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#2020Favorites #FictionEdition #Part2

This is How You Lose...- best time-travel sci-fi romance I've ever read.

My Calamity Jane - this series is nothing but a frolic and I am HERE FOR IT.

Transcendent Kingdom - I could not stop reading this story of a girl trying to use science to figure out her family.

The Prettiest Star - so beautiful and so heartbreaking.

BookNAround The Prettiest Star was my best read of 2020. 3y
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Breadcrumbs | Anne Ursu
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#2020favorites #YAedition

Breadcrumbs - based on "The Snow Queen" - Hazel fights for her bff.

Igniting Darkness - not the best technically, but the final installment in a series I've loved.

Thorn - retelling of The Goose Girl - loved the strong, kind heroine.

The Extraordinaries - last book of 2020, and a complete delight from start to finish. Smart, weird teens are so great.

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The Song of Achilles | Madeline Miller
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#2020favorites #FictionEdition #Part1

Song of Achilles - retelling of the story of Achilles & Patroclus, emphasising humanity's capacity to love.

Overstory - trees are important to my family, so this story of the connection of life & trees hit home.

Beauty of Your Face - the story of a woman returning to faith later in life is powerful.

Tell the Wolves I'm Home - the forbidden bond b/t June & Toby, her uncle's partner, is heartbreaking.

Tamra I loved Tell the Wolves! 👍🏾 3y
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Letter from the Birmingham Jail | Martin Luther Jr King, Jr Martin Luther King
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#2020Favorites #NonfictionEdition

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Native - a beautifully written, challenging and hopeful book about finding and honoring your identity in the world.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Letter from Birmingham Jail - I will never not feel like I missed out by not having this seminal work taught in school.

The New Jim Crow - eyeopening and heartbreaking exploration of America's systemically racist prison system.

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They Called Us Enemy | George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott
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#2020Favorites #GraphicNovelEdition

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐They Called Us Enemy - George Takei's graphic memoir of his family's time in an internment camp.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The Cardboard Kingdom - Mid-grade about neighborhood kids learning to appreciate each other & solve problems.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Snow, Glass, Apple - dark retelling of the Snow White story.