Favourite Reads of 2020 HD

Welcome to my attempt to try and highlight a few favourites from the 286 books that I read this year! ~~~Books Mentioned~~~~ ***2020 Honourable Mentions*** Disparates - Patrick Madden Sing Backwards and Weep - Mark Lanegan Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart The Subtweet - Vivek Shraya Noopiming - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson The Beguiling - Zsuzsi Gartner ***Top 10 Favourites*** Grendel - John Gardner Daytripper - Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá The Copenhagen Trilogy - Tove Ditlevsen (trans. Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favolla Goldman) Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams The Novel: A Biography - Michael Schmidt The Red and the Black - Stendhal (trans. Burton Raffel) Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer Notre Dame de Paris - Victor Hugo (trans. Katherine Liu) In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust (trans. Davis/Moncrieff/Enright/Kilmartin) ~~~ Videos Mentioned ~~~ Reading Proust in 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w1-g49DpsU&t=1280s