Favourite Reads of 2020

Welcome to my attempt to try and highlight a few favourites from the 286 books that I read this year!


~~~Books Mentioned~~~~


**2020 Honourable Mentions**
Disparates - Patrick Madden
Sing Backwards and Weep - Mark Lanegan
Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
The Subtweet - Vivek Shraya
Noopiming - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
The Beguiling - Zsuzsi Gartner

**Top 10 Favourites**
Grendel - John Gardner
Daytripper - Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá
The Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Ditlevsen (trans. Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favolla Goldman)
Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare
A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams
The Novel: A Biography - Michael Schmidt
The Red and the Black - Stendhal (trans. Burton Raffel)
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Notre Dame de Paris - Victor Hugo (trans. Katherine Liu)
In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust (trans. Davis/Moncrieff/Enright/Kilmartin)

~~~ Videos Mentioned ~~~
Reading Proust in 2020:
   • In Search of Lost Time: Reading Prous...