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Best Of 2020
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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