TOP BOOKS OF 2020 + READING YEAR REFLECTION (+ MINI UPDATE!) | sunbeamsjess

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TOP 2020 BOOKS BLOG POST (contains links to original reviews): https://www.sunbeamsjess.com/blog/2021/1/20/top-books-of-2020-reading-year-reflection
TOP 2020 BOOKS BOOKSHOP.ORG LIST (affiliate links): https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/top-2020-books

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If you’d like to skip my update…
06:15 Reflecting on my Reading Year + Goals for 2021
11:58 The Best of the Best
23:40 The Best of the Best but for Other Reasons
32:45 For the Sheer Achievement/Fascinating, Layered and Ambitious/The Big Ideas
36:33 The Best of the Rest
42:20 Honourable Mentions

The Cromwell Trilogy by Hilary Mantel
The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
Meeting the Universe Halfway by Karen Barad
The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty
Lent by Jo Walton
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Underland by Robert Macfarlane
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
The Book of Kane and Margaret by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Other Wind by Ursula Le Guin
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman
The Way by Swann’s by Marcel Proust
Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward
Native Son by Richard Wright
White is For Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay

Honourable Mentions:
Rosewater by Tade Thompson
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (pronounced Coates’ name wrong again for which I apologise!!)
That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Early Warning by Jane Smiley
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

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