Well, 2020 has been a very strange year – and that’s an understatement. But at least we read some great book this year – and voted on even more.
Here is the full list of all the books we voted on last year – with the winners in bold!
JANUARY Little Lovely Things by Maureen Joyce Connolly The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan The Silent Ones by KL Slater The Empty Nest by Sue Watson FEBRUARY Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo MARCH A Boy and His Dog at The End of The World by C.A. Fletcher The Priory of The Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch Vox by Christina Dalcher APRIL We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy Part-Time Working Mummy: A Patchwork Life by Rachaele Hamilton MAY Circe by Madeline Miller JUNE The Other Americans by Laila Lalami Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo Miracle Creek by Angie Kim JULY Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes Don’t Forget About Me by Mhairi McFarlane Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert AUGUST My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Run Away by Harlem Coben Dear Wife by Kimberly Bell The Nowhere Child by Christian White SEPTEMBER Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie OCTOBER The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali The Familiars by Stacey Halls The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead We Came Here to Shine by Susie Orman Schnall NOVEMBER Heroine by Mindy McGinnis How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox Color Me In by Natasha Diaz With The Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo DECEMBER The World Doesn’t Require You by Rion Amilcar Scott We Love Anderson Cooper by R.L. Maizes Exhalation by Ted Chiang Mouthful of Birds by Samantha Schweblin