2020 has been a year like no other (at least we hope it is like no other…)
Here are some of the books that our staff — from Curlew to Mattawa and from Leavenworth to Warden — are recommending as some of the best of 2020. Happy Reading!
Fiction
Anxious People 
by Fredrik Backman
Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
The Midnight Library by Matthew Haig
Writer’s and Lovers by Lily King
The Mercies 
by Kiran Miller Hargrave
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
A Walk Along the Beach by Debbie Macomber
Just Like You by Nick Hornby
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Vanishing Half by Britt Bennet
Monogamy by Sue Miller
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Horror
Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Devolution by Max Brooks
Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Mystery/Thriller
Savage Son
by Jack Carr
The Janes by Louisa Luna
All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
SciFi/Fantasy
House of Earth and Blood: A Crescent City Novel
by Sarah J. Maas
The Last Emperox by John Scalzi
The Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty
Network Effect by Martha Wells
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Biography/Memoir
Greenlights
by Matthew McConaughey
Sigh,Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc Tran
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller
Nonfiction
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Wong
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jenkins
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi
Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Young Adult
Among the Beasts and the Briars
by Ashley Poston
Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
Parachutes by Kelly Yang
Skyhunter by Marie Lu
Juvenile Fiction
Soaked by Abi Cushman
English