MY TOP 3 BOOKS OF THE YEAR
SALTWATER – JESSICA ANDREWS (Sceptre, 2019)
THE DISCOMFORT OF EVENING – MARIEKE LUCAS RIJNEVELD (Faber & Faber, 2020)
BOY PARTS – ELIZA CLARK (Influx Press, 2020)
THE BEST OF THE REST
THE FALCONER – DANA CZAPNIK (Faber & Faber, 2019)
DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD – OLGA TOKARCZUK, trans. ANTONIA LLOYD-JONES (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019)
THE COPENHAGEN TRILOGY [CHILDHOOD / YOUTH / DEPENDENCY] – TOVE DITLEVSEN (Penguin Classics, 2019)
SUPPER CLUB – LARA WILLIAMS (Hamish Hamilton, 2019)
A GIRL’S STORY – ANNIE ERNAUX, trans. ALISON L. STRAYER (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020)
WEATHER – JENNY OFFILL (Granta, 2020)
LANNY – MAX PORTER (Faber & Faber, 2020)
HURRICANE SEASON – FERNANDA MELCHOR, trans. SOPHIE HUGHES (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2020)
MY PUBLISHER OF THE YEAR 2020
FITZCARRALDO EDITIONS
Other books I really loved this year:
Poemland – Chelsey Minis (Wave Books, 2009)
The Shock of the Fall – Nathan Filer (The Borough Press, 2014)
Black Cloud – Juliet Escoria (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2014)
Sweet Days of Discipline – Fleur Jaeggy (And Other Stories, 2018)
Green Girl – Kate Zambreno (Harper Perennial, 2014)
Bluets – Maggie Nelson (Jonathan Cape, 2017)
See the full list of every book I read in 2020 here
What was your favourite book this year? Tell me in the comments :) xx
Treacle Heart 
Okay these are a few books I enjoyed reading last year. They weren’t necessarily published in 2020 but I read them over the course of the last twelve punishing months.
Jeet Thayil – Low
Philip Roth – The Breast
Philip Roth – The Prague Orgy
Brandon Sanderson – Rhythm of War
Guy Gavriel Kay – A song for Arbonne
Jericho Brown – The Tradition
Deborah Landau – Soft Targets
Michel Houellebecq – H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
Perumal Murugan – Songs of a Coward
Tana French – Into the Woods
Tana French – The Likeness
And many more whose names I can’t remember. Thanks for the list! It reminds me that I must read more great woman authors.
I also really loved The Shock of the Fall. Girl, Woman, Other was wonderful. Also, The Forest of Wool and Steel was quite lovely. Loved Roger Robinson’s poetry collection A Portable Paradise… Also currently enjoying Jenny Offil’s Weather, and about to start The Discomfort of Evening now. :-) Read so much less in lockdown than I thought I would… I’ll read some of your recommendations this year!
Enjoyed so many books this year, but A man called I’ve, Circe were possibly most enjoyable. Half way through The Night Circus which has been wildly imaginative so far.