Top Five Books of 2020

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Add your favorite books read in 2020. Define favorite however you wish. Books don't need to be a 2020 pub date, just ones you read this year. You can see the LT Staffer picks at the LT Blog: https://blog.librarything.com/main/2020/12/top-5-books-2020/ And participate in the conversation on Talk: https://www.librarything.com/topic/327305
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Hamnet
av Maggie O'Farrell
4,352 medlemmar
228 recensioner
4.2
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Boand: A simply stunning and well paced book which reaches a wonderful crescendo at the very last moment! Words fail me - just read this book!!!
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Shuggie Bain
av Douglas Stuart
2,459 medlemmar
126 recensioner
4.2
Global rankning 12
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summonedbyfells : A series of episodic events 'observational fiction' lacking much of a purpose, I had hoped that James Kelman would have had the last word on this depressing genre, sorry.
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Girl, Woman, Other
av Bernardine Evaristo
3,168 medlemmar
132 recensioner
4.2
Global rankning 16
12 Members
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celerydog: game-changing book because of characterisation and inter-linking of their stories
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You Will Be Safe Here
av Damian Barr
130 medlemmar
5 recensioner
½ 3.6
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The Nickel Boys
av Colson Whitehead
4,035 medlemmar
214 recensioner
½ 4.3
Global rankning 106
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