Top Five Books of 2020

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Add your favorite books read in 2020. Define favorite however you wish. Books don't need to be a 2020 pub date, just ones you read this year. You can see the LT Staffer picks at the LT Blog: https://blog.librarything.com/main/2020/12/top-5-books-2020/ And participate in the conversation on Talk: https://www.librarything.com/topic/327305
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-pilgrim-: Whimsical, fantastic, often hilarious, yet it still manages to get in some serious swipes ín at the flaws in Soviet society.
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-pilgrim-: A novel that combines a deep understanding of the myths that continue to shape the English cultural imagination with a powerful attack on the more rabid aspects of nationalism, brought to the fore in the Brexit debate.
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-pilgrim-: A history of religion in America, from its earliest colonial settlements, showing the affects of politics on religion, and how religious beliefs affected political ideology. Covers all politically active religious groups (not just Christian) and explaining why the debates on slavery took completely different forms on the opposite sides of the Atlantic.
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-pilgrim-: Written by A Jewish, communist German exile whilst the Second World War was raging, this tale of an escape attempt from a concentration camp is set the early thirties, and focusses on the oppression of socialists. It depicts the variety of reactions from rural Germans to the horrors in their midst, and how difficult it was for those who desired to oppose the stem to fix one another.
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