Tuesday, December 29, 2020

My Top 10 Fiction and Non-Fiction Books for 2020

 

I normally read about 70 books a year, but this year only managed 60. (However I did half-read another 20 and bailed because they were either tedious or bad).


My top 10 fiction books read in 2020:

Lucy Ellmann, Ducks Newburyport

Jenny Offill, Weather

Sebastian Barry, A Thousand Moons

Gerald Murnane, A Season on Earth

Kate Grenville, A Room Made of Leaves

David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

Jock Strong, The Burning Island

Steven Conte, The Tolstoy Estate

Raven Leilani, Luster

Out of these the top 3 are:




My top 10 non-fiction books read in 2020:

Jack Fairweather, The Volunteer

Tom Holland, Dominion

Jess Hill, See What You Made Me Do

Kishore Mahbubani, Has China Won

Stephanie Kelton, The Deficit Myth

Melissa Davey, The Case of George Pell

Martin Amis, Inside Story

Zachary D Carter, The Price of Peace

Malcolm Knox, Truth is Trouble

Felicity Ruby & Peter Cronau (eds), A Secret Australia

Of these the top 3 are:


                                       

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