I’ll start posting my best of 2020 book lists after Christmas, but until then here are a few more lists from bloggers that I found intriguing and tempting (to add more books to my TR list).

Katie’s Favorite Books of 2020. Katie has The Library Book by Susan Orlean on her list, a book which will also figure in MY list for 2020. I thought it was loads of fun to go behind the scenes at the Los Angeles Public Library and see how it works. The fire part, not so much fun, but interesting nonetheless.

Pastor Keith Simon has a long list with lots of good books on it: The Best Books I Read in 2020. Being Mortal, Evicted, The Stranger in the Woods, and The Silent Patient are all books that I’ve read in past years and enjoyed to varying degrees. The most intriguing books on Mr. Simon’s list that I want to read is Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose.

Laura Gaskill: My Favorite Books of 2020. Good list, mostly fiction.

Lazy Genius Collective: My Favorite Books of 2020. Some of these are NOT my favorites; I’ll leave you to guess which ones. Others (The Body by Bill Bryson, Joyful by Ingrid Fetell Lee) sound worth a check out.

Janet’s Writing Blog: Favorite Books Read in 2020. Janet recommends two books I’ve already added to my TBR list, The Splendid and the Vile and Call the Nurse. And her descriptions of The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel and The Last Train to London by Meg Waite Clayton, both books about children in danger during WWII, make me want to try those two novels soon also.

Sarah Joy: My Top Five Favorite Books of 2020. These books all share the themes of finding peace, joy, courage and freedom from anxiety, some themes we can all use this year for sure.