20 Books from 2020
Here are a few of the titles that got me through 2020. Thank you to Oakland Public Library for curbside pickup, East Bay Booksellers for creative (and safe!) ways to buy books over the last ten months, the ChaBoBo (aka "The Book Box"), recommendations from friends, Hut Landon's newsletter, and the old stand-by favorites on my shelves.
Bring it on, 2021, if I could make it through this year, I think I can make it through anything.
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Featured Favorites
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Beloved by Toni Morrison
Knucklehead by Adam Smyer
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
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Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
Mother Mother by Jessica O'Dwyer
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
My Name is Not Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Writing is My Drink by Theo Nelson
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Slavery's Descendants edited by Dionne Ford and Jill Strauss
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How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Adèle by Leila Slimani
The Book of V. by Anna Solomon
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
You Can Keep That To Yourself by Adam Smyer
Home Baked by Alia Volz
Nutcracker and Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffmann and
The Tale of the Nutcracker by Alexandre Dumas
IMG DESCR: illustration of corps de ballet dancers in tutus with giant Nutcracker on side in foreground
illustration credit: Be Boggs
When July came and went and there was no audition notice from my daughter’s ballet school, no Doodle poll to survey my rehearsal availability, and no newsletter from ballet companies offering subscriber discounts, I knew. This would be a Year Without a Nutcracker.