The Best Books of 2020: Fiction!
/This was a year in which made-up stories never looked so inviting. Here are the top ten recommendations for fiction published in 2020.
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This was a year in which made-up stories never looked so inviting. Here are the top ten recommendations for fiction published in 2020.
Read MoreMarilynne Robinson began her novel Housekeeping while completing a dissertation on Shakespeare as a graduate student. Initially she wrote what now form the book’s preliminary scenes as exercises in extended metaphors. Evoking her childhood home of Sandpoint, Idaho, a lake town in the panhandle of the state (in the book she renames it Fingerbone) and remotely drawing off her ancestors, Robinson simply wanted to see if she could still write something other than scholastic essays. Also, she has said, she wanted to impress her friends.
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Britta Böhler
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Eric Karl Anderson
Olive Fellows
Jack Hanson
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Justin Hickey
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