My Favorite Books of 2020

Special Links:
-Bookshop.org (US) full favorites page: https://bookshop.org/lists/favorite-b...
-Thoughts on earlier Realm of the Elderings Books:    • Three Trilogies | Robin Hobb (No Spoilers)  
-Longer discussions of Border and Bloodlands:    • The first three books I bought in 2020  
-Excerpt from Blue Nights:    • BLUE NIGHTS Joan Didion dir by Griffin Dun...  
-Full written review of The Masochist: https://openlettersreview.com/posts/t...

Books Mentioned:
-Pericles by William Shakespeare
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/97807432...
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
-Wasted Morning by Gabriela Adameșteanu (translated from Romanian by Patrick Camiller)
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/97808101...
-When He Was Wicked by Julia Quinn
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/97800623...
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
-What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/97805931...
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
-How I Came to Know Fish by Ota Pavel (translated from Czech by Jindriska Badal and Robert McDowell)
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
-Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/97805533...
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
-Passing by Nella Larsen
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/97801424...
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
-Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/97815559...
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
-Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/97804650...
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
-The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/97801414...
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
-Blue Nights by Joan Didion
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/97803073...
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
-The Masochist by Katja Perat (translated from Slovenian by Michael Biggins)
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/97819125...
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
-The Iliad by Homer (translated from Ancient Greek by Robert Fagles)
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/97801402...
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
-The Door by Magda Szabó (translated from Hungarian by Len Rix)
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/97815901...
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
-Lila by Marilynne Robinson
US: https://bookshop.org/a/11533/97812507...
UK: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

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