#2020Favorites #FictionEdition #Part2
This is How You Lose...- best time-travel sci-fi romance I've ever read.
My Calamity Jane - this series is nothing but a frolic and I am HERE FOR IT.
Transcendent Kingdom - I could not stop reading this story of a girl trying to use science to figure out her family.
The Prettiest Star - so beautiful and so heartbreaking.
#2020favorites #YAedition
Breadcrumbs - based on "The Snow Queen" - Hazel fights for her bff.
Igniting Darkness - not the best technically, but the final installment in a series I've loved.
Thorn - retelling of The Goose Girl - loved the strong, kind heroine.
The Extraordinaries - last book of 2020, and a complete delight from start to finish. Smart, weird teens are so great.
#2020favorites #FictionEdition #Part1
Song of Achilles - retelling of the story of Achilles & Patroclus, emphasising humanity's capacity to love.
Overstory - trees are important to my family, so this story of the connection of life & trees hit home.
Beauty of Your Face - the story of a woman returning to faith later in life is powerful.
Tell the Wolves I'm Home - the forbidden bond b/t June & Toby, her uncle's partner, is heartbreaking.
#2020Favorites #NonfictionEdition
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Native - a beautifully written, challenging and hopeful book about finding and honoring your identity in the world.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Letter from Birmingham Jail - I will never not feel like I missed out by not having this seminal work taught in school.
The New Jim Crow - eyeopening and heartbreaking exploration of America's systemically racist prison system.
#2020Favorites #GraphicNovelEdition
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐They Called Us Enemy - George Takei's graphic memoir of his family's time in an internment camp.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The Cardboard Kingdom - Mid-grade about neighborhood kids learning to appreciate each other & solve problems.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Snow, Glass, Apple - dark retelling of the Snow White story.
