bigalbooks | Favourite Reads of 2020 @bigalbooksforever | Uploaded January 2021 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
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:
youtube.com/watch?v=_w1-g49DpsU&t=1280s