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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