2020 Halftime Report

I’m missing sports <sniff>, but I’m here for you with a sports metaphor.  It’s halftime, y’all!  And, while I usually work to pare down my recommendation lists, but, with books being one of the few industries coming out with new material all year, let’s celebrate by just going with the full blown list of books out in the first half of 2020 that I recommend.

The Magical Language of Others – E.J. Koh (January 7)

Mr. Nobody – Catherine Steadman (January 7)

Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases – ed. Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman (January 21)

The Majesties – Tiffany Tsao (January 21)

The Regrets – Amy Bonnaffons (February 4)

Weather – Jenny Offill (February 11)

Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture – Grace Elizabeth Hale (February 13)

Greenwood – Michael Christie (February 25)

The Warsaw Protocol – Steve Berry (February 25)

Deacon King Kong – James McBride (March 3)

Sharks in the Time of Saviors – Kawai Strong Washburn (March 3)

This Town Sleeps – Dennis E. Staples (March 3)

Under the Rainbow – Celia Laskey (March 3)

My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell (March 10)

Darling Rose Gold – Stephanie Wrobel (March 17)

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me – Bess Kalb (March 17)

The Red Lotus – Chris Bohjalian (March 17)

The Southern Book Club’s Guide To Slaying Vampires – Grady Hendrix (April 7)

The Subtweet – Vivek Shraya (April 7)

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power – Deirdre Mask (April 14)

The Happy Ever After Playlist – Abby Jimenez (April 14)

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 – Cho Nam-Joo (April 14)

The Nature of Remains – Ginger Eager (April 21)

The End of October – Lawrence Wright (April 28)

The Knockout Queen– Rufi Thorpe (April 28)

Take Me Apart – Sara Sligar (April 28)

The Paris Hours – Alex George (May 5)

A Burning – Megha Majumdar (June 2)

The Book of Rosy: A Mother’s Story of Separation at the Border – Rosayra Pablo Cruz and Julie Schwietert Collazo (June 2)

Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre – Max Brooks (June 16)

Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia (June 30)

 

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