Monday, August 3, 2020

Melinda's Top Ten Picks from My 2020 Reading List

2020 - A year to remember.  A year for reading and then more reading.  The following list is in alphabetical order by author and includes novels, non-fiction, short stories and poetry:


1.  Jericho Brown's Pulitzer Prize winning Poetry collection - THE TRADITION

2.  Susan Choi's novel TRUST EXERCISE - Coming of age in a UK school for the arts Nat'l Book
        Award Winner 2019

3.  Louise Erdrich's (Nat'l Bk Award Winner) novel THE NIGHTWATCHMAN

4.  Bernadine Evaristo's novel GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER - Man Booker Prize 2019

5.  Norman Lear's auto-biography EVEN THIS I GET to EXPERIENCE

6.  Andrea Levy's novel (b UK 1956-2019) THE LONG SONG - Whitbread Break of the Year 2004 -
         Slavery History in Jamaica

7.  Beth Macy's Non-Fiction DOPE SICK - The Opioid Epidemic - Shortlisted Andrew Carnegie
         Medal for Excellence

8.  Jenny Offill's novel WEATHER - Quirky philosophical, theological quandaries

9.  Kiley Reid's novel SUCH a FUN AGE - Contemporary take on systemic racism

10. Sally Rooney's (b Ireland 1991) novel CONVERSATIONS with FRIENDS

Honorable Mention:

1.  Karen Russell's Short Story Collection ORANGE WORLD - Sci-fi, Horror

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