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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