Hey, readers, welcome to the currently reading podcast. We are bookish best friends who spend time every week talking about the books that we read recently. And as you know, we won't shy away from having

strong opinions. So get ready. We are light on the chit-chat, heavy on the book talk,

and her descriptions will always be spoiler-free. Today, we have a very special episode for you.

I'm Meredith Monday Schwartz, a mom of four and full-time CEO living in Austin, Texas, and I love not only to look back,

but to look way back. And I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling mama four living in Arizona,

and I love looking back on my reading life. This is episode number 21 of season seven,

and we are so glad you're here. We have a theme. We have a theme for a really good reason, Katie. There was really nothing else that we could say as we thought about this, because this is one of those really fun episodes where we're going to not just look back. We're going to look way back. We're going to look back to your top 10 favorite books of 2020. My top 10 favorite books of 2020. Of course, 2020 was that

amazing outlier of a year. Yep. It was a whole scene. And it definitely affected our reading

in both good ways and not so good ways. And you see that in this episode.

Yes, it is, it's interesting to look back on this year in specific because we've been doing

this now for a couple of years. And 2020 was such a change for so many of us. Some of us read way

more than we had in the past. And some people read

almost nothing because they felt like everything about that year was broken for them. So it's fun to

see what rose to the top out of that melee. Right. And I think it has a lot to do, like how much

we read or what our experience was had so much to do with the circumstance that we found

ourselves in during the pandemic, right? Which was so we were all going through the same thing,

but we all experienced it really differently based on our family situation at the time,

work situation at the time. That had a lot to do with it. I was lucky enough to go

through 2020, the lockdown, which is pretty much all of 2020 for us where we are with, I only had

one, I was only living, you know, with one of my kids, my husband and I only had one of our four

kids at home. Our older kids were grown and were in their own homes. And he was nine.

So I didn't have a baby at home at the time. I did. Yeah, exactly. So that for me,

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