Top Ten Tuesday: Favorite books read in 2020
Honestly, this list is just a list of books I liked. There were few standouts this year except Lonesome Dove, which dominated the whole year after my husband and I both read it and then watched the mini-series, and The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse, which is by far my favorite above all books this year. All other books I liked enough to recommend. It was such a strange year, as you all know, and my reading choices reflected this strangeness. As you see, only five novels made my top seventeen books, normally my list would be populated with them.
1. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy (Illustrated, inspirational)
2. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah (Memoir; audiobook)
3. Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder (Graphic memoir)
4. Close to Birds: An intimate Look at Our Fine Feathered Friends by Mats Ottosson (Photography)
5. Stamped by Jason Reynolds (YA, black history, anti-racism, e-book)
6. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtrey (Western novel)
7. The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman (YA novel, #2 in The Book of Dust series; audiobook)
8. Letters of Note compiled by Shaun Usher (Letters and correspondence)
9. Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine (Poetry and essays, e-book)
10. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Revised history novel, magical realism)
11. Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King (Thriller/mystery novel, audiobook)
12. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Literary fiction, audiobook)
13. Playlist: Rebels and Revolutionaries of Sound by James Rhodes (Music and musicians)
14. How We Got to the Moon by John Rocco (Illustrated, history)
15. The Honeybee by Candace Fleming (Children's nonfiction)
16. The Velocity of Being by Maria Popova (Letters to young readers in the future)
17. Some Writer: The Story of E.B. White by Melissa Sweet (Junior Biography, illustrated)
-Anne
