://tidd.ly/2UCB7gs
Conditional Citizens by Laila Lalami
https://tidd.ly/3f56HNu
Twisted Hallelujah by Kelli Jo Ford
Cultural Warlords by Talia Lavin
Distracted Days by Alexandra Chang
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
The Dead Rise Again by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayétu Moore
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
The End of White Politics by Zerlina Maxwell
The Tangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
Enter the Aardvark by Jessica Anthony
Followers by Megan Angelo
A Girl is a Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
The Golden Gates by Conor Dougherty
To have and to be had by Eula Biss
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
His only wife by Peace Adzo Medie
Hitler by Volker Ullrich
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
Elegies of the Fatherland by Ayad Akhtar
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa
I don't want to die poor by Michael Arceneaux
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears by Laura van den Berg
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
Inner Chinatown by Charles Yu
Intimations by Zadie Smith
Is rape a crime? by Michelle Bowdler
Jack by Marilynne Robinson
Just Us by Claudia Rankine
Kim Jiyoung, born in 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo
Leaving the world behind by Rumaan Alam
Let's Never Talk About It Again by Sara Faith Alterman
Chandelier by Raven Leilani
The lying lives of adults by Elena Ferrante
Memorial by Bryan Washington
Memorial walk by Natasha Trethewey
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
Nerve by Eva Holland
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Nights When Nothing Happened by Simon Han
Notes on a Silence by Lacy Crawford
Obituary of Victoria Chang
Oligarchy by Scarlett Thomas
A powerful and irresistible tide by Jia Lynn Yang
Ones to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Open Book by Jessica Simpson
Group of two by Jasmine Guillory
The Pink Line by Mark Gevisser
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Postcolonial love poem by Natalie Diaz
The Purpose of Power by Alicia Garza
Reaganland by Rick Perlstein
Memories of my non-existence by Rebecca Solnit
Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon
A Texas Saint by Edmund White
Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan
It Comes Naturally by Sarah Smarsh
Shuggie Bath by Douglas Stuart
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
The Sword and the Shield by Peniel E. Joseph
Being a Man by Nicole Krauss
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
Conversation Topics by Miranda Popkey
Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Unfree Speech by Joshua Wong
Avant-garde by Martha S. Jones
The missing half of Brit Bennett
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
Wandering in Strange Lands by Morgan Jerkins
Want by Lynn Steger Strong
We Ride on Sticks by Quan Barry
Weather by Jenny Offill
Where are the Wild Ladies by Aoko Matsuda
Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui
Wow, no thanks. by Samantha Irby
You'll Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe
150 Insights into the Beatles by Craig Brown
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