Play Book Tag discussion

I've started to see lists of the top books. It's always fun to share them. If the list is not behind a paywall, feel free to post the link here.

If it is, then it would be terrific if you could post the book titles themselves.

Thanks for sharing! I don't know about you, but I feel like there was less consensus this year than prior years.

Time Magazine's Best Fiction Books of 2020

https://time.com/5913197/best-fiction...

10. Breasts and Eggs
9. Where the Wild Ladies Are
8. Deacon King Kong
7. A Burning
6. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears
5. Homeland Elegies
4. A Children's Bible
3. The Mirror & the Light
2. Shuggie Bain
1. The Vanishing Half

One of my favorite indies on the UWS of Manhattan just published its 2020 list:

https://www.bookculture.com/must-read...

The Children's Bible looks intriguing, I am going to add it to my shelf.

Joanne wrote: "The Children's Bible looks intriguing, I am going to add it to my shelf."

This is loaded on my Kindle and I plan to dive in in early 2021.

I wonder if there is a werewolf in it ;)

Here is Obama's List for 2020. I will come back and edit to list:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Homeland Elegies-Ayad Akhtar
Jack-Marilynne Robinson
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz - Erik Larson
Luster - Raven Leilani
How Much of These Hills Is GoldC Pam Zhang
Long Bright River - Liz Moore
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir - Natasha Trethewey
Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism - Anne Applebaum
Deacon King Kong - James McBride
The Undocumented Americans - Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
The Glass Hotel - Emily St. John Mandel
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker
The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson
Sharks in the Time of Saviors - Kawai Strong Washburn
Missionaries - Phil Klay

I added in the books. He has several which I meant to read this year but never managed.

Booknblues wrote: "I added in the books. He has several which I meant to read this year but never managed."

I just came to share the same. I've read 4 but many more on hold at the library or perhaps need to be added there. Obama really does a great list!

Jen K wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "I added in the books. He has several which I meant to read this year but never managed."

I just came to share the same. I've read 4 but many more on hold at the library or perha..."

I'm thinking if the Mental Health tag wins for January that I will read Hidden Valley Road. It has been on my radar all year.

That is a great idea! Hidden Valley Road has also been on my list.

Booknblues wrote: "Jen K wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "I added in the books. He has several which I meant to read this year but never managed."

I just came to share the same. I've read 4 but many more on hold at the li..."

I read it earlier in the year. It was really good but also really a tough read. It is an interesting mix of family history/ memoir and the story of the scientific research. The rough part includes explicit abuse so be warned.

Nicole R wrote: "That is a great idea! Hidden Valley Road has also been on my list."

let me know if you are still interested after the reveal of the tag. If it is something else, I will probably put it on the back burner as, I have others I am more interested in reading.

Will do!

Hidden Valley Road is one that we have put on the 'local' book club list. I think people are getting very interested in it. I bet it shows up a lot in 2021.

LitHub's list of lists and link to lists

https://lithub.com/the-ultimate-best-...

Jgrace wrote: "LitHub's list of lists and link to lists

https://lithub.com/the-ultimate-best-..."

Well this is awesome! Love that all the work is done.
But wow I diverged from the general public in 2020. I though Vanishing Half was dumb. And Leave the World Behind boring and pointless. Didn't like The Glass Hotel at all (sorry, Obama, I still love you) nor Such a Fun Age ...

Shuggie Bain - I just couldn't get past the alcoholism thus child abuse in this one.

LOVED Piranesi, A Children's Bible and Hamnet. My Dark Vanessa was solid, as was Real Life.

20 books in all the genre's-also there, a link to the long list of contenders

https://www.thriftbooks.com/blog/our-...

Nicole D. wrote: "Jgrace wrote: "LitHub's list of lists and link to lists

https://lithub.com/the-ultimate-best-..."

Well this is awesome! Love that all the work is done.
But wow I diverged from th..."

Piranesi and A Children's Bible are up real soon for me.

for the non-fiction lovers: https://bypass.theweek.com/articles-a...