My Favorite Books of 2020

Special Links:
-Bookshop.org (US) full favorites page: https://bookshop.org/lists/favorite-books-of-2020-04510d7b-2cae-47ec-9dd7-2eced9fae56b
-Thoughts on earlier Realm of the Elderings Books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI2ws3oZYCc
-Longer discussions of Border and Bloodlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESfSvw2YhRk
-Excerpt from Blue Nights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SALISp7a7ZQ
-Full written review of The Masochist: https://openlettersreview.com/posts/the-masochist-by-katia-perat?rq=the%20masochist

Books Mentioned:
-Pericles by William Shakespeare
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/9780743273299
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Pericles-by-William-Shakespeare-Roger-Warren/9780199536832?a_aid=insertlitpun
-Wasted Morning by Gabriela Adameșteanu (translated from Romanian by Patrick Camiller)
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/9780810126374
-When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/9780062353788
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/When-He-Was-Wicked-by-Julia-Quinn-author/9780349429472?a_aid=insertlitpun
-What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/9780593191415
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/What-Are-You-Going-Through-by-Sigrid-Nunez-author/9780349013664?a_aid=insertlitpun
-How I Came to Know Fish by Ota Pavel (translated from Czech by Jindriska Badal and Robert McDowell)
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/How-I-Came-to-Know-Fish-by-Ota-Pavel/9780141192833?a_aid=insertlitpun
-Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/9780553392913
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Fools-Assassin-by-Robin-Hobb-author/9780007444205?a_aid=insertlitpun
-Passing by Nella Larsen
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/9780142437278
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Passing-by-Nella-Larsen-author/9780241472712?a_aid=insertlitpun
-Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/9781555977863
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Border-by-Kapka-Kassabova-author/9781783783205?a_aid=insertlitpun
-Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/9780465031474
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Bloodlands-by-Timothy-Snyder/9780099551799?a_aid=insertlitpun
-The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/9780141441269
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Portrait-of-a-Lady-by-Henry-James/9780141199122?a_aid=insertlitpun
-Blue Nights by Joan Didion
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/9780307387387
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Blue-Nights-by-Joan-Didion/9780007432905?a_aid=insertlitpun
-The Masochist by Katja Perat (translated from Slovenian by Michael Biggins)
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/9781912545179
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Masochist-by-Katja-Perat-Michael-Biggins-translator/9781912545179?a_aid=insertlitpun
-The Iliad by Homer (translated from Ancient Greek by Robert Fagles)
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/9780140275360
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Iliad-by-Homer-Robert-Fagles-Bernard-Knox/9780140445923?a_aid=insertlitpun
-The Door by Magda Szabó (translated from Hungarian by Len Rix)
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/9781590177716
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Door-by-Magda-Szab-Len-Rix-translator/9781784872403?a_aid=insertlitpun
-Lila by Marilynne Robinson
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/9781250784032
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Lila-by-Marilynne-Robinson-author/9781844088829?a_aid=insertlitpun

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