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
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