No reason to go on about what a doozy of a year 2020 was except to say, I didn’t really have much I felt like writing about despite the fact I read 127 books. I sure hope to never read that many books in one year again! Here are a few of my favorites (in no particular order):

FICTION

– The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans

– My Grandmother Asked me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman

– Bow Grip by Ivan E. Coyote (I picked this up in Calgary in 2019 and only just read it – really great story and writing.)

– This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

– Monogamy by Sue Miller

– The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

– Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight (One of the only books I read every single word and sentence – so beautifully written. Also, quirky and seems like something I’d like to have written.)

– The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

– There There by Tommy Orange

– The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (The same author as The Night Circus …another great example of masterful story-telling.)

– The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia

– In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (In this memoir, she compares her life to fairy-tales and lists ‘tale types’ in her footnote – the format is like nothing I’ve ever read.)

– The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish

Non-FICTION

– The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

– Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

– Adventures in Opting Out: A Field Guild to Leading an Intentional Life by Cait Flanders (Another life changing book from Cait Flanders, the author of The Year of Less.)

– Bluets by Maggie Nelson

– The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman (An illustrated journal -such a fun read.)

– Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic by Ester Peral

– Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History by Dan Flores (The things we humans have done to coyotes – heartbreaking! And yet, they are so resilient.)

– Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

– The Blue Zones Solutions: Eating and Living Like the World’s Healthiest People by Dan Buettner

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