My ten favourites of 2020.

10 Books That Made 2020 Bearable

From Beloved to A Theory of Justice — and everything in between.

This year sucked. So I read — to forget the mess we are in, the mess we made while trying to get out, and the mess that is surely yet to come. Some of the 58 books I read in 2020 also sucked. Candide by Voltaire was ridiculous, and not in the positive sense of the word. The most fun I had while…