What a year 2020 has been! The silver lining (of the horrors of COVID and the ugly polarization of national politics and the sadness of isolation from family and community) has been reading. What a lot of good books have been published into these challenging times. These are my favorite reads (although it's certainly possible I've forgotten and left off a few stellar ones) to share for your reading pleasure.
Leave the World Behind, by Rumaan Alam
The Gringa, by Andrew Altschul
The Sun Collective, by Charles Baxter
The Paris Affair, by Susanne Dunlap
Burn Down This World, by Tina Egnoski
What You Have Heard is True, by Carolyn Forche
Accidentals, by Susan M Gaines
Into the Forest, by Jean Hegland
Tea by the Sea, by Donna Hemans
Daughters of the Stone, by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
Glorious Boy, by Aimee Liu
Migrations, by Charlotte McConaghy
The Yellow Bird Sings, by Jennifer Rosner
Unseen City, by Amy Shearn
Subduction, by Kristen Milares Young