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December 18, 2020

The Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction!

December 18, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction!

In spite of dire global circumstances, there were several nonfiction books that warranted recommendation this year.

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Best Books of 2020, Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction, Best Nonfiction 2020, Lurking, Jeanne McNeil, Hiding in Plain Sight, Sarah Kendzior, Pharma, Gerald Posner, Digital Cathedrals, Mark Mills, American Rule, Jared Yates Sexton, Deaths of Despair, Anne Case, Angus Deaton, Unholy, Sarah Posner, Inside Story, Martin Amis, Sovietistan, Erika Fatland, Caste, Isabel Wilkerson, Steve Donoghue, stevereads
December 13, 2020

The Best Books of 2020: Historical Fiction!

December 13, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2020: Historical Fiction!

The most distinguished books in the category of historical fiction.

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Best Books of 2020, Best Historical Fiction of 2020, Historical Fiction, Miss Austen, Gill Hornby, The Other Bennet Sister, Janice Hadlow, The Boy King, Janet Wertman, Marguerite, Marina Kemp, The Royal Governess, Wendy Holden, A Thousand Moons, Sebastian Barry, The Land Beyond the Sea, Sharon Kay Penman, The Bronte Mistress, Finola Austin, Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell, The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel
December 12, 2020

The Best Books of 2020: Romance!

December 12, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2020: Romance!

The best of torrid encounters and happy endings in 2020.

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Best Books of 2020, Best Romances of 2020, Romance novels, Best Romance, Return to Virgin Riber, Return to Virgin River, Robyn Carr, The Virgin and the Rogue, Sophie Jordan, The Princess and the Rogue, Kate Bateman, A Heart of Blood and Ashes, Milla Vance, Boyfriend Material, Alexis Hall, Two Rogues Make a Right, Cat Sebastian, Her Wicked Marquess, Stacy Reid, Earl's Well That Ends Well, Jane Ashford, Out of the Storm, BJ Daniels, This Cowboy of Mine, RC Ryan
December 05, 2020

The Best Books of 2020: Nature!

December 05, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2020: Nature!

The category of nature has become much more relevant in the year of COVID-19.

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December 05, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
Animals & Nature, Stevereads
Best Books of 2020, Nature, nature writing, White Feathers, Bernd Heinrich, Good Boy, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Being Frog, April Pulley Sayre, Becoming Wild, Carl Safina, The Nature of Fear, The Book of Eels, Daniel Blumstein, Patrik Svensson, Owls of the Eastern Ice, Jonathan Slaght, American Birds, Andrew Rubenfeld, Terry Tempest Williams, Library of America, Cat Tale, Craig Pittman, Nature Underfoot, John Hainze, Steve Donoghue, stevereads
December 04, 2020

The Best Books of 2020: Debut Fiction!

December 04, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2020: Debut Fiction!

Many very interesting, challenging, and moving debut novels appeared in 2020.

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Best Books of 2020, Debut Fiction, The Town, Under the Rainbow, Celia Laskey, Boys of Alabama, Genevieve Hudson, Swimming in the Dark, Tomasz Jedrowski, Saltwater, Jessica Andrews, The Beauty of Your Face, Sahar Mustafah, Follow Me to the Ground, Sue Rainsford, Kingdomtide, Rye Curtis, Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Kawai Strong Washburn, fiction, debut fiction
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