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All the Books!

Our Favorite Books of 2020

All the Books!

Book Riot

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss some of their favorite books of 2020, including The Orchard, Blacktop Wasteland, and World of Wonders. Pick up an All the Books! T-shirt here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: The Orchard by David Hopen The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust Ring Shout by by P. Djèlí Clark The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley-Eisenberg The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Crosby None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks WHAT WE’RE READING: In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren The Album of Dr. Moreau by Daryl Gregory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and

0:14.2

enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 290 and today we

0:19.1

are talking about some of our favorite books of 2020. I'm Liberty Hardy here with Tears of price and

0:24.2

we're coming to you from bookride.com. Tears a Liberty. How's it going?

0:29.7

Good. Like I don't know like we haven't just talked for like half an hour before we started recording.

0:35.0

I know.

0:36.0

It's part for the course with us.

0:37.0

Yeah.

0:38.0

I'm great. I'm excited to be talking about end of the year, you know, all the great best of books, but I'm also kind of like secretly a ball of anxiety on the inside because I hate leaving out books I love and we're only talking about so many books because the show can only be so long

0:56.3

So I feel like I have to apologize to all the books that I'm not talking about and all of the books I haven't read this year even though that's silly.

1:03.0

I should have given you my trick for helping alleviate some of your anxiety.

1:08.0

I didn't even think of it because I too get very stressed out about not being able to talk about more books because you know

1:14.4

authors work so hard on them and and there's just so many great books so what I do

1:19.0

is I put like a bunch of titles in a hat and then I picked eight and that way it's like well it was left

1:26.4

up to chance or fate or both of those fants I don't know and so therefore it's not really my I it's not my decision.

1:35.0

That's a good way of doing it. Yeah there and I mean like if you follow us at all on

1:41.1

book right like we shout about books in so many other places so yeah like we

1:45.7

were talking about all the books just not all the books all the books that we love this

1:50.0

year and just as many as we can fit in an hour. Yeah.

1:53.0

That would be impossible.

1:55.0

I've had the same sort of reading experience this year that I had last year,

2:00.0

which I find interesting because it was such a different year this year,

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