I used to have a feature here on Saturdays called the Saturday Review of Books. And every year around the end of the year, I dedicated that Saturday Review to lists of books for the old year or for the new year or for anything in between: Favorite Books of This Year or What I’m Reading Next Year or The Best Books of All Time According to Blogger #1 or really any book list that came out on a blog somewhere at the end of the year. So, I’ve been collecting these lists, and now I’ll post a few each day. If I don’t already have yours linked here, please leave a comment and a link. I love book lists, and I like sharing them with you all.

Sarah’s Bookshelves: Most Underrated Gems of 2020. I guess they are underrated because I’ve never heard of any of them, nor have I encountered any of their authors before. Sea Wife by Amity Gaige sounds particularly interesting.

Modern Mrs. Darcy: 11 Series Kids Love (and their parents do, too!). Great list of new and old series books just in time for gift-giving.

Blue Willow Bookshop: Best Books of 2020. Some of these sounded worth checking out. I’ve seen several recommendations for the picture book The Old Truck by Jarret and Jerome Pumphrey. Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri is a book I just finished reading a few days ago, and I highly recommend it. A couple of nonfiction books from this list appeal to me for reading next year: The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Eisenberg and The Book of Eels by Patrik Svensson.

Bibliosanctum: Best of 2020, New-to-me Author Discoveries. I didn’t now that Christopher Paolini (Eragon) had written an adult science fiction book. I didn’t care for his Eragon series, but some of these other authors look interesting.

Bookstoker: Books for Christmas 2020. These recommendations from a British blogger are not your heart-warming Christmas tales of peace and goodwill, but rather the books this blogger enjoyed reading in 2020, mostly thrillers and poetry, and a couple of nonfiction books. She recommends Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet and American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, among others.

neverimitate: My Books of 2020. Another British blogger recommends some favourites. These are more literary, mostly published by small, independent presses. And the selections are very British, Irish, and European. Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce sounds like something I might enjoy from this list.

More book lists tomorrow.