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October, November, and December 2020 Picks
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Ottolenghi Flavor
Yotam Ottolenghi and Ixta Belfrage
The Tea Dragon Tapestry
K. O'Neill
Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky #1)
Rebecca Roanhorse
Ten Ways to Hear Snow
Cathy Camper and Kenard Pak
Dumplings Equal Love: Delicious Recipes from Around the World
Liz Crain
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
In the Half Room
Carson Ellis
Odessa
Jonathan Hill
Julian at the Wedding
Jessica Love
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest
Ed Caesar
The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food
Marcus Samuelsson
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Les Payne and Tamara Payne
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
Rachel Bloom
The Arrest
Jonathan Lethem
The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom
H. W. Brands
Memorial
Bryan Washington
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September 2020 Picks
Just Us: An American Conversation
Claudia Rankine
All the Devils Are Here
Louise Penny
A Girl Is a Body of Water
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Heroes Wear Masks: Elmo's Super Adventure
Sesame Workshop
One by One
Ruth Ware
Dear Justyce
Nic Stone
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
Jill Lepore
Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream
Mychal Denzel Smith
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August 2020 Picks
Vesper Flights
Helen Macdonald
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
Benjamin Dreyer
The Great Offshore Grounds
Vanessa Veselka
Finna
Nate Marshall
Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time
Hugh Raffles
Ikenga
Nnedi Okorafor
Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
Jill Heinerth
A Particular Kind of Black Man
Tope Folarin
Don't Ask Me Where I'm From
Jennifer De Leon and Elena Garnu
Collected Poems: 1950-2012
Adrienne Rich
If Not for You
Bob Dylan, David Walker
Farm and Nation in Modern Japan: Agrarian Nationalism, 1870-1940
Thomas R. H. Havens
Immigrant Labor and Racial Conflict in Industrial Societies: The French and British Experience, 1945-1975
Gary P. Freeman
The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburo: Modernism in Translation
Hosea Hirata
Prospects for Faculty in the Arts and Sciences: A Study of Factors Affecting Demand and Supply, 1987 to 2012
William G. Bowen and Julie Ann Sosa
Role of Mathematics in the Rise of Science
Salomon Trust
Shamanism and the Eighteenth Century
Gloria Flaherty
Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge
Giuseppe Mazzotta
Snatched
Bill James
Merchant Moscow: Images of Russia's Vanished Bourgeoisie
James L. West
Whitney M. Young, Jr., and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Nancy Joan Weiss
Iolani; Or, Tahiti as It Was: A Romance
Wilkie Collins
The Disney Middle Ages: A Fairy-Tale and Fantasy Past
Pugh, T.
Locarno Diplomacy: Germany and the West, 1925-1929
Jon Jacobson
Financial Crises, Liquidity, and the International Monetary System
Jean Tirole
Elite Weapons for Lego Fanatics: Build Working Handcuffs, Body Armor, Batons, Sunglasses, and the World's Hardest Hitting Brick Guns
Martin H?depohl
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July 2020 Picks
The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa and Stephen Snyder
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino
Deep River: A Novel
Karl Marlantes
Karen's Roller Skates (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #2)
Ann M. Martin and Katy Farina
Antiracist Baby Picture Book
Ibram X. Kendi and Ashley Lukashevsky
Girl Serpent Thorn
Melissa Bashardoust
Utopia Avenue: A Novel
David Mitchell
Three Women
Lisa Taddeo
A Very Punchable Face
Colin Jost
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Natasha Trethewey
Ghost Wood Song
Erica Waters
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June 2020 Picks
Wilder Girls
Rory Power
Death in Her Hands: A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
Max Brooks
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Ronan Farrow
One True King (The School for Good and Evil #6)
Soman Chainani
Honey and Venom: Confessions of an Urban Beekeeper
Andrew Cote
Thank You, Helpers: Doctors, Nurses, Teachers, Grocery Workers, and More Who Care for Us
Patricia Hegarty and Michael Emmerson
The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem
Sandra Tsing Loh
It's Not My Fault!
Jory John and Jared Chapman
The Girl and the Witch's Garden
Erin Bowman
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May 2020 Picks
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Ruth Reichl
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
Olivia Laing
The Girl Who Lived Twice: A Lisbeth Salander Novel, Continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series
David Lagercrantz
Pelosi
Molly Ball
Yeah, No. Not Happening.: How I Found Happiness Swearing Off Self-Improvement and Saying F*ck It All--And How You Can Too
Karen Karbo
Fire in Paradise: An American Tragedy
Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano
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April 2020 Picks
Circe
Madeline Miller
How Much of These Hills Is Gold
C Pam Zhang
Godshot
Chelsea Bieker
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Robert Kolker
Oregon Reads Aloud A Collection of 25 Childrens Stories by Oregon Authors & Illustrators
Smart
Echo Mountain
Lauren Wolk
Heaven
Emerson Whitney
How to Pronounce Knife
Souvankham Thammavongsa
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March 2020 Picks
The Mirror and the Light
Hilary Mantel
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
Rebecca Solnit
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
Daniel Immerwahr
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped From the Beginning
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi
Writers and Lovers
Lily King
Deacon King Kong
James McBride
The Mountains Sing
Nguy?n Phan Qu? Mai
Sharks in the Time of Saviors A Novel
Kawai Strong Washburn
Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land
Noé Álvarez
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate
Mark Kurlansky
Mañanaland
Pam Muñoz Ryan
My Best Friend
Julie Fogliano and Jillian Tamaki
Black Brother, Black Brother
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Coquette Or The History Of Eliza Wharton
Hannah Webster Foster
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
Samantha Irby
You Will Be Found
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Providence
Max Barry
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Joseph E. Peniel
Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor
Your Nose!
Sandra Boynton
Stand Up, Yumi Chung!
Jessica Kim
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Mira Jacob
The Odd 1s Out: The First Sequel
James Rallison
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February 2020 Picks
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
Erik Larson
Weather
Jenny Offill
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James
Verge: Stories
Lidia Yuknavitch
Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe
Brian Greene
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Layla F Saad
Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli
Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
Mitchell Jackson
Snapdragon
Kat Leyh
The Imaginaries: Little Scraps of Larger Stories
Emily Winfield Martin
Little Constructions
Anna Burns
The Good Egg Presents: The Great Eggscape!
Jory John and Pete Oswald
Here in the Real World
Sara Pennypacker
Something That May Shock and Discredit You
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Vera Violet
Melissa Anne Peterson
The Queen's Assassin
Melissa de la Cruz
No More Naps!: A Story for When You're Wide-Awake and Definitely Not Tired
Chris Grabenstein and Leo Espinosa
The Wicked King (Folk of the Air #2)
Holly Black
Birdie and Me
J M M Nuanez
Everywhere You Don't Belong
Gabriel Bump
New Perspectives in German Literary Criticism: A Collection of Essays
Richard E. Amacher and Victor Lange
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January 2020 Picks
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Agency
William Gibson
Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different
Chuck Palahniuk
Dead Astronauts
Jeff VanderMeer
Horizon
Barry Lopez
Karen's Witch: A Graphix Book (Baby-Sitters Little Sister Graphix #1)
Ann M Martin and Katy Farina
The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir
E.J. Koh
Okay Fine Whatever: The Year I Went From Being Afraid of Everything to Only Being Afraid of Most Things
Courtenay Hameister
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
Anna Wiener
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
David W. Blight
The Plotters
Un-Su Kim
When Death Becomes Life: Notes From a Transplant Surgeon
Joshua D Mezrich
F*ck No!: How to Stop Saying Yes When You Can't, You Shouldn't, or You Just Don't Want To
Sarah Knight
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
Damon Young
Night Theater
Vikram Paralkar
The Cool Bean
Jory John and Pete Oswald
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
Pam Houston
In a Jar
Deborah Marcero
The Sweet Indifference of the World
Peter Stamm
The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia
Emma Copley Eisenberg
Gender: A Graphic Guide
Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman
Mouthful of Birds: Stories
Samanta Schweblin
One of Us Is Next: The Sequel to One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus
What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
Dennis Baron
The Seep
Chana Porter
Love From the Crayons
Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers
Infinity Son (Infinity Cycle #1)
Adam Silvera
Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick: Stories From the Harlem Renaissance
Zora Neale Hurston
Fred's Big Feelings: The Life and Legacy of Mister Rogers
Laura Renauld and Brigette Barrager
Little Gods
Meng Jin
Race to the Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse
Run Me to Earth
Paul Yoon
The Gimmicks
Chris McCormick
Mind Body Baby: Astrology
Imprint
All the Days Past, All the Days to Come
Mildred D. Taylor
Wolfie
Ross Willis
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