Saturday, January 1, 2000
Christopher's Books 2020
by Helen DeWitt
63. The Code of the Woosters
by P. G. Wodehouse
62. Transit
by Rachel Cusk
61. Jesus Christs
by A. J. Langguth
60. Pale Horse, Pale Rider
by Katherine Anne Porter
59. Shardik
by Richard Adams
58. The Conservationist
by Nadine Gordimer
57. Wish Her Safe at Home
by Stephen Benatar
56. The Riddle of the Labyrinth
by Margalit Fox
55. Party Going
by Henry Green
54. White Walls
by Tatyana Tolstaya
53. Leaving the Atocha Station
by Ben Lerner
52. O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather
51. Nobody Move
by Denis Johnson
50. The Sparrow
by Mary Doria Russell
49. The Chrysalids
by John Wyndham
48. Iza's Ballad
by Magda Szabo
47. God is Red: A Native View of Religion
by Vine Deloria Jr.
46. Grand Hotel
by Vicki Baum
45. My Life in CIA
by Harry Mathews
44. The Pumpkin Eater
by Penelope Mortimer
43. A Mixture of Frailties
by Robertson Davies
42. All Passion Spent
by Vita Sackville-West
41. Too Loud a Solitude
by Borumil Hrabal
40. The Secret Chord
by Geraldine Brooks
39. Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman
38. The Salt-Eaters
by Toni Cade Bambara
37. A Lesson Before Dying
by Ernest J. Gaines
36. Giant
by Edna Ferber
35. Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid
34. Event Factory
by Renee Gladman
33. Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles
by Gerald Vizenor
32. Excellent Women
by Barbara Pym
31. We Believe the Children
by Richard Beck
30. Home Truths
by Mavis Gallant
29. Ledfeather
by Stephen Graham Jones
28. Young Man with a Horn
by Dorothy Baker
27. Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s
by Kier-La Janisse and Paul Corupe
26. The Claw of the Conciliator
by Gene Wolfe
25. The True Heart
by Sylvia Townsend Warner
24. The Plague
by Albert Camus
23. Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar
22. The Abbess of Crewe
by Muriel Spark
21. Dune
by Frank Herbert
20. House Made of Dawn
by N. Scott Momaday
19. The Quest for the Historical Satan
by Miguel A. De La Torre and Albert Hernandez
18. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
by Alice Munro
17. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
by Elena Ferrante
16. A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul
15. David's Story
by Zoe Wicomb
14. The Stars My Destination
by Alfred Bester
13. Angel
by Elizabeth Taylor
12. The Damnation of Theron Ware
by Harold Frederic
11. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
by Louise Erdrich
10. Winter Count
by Barry Lopez
9. Split Tooth
by Tanya Tagaq
8. Moon of the Crusted Snow
by Waubgeshig Rice
7. The Quick and the Dead
by Joy Williams
6. Savage Conversations
by LeAnne Howe
5. Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong
by Paul Chaat Smith
4. There There
by Tommy Orange
3. The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin
2. Fathers and Crows
by William T. Vollmann
1. Thinking About God
by Dorothee Solle
Brittany's Books 2020
Brittany's Year In Review 2020
61. The Butterfly Lampshade - Aimee Bender
60. Holidaze - Christina Lauren (romance)
59. Clap When You Land - Elizabeth Acevedo (YA poetry)
58. Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall (nonfiction)
57. My Favorite Half Night Stand - Christina Lauren (romance)
56. Touchpoints - T. Berry Brazelton (nonfiction)
55. The Duke Who Didn't - Courtney Milan (romance)
54. Room-Maid - Sariah Wilson (romance)
53. The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion (romance)
52. Take a Hint Dani Brown - Talia Hibbert (romance)
51. The Unhoneymooners - Christina Lauren (romance)
50. Boyfriend Material - Alexis Hall (romance)
49. Sabrina and Corina - Kali Fajardo-Anstine (short stories)
48. The Worst Best Man - Mia Sosa (romance)
47. In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado (nonfiction)
46. By Any Means Necessary - Candice Montgomery (YA)
45. Recipe for Persuasion - Sonali Dev (romance)
44. You Had Me At Hola - Alexis Daria (romance)
43. Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
42. Policing the Black Man - Angela J. Davis (nonfiction)
41. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
40. Girl Gone Viral - Alisha Rai (romance)
39. Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors - Sonali Dev (romance)
38. Bringing Up Bébé - Pamela Druckerman (nonfiction)
37. The Bilingual Edge - Kendall King and Allison Mackey (nonfiction)
36. Signs Preceding the End of the World - Yuri Herrera
35. Minor Feelings - Courtney Park Hong (nonfiction)
34. The Bride Test - Helen Hoang (romance, read twice!)
33. The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang (romance, read twice!)
32. Party of Two - Jasmine Guillory (romance)
31. Hold Me - Courtney Milan (romance)
30. Bringing Down the Duke - Evie Dunmore (romance)
29. Unraveled - Courtney Milan (romance)
28. Unclaimed - Courtney Milan (romance)
27. Unveiled - Courtney Milan (romance)
26. Well Met - Jen DeLuca (romance)
25. Love Lettering - Kate Clayborn (romance)
24. The Governess Affair - Courtney Milan (romance)
23. Talk Sweetly To Me - Courtney Milan (romance)
22. The Suffragette Scandal - Courtney Milan (romance)
21. A Kiss for Midwinter - Courtney Milan (romance)
20. The Countess Conspiracy - Courtney Milan (romance)
19. The Heiress Effect - Courtney Milan (romance)
18. The Duchess War - Courtney Milan (romance)
17. American Dreamer - Adriana Herrera (romance)
16. Next Year In Havana - Chanel Cleeton
15. Trade Me - Courtney Milan (romance)
14. The Incendiaries - R. O. Kwon
13. The Hating Game - Sally Thorne (romance)
12. The Matchmaker's List - Sonya Lalli (romance)
11. Always and Forever, Lara Jean - Jenny Han (YA romance)
10. P.S. I Still Love You - Jenny Han (YA romance)
9. Twice the Growl - Milly Taiden (accident!)
8. Get a Life, Chloe Brown - Talia Hibbert (romance)
7. The House At Riverton - Kate Morton (recommended)
6. The Flatshare - Beth O'Leary (romance)
5. Color Me In - Natasha Diaz (YA)
4. Dealing in Dreams - Lilliam Rivera (YA)
3. To All The Boys I've Loved Before - Jenny Han (YA romance)
2. Lotería - Mario Alberto Zambrano
1. Tell Me How You Really Feel - Aminah Mae Safi (YA romance)
Brent's Books 2020
Joanna Walsh
2. The Westing Game
Ellen Raskin
3. The Pumpkin Eater
Penelope Mortimer
4. She Said
Jodi Cantor
5. Sor Juana Inez De Le Cruz: Selected Works
Edith Grossman
6. Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity
Kathryn Tanner
7. Media Control
Noam Chomsky
8. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers
9. Joy in the Morning
P. G. Wodehouse
10. Playing Changes
Nate Chinen
11. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
12. Following Christ in a Consumer Society: The Spirituality of Cultural Resistance
John Francis Kavanaugh
13. Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis
14. Chicago Poems
Carl Sandburg
15. The Abbess of Crewe
Muriel Spark
16. John Wesley's Teachings: God and Providence
John Wesley / Thomas C. Oden
17. The Quick and the Dead
Joy Williams
18. Drinker
Christopher Chilton
19. The Mating Season
P. G. Wodehouse
20. Suffering
Dorothee Soelle
21. Ecosocialism
Michael Löwry
22. Magic Kitten: Firelight Friends
Sue Benton
23. The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoevsky
24. Woman's Consciousness, Man's World
Sheila Rowbotham
25. The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector
26. Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships
Karen Keen
27, Right Ho, Jeeves
P. G. Wodehouse
28. Household Words
Joan Silber
29. Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock and Fear, and Why
Sady Doyle
30. Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
31. Our Spoons Came From Woolworth's
Barbara Cormyns
32. The Twyborn Affair
Patrick White
33. The Sixth Extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert
34. I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Austin Channing Brown
35. The Feudal Spirit
P. G. Wodehouse
36. How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
David France
37. The Warden
Anthony Trollope
38. I Served the King of England
Bohumil Hrabal
39. Who Do You Serve? Who Do You Protect?
Maya Schenwar, Joe Macaré, Alana Yu-lan Price
40. I Remember Nothing
Nora Ephron
41. The Wild Robot
Peter Brown
42. Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
43. Post-Traumatic God
David W. Peters
44. Battered Love: Marriage, Sex, and Violence in the Hebrew Prophets
Renita J. Weems
45. The Expendable Man
Dorothy B. Hughes
46. The Red Record
Ida B. Wells
47. Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne
Wild C. Gafney
48. Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy, and Toxic Masculinity
Clementine Ford
49. The Little Disturbances of Man (Collected Stories, vol. 1)
Grace Paley
50. Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
51. Temporary
Hilary Leichter
52. Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
P. G. Wodehouse
53. Middle Passage
Charles Johnson
54. Fearing the Black Body The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
Sabrina Strings