The Best of 2020

Our favorites of the year, are finally here!

 

 

 

Lisa's Picks

The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

The Cold MIllions by Jess Walter

 

Heather's Pick:

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

 

Courtney's Picks:

Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainer Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks

Spirit Run: A 6,000 Mile MArathon Through North America's Stolen Land  by Noe Alvarez

 

Dawn's Picks:

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

We Will Live in This Forest Again by Gianna Marino

The Lost Spells by Robert MacFarlane

 

Elizabeth's Pick:

Run Me to Earth by Paul Yoon

 

Mia's Pick:

Flying Over Water by N H Senzai

 

Claudine's Pick:

Do Nothing: How to Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee

 

Maddie's Picks:

The Questioneers Series by Andrea Beaty

 

Kendra's Picks:

The Girl and the Goodess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom by Nikita Gill

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

 

Jeremy's Pick:

Vintage Skiing: Nostaglic Images From the Golden Age of Skiing by Ray Atkeson

 

Nancy's Picks:

Zen Wisdom for the Anxious: Simple Advice From a Zen Buddhist Monk by Shinsuke Hosokawa

Mondern Comfort Food: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten

 

Karen's Picks:

Anxious People by Fredik Backman

Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson

 

We also love:

Untamed by Glennon Doyle

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi

Coo by Kaela Noel

A Good Neighborhood by Therese Abbe Fowler

A Burning by Megha Majumdar

Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia

Glory: Magical Visions of Black Beauty by Kahran and Regis Bethencourt

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

Sad Janet by Lucie Britsch

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

When Winter Comes: Discovering Wildlife in Our Snowy Woods by Aimee M. Bissonette

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

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