Shortlist of the Best Books I Read in 2020

• Book I recommend everyone read: The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla, Unbound
• Most anxiety-inducing book: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, Vintage Books
• Favorite book of the year: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. SF Gateway
• Book that I hope replaced The Catcher in the Rye on high school reading lists: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Little, Brown UK
• Two great short story collections: Tell Tale by Jeffery Archer, St. Martin's Press, and The Mistletoe Bride & Other Haunting Tales by Kate Mosse, Orion  

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