1/ My favorite reads of 2020, including two best-of-all-time titles.

Categories: romance, fiction, sff, and non-fic.

Titles are in no special order, and I didn't limit myself to an arbitrary number of titles per category.

Total read (so far--there's still time): 160
2/ Romance:
Love Lettering (@kateclayborn)
Modern Love series (@AlishaRai)
One to Watch (@_ksl)
Act Your Age, Eve Brown (March '21, @TaliaHibbert)
Shipped (Jan '21, @Angie_Hockman)
It's Been a Pleasure, Noni Blake (Feb '21 in US, @pearliestpearl) >> this is a Top 5 of All Time
3/ SFF:
Piranesi (Susanna Clarke)
A Deadly Education (@naominovik)
Fable (@adriennebooks) >> Namesake completes the duology March '21 and it's superb
The Midnight Bargain (@clpolk)
Winternight trilogy (@arden_katherine)
House of Earth and Blood (@SJMaas)
4/ Fiction:
Such a Fun Age (@kileyreid)
Followers (@meganangelo)
The Glass Hotel (@EmilyMandel)
Daisy Jones and the Six (@tjenkinsreid)
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts (@kateracculia)
Set My Heart to Five (@TheSimonBot)
Truly Devious series (@maureenjohnson)
(cont'd)
5/ Fiction:
The Smash-Up (@alibenj1)
Migrations (@CharMcConaghy) >> The #1 best book I read this year, certainly a Top 5 of All Time.
6/ Non-fiction:
Not my most robust category, but these two left deep, important impressions on my heart.
Just Mercy (@eji_org)
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (@LoriGottlieb1)
7/ What did you love this year? What should headline my 2021 reading? You've made some great recommendations, Twitter, so keep 'em coming! 😉📚♥️

#amreading #BestOf2020 #writingcommunity #romancelandia

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