Hi folks,
Today's post is part one of my 2020 reading review.
So, what was the best book?
As longtime TOA readers will recall, I start the formal process of picking a winner only after I post a reading review for everything I finished in the prior year. My target is to post each review within three months of finishing, so this means we'll get started sometime in April with the usual process - a few comments about each book as I eliminate it from final consideration, some more in-depth remarks for the final three or four, then the announcement of the TOA Book of the Year (aka, the most irrelevant prize in world literature) which ideally happens sometime in June.
Here's my shortlist for the 2020 TOA Book of the Year:
The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert
Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
The Medusa and The Snail by Lewis Thomas
The Cross of Redemption by James Baldwin
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
Monster by Walter Dean Meyers
Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson
The Apology by Eve Ensler
The Game by Ken Dryden
Strangers In Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Cribsheet by Emily Oster
What You Do Is Who You Are by Ben Horowitz
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
