`Tis the season… for Best Of lists! We’ll be posting a separate blog post for our collective favorite reads of the year later, but for now we have Sara, Jenia, and Travis sharing their favorites with you here.
To get the standard disclaimers out of the way, these are simply the books we read during 2020 that we enjoyed the most. We don’t pretend this list is objective or comprehensive in any way. After all, what list is?
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What We’re Reading:
Travis: We Could Be Heroes by Mike Chen
Jenia: The Trojan War Museum: and Other Stories by Ayse Papatya Bucak
Sara: A Dance with Fate by Juliet Marillier
Our Favorite Books of 2020:
Sara
- Stariel by AJ Lancaster
- Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
- Jade City by Fonda Lee
- The Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty
Travis
- The Diviners by Libba Bray
- Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott
- The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
- The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis
Jenia
- The Trojan War Will Not Take Place by Jean Giraudoux
- Debt: The First Five Thousand Years by David Graeber; Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght; An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn
- Turning Darkness Into Light by Marie Brennan
- Zone by Mathias Énard
- Ten Thousand Stitches by Olivia Atwater
Other Things Mentioned:
- The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick
- Black Wolves by Kate Elliott
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
- Superstardrifter Blog
- The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards
Transcript:
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