Top Five Books of 2020

Beschrijving
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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Een beloofd land
door Barack Obama
4,566 leden
131 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Algemene Rangorde 4
21 Members
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ManWithAnAgenda: I had kept my list to 5, but I saw 'Promised Land' and others being thumbed down by users who had ONLY thumbed books down and not added anything. So I balanced the scales.
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De testamenten
door Margaret Atwood
6,131 leden
225 besprekingen
4.1
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16 Members
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ManWithAnAgenda: Balancing the scales.
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Tussen de wereld en mij
door Ta-Nehisi Coates
7,738 leden
368 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Algemene Rangorde 42
7 Members
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ManWithAnAgenda: Balancing the scales.
4
Mexican Gothic
door Silvia Moreno-Garcia
4,726 leden
233 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Algemene Rangorde 9
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sogamonk : For me, too long. The scary parts were anticlimactic. Repetitive
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Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
door Susanna Clarke
26,981 leden
775 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 47
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amanda4242: This one languished on my shelves for ten years before I finally read it. I've now read it twice in three years and plan on reading it again.
: Absolutely impenetrable.
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Hamnet
door Maggie O'Farrell
4,370 leden
230 besprekingen
4.2
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Boand: A simply stunning and well paced book which reaches a wonderful crescendo at the very last moment! Words fail me - just read this book!!!
7
So You Want to Talk About Race
door Ijeoma Oluo
2,721 leden
87 besprekingen
½ 4.5
Algemene Rangorde 54
6 Members
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Het huis met de geesten
door Isabel Allende
13,971 leden
245 besprekingen
4.1
Algemene Rangorde 27
8 Members
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The Princess Bride
door William Goldman
24,819 leden
530 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Algemene Rangorde 123
3 Members
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De horlogemaker van Londen
door Natasha Pulley
1,905 leden
91 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Algemene Rangorde 124
2 Members
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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
door bell hooks
1,571 leden
16 besprekingen
4.2
Algemene Rangorde 125
2 Members
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