Albany Public Library discussion

Welcome to Week 5! This week we have a list of best titles from 2020. Catch up on some great titles you may have missed last year! Which titles have you been waiting to read?

Fiction:

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Anxious People by Frederick Backman
White Ivy by Susie Yang
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdich
Memorial by Bryan Washington
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V E Schwab
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
The Searcher by Tana French
Blacktop Wasteland by S A Cosby
One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
The City We Became by N.K. Jemsin
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

Graphic Novel:

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

Nonfiction:

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alex Coe
A Promised Land by Barrack Obama
The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper
Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynonlds and Ibram X Kendi
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents byIsabel Wilkerson

As always, tell us which titles you are reading this week in a post below.

Just finished A Good Girl's Guide to Murder from this list. It was an enjoyable audiobook, but something seemed off with it. When I looked at the Goodreads page for the book, I learned that it was originally set in Britain, but it was published in the US, they changed a bunch of things to make it set in Connecticut. Why????

We discussed Good Girl’s Guide to Murder for an APL book club last year. Our cultures are similar enough that US readers could connect the dots if the British version had been released here rather than Americanized. It would have made for a smoother read.