Annie and Olivia sat down in the middle of the chaos to talk about The Bookshelf’s reading challenge (of sorts!) for 2020. We covered all sorts of categories, with a variety of books:
A Is for Alibi by Sue Grafton
Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The BFG by Roald Dahl
There There by Tommy Orange
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
This Is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
Brief Answers to Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
A Man Called Ove by Frederick Backman
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
The Case of the Velvet Claws by Erle Stanley Gardner
Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith
The Other Side of the Coin by Angela Kelly
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkienn
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon
Bread and Wine; Bittersweet; Cold Tangerines by Shauna Niequist
Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
Flour + Water by Thomas McNaughton
The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin
Devil in the Kitchen by Marco Pierre White
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Illegal by Eion Colfer
Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Aliyy
We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
The Great Gatsby and Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Paragon Hotel by Lyndsay Faye
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
Heartbreaker by Claudia Dey
Seven Days in Augusta by Mark Cannizzaro
Believe It by Nick Foles
The City Game by Matthew Goodman
Open by Andre Agassi
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This week, Annie's reading Friends & Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan.
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