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Book Recommendations of 2020

12/15/2020

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Here is the total list of all the books that were recommended throughout 2020! Even some of the ones that got the least amount of votes seem like great reads and are still on my list.  Here's looking forward to next year's recs!
Title by Author (Month of recommendation)​

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The Hidden Girl by Ken Liu (March *Winner and Only)
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel (April * Winner)
The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray (February *Winner)
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi (September *Winner)
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (June * Winner)
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel  (November *Winner) 
Where the Bird Sings Best by Alejandro Jodorowsky (November)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick (September)
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (July *Winner)
The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup (Shocktober *Winner)
The History of the Future by Blake J. Harris (May)
American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson (May *Winner)
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin  (August * Winner)
To the Devil – a Diva! by Paul Magrs (July)
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin (Shocktober)
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman (Shocktober)
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (February)
Dona Barbara by Romulo Gallegos (August)
Bats of the Republic by Zachary Thomas Dodson (January *Winner)
The Wasteland and Other Poems by T. S. Eliot (November)
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (July)
Crisis in the Red Zone by Richard Preston (April)
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscape by Thomas Ligotti (Shocktober)
The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley (September)
The Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa (August)
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (June)
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (May) 
Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo (May)
The Great Influenza by John Barry (April)
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (February) 
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky (January) 
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (December)
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (December)
Broken Stars translated by Ken Liu (December *Winner)
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall (January)
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (November)
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (April)
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daneil Kahneman (December)
The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel (August)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (July)
How Much of These Hills is Gold by Pam C. Zhang (June)
Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald (February)
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (December)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (December)
Where the Bird Sings Best by Alejandro Jodorowsky (January)
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham (January)
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday (September)
The Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashino (August)
Discovering Scarfolk by Richard Littler (August)
The Fight by Norman Mailer (June)
Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie by Jiel Phegley (April)
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner (February)
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths (January)
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (January)
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (December)
They Called Us Enemy by George Takei (September)
Real Life by Brandon Taylor (July)
Under the Skin by Michel Faber (June)
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (June)
Paying For It by Chester Brown (June)
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (Shocktober)
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi (May)
Sapiens by Yuva Noah Harari (December)
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips (January)
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar (July)
Just Kids by Patti Smith (June)
Minor Feelings by Cathy Hong Park (May)
Dylan Goes Electric! By Elijah Wald (May)
The Warden’s Son by C. G. Cooper (January)
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom (January)
Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer (August)
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins (July)
 Point share %

​​100.0%
41.7%
37.5%
36.7%
36.7%
33.3%
31.0%
30.0%
30.0%
27.8%
27.8%
27.8%

​26.7%
26.7%
25.0%
25.0%
25.0%
23.3%
22.9%
21.4%
20.0%
19.4%
16.7%
16.7%
16.7%
16.7%
16.7%
16.7%
16.7%
16.7%
16.7%
16.7%
16.7%
16.7%
14.6%
14.3%
13.9%
13.9%
13.3%
13.3%
13.3%
12.5%
11.1%
11.1%
10.4%
10.4%
10.0%
10.0%
10.0%
10.0%
8.3%
8.3%
8.3%
8.3%
8.3%
6.7%
6.7%
6.7%
6.7%
6.7%
5.6%
5.6%
5.6%
4.2%
3.3%
3.3%
2.8%
2.8%
2.1%
2.1%
0.0%
0.0%
(Total Pts.)

N/A
15
9
11
11
14
13
9
9
10
10
10

8
8
9
9
6
7
11
9
6
7
6
5
5
5
6
6
6
4
8
6
6
6
7
6
5
5
4
4
4
3
4
4
5
5
3
3
3
3
3
2
4
4
3
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0​
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