Behold, my 2020 book list! 2020 wasn’t kind to me reading-wise, as being part of my state’s covid response really messed up my overall schedule, so I read way fewer books this year than in most years. Still, I made up for that by reading some REALLY good books – including 26 with queer characters and at least 13 from authors of color. Highlights included The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home, The Shadow of Kyoshi, and the Locked Tomb, Broken Earth, and Ascendant trilogies. House of Leaves was good, but I was expecting it to have a higher body count and I wanted more spooky house shenanigans and less relationship angst.

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1. All the Windwracked Stars – Elizabeth Bear
2. The Grand Escape – Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
3. Flaming Lioness: Ancient Hymns for Egyptian Goddesses – Chelsea Luellon Bolton
4. By the Mountain Bound – Elizabeth Bear
5. The Sea Thy Mistress – Elizabeth Bear
6. She-ra and the Princesses of Power: Legend of the Fire Princess – Gigi D.G
7. House of Leaves – Mark Z Danielewski
8. Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition – Paul Watson
9. Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns From Sumer – Diane Wolkstein and Samuel Noah Kramer
10. The Cat in Ancient Egypt – Jaromir Malek
11. Karen Memory – Elizabeth Bear
12. March Was Made of Yarn: Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown – Ed. by Elmer Luke and David Karashima
13. Down With the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic – Steven Biel
14. Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone – Richard Lloyd Parry
15. Deathless Divide (Dread Nation) – Justina Ireland
16. Stone Mad: A Karen Memory Adventure – Elizabeth Bear
17. The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel – Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
18. Lord of Strength and Power: Ancient Hymns for Wepwawet – Chelsea Luellon Bolton
19. Descent to the Goddess: A Way of Initiation for Women – Sylvia Brinton Perera
20. The Essential Rumi – Trans. by Coleman Barks
21. The Best of Elizabeth Bear – Elizabeth Bear
22. Mongrels – Stephen Graham Jones
23. Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Trilogy Book 1) – Tamsyn Muir
24. The Shadow of Kyoshi – FC Lee
25. Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Trilogy Book 2) – Tamsyn Muir
26. Drowning in the Floating World: Poems – Meg Eden
27. Lord of the Ways: An Anthology for Wepwawet – Ed. Dianne Bolton
28. Seven Devils – Laura Lam and Elizabeth May
29. The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth Book 1) – N K Jemisin
30. The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth Book 2) – N K Jemisin
31. Heathen: Volume 3 – Natasha Alterici
32. The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth Book 3) – N K Jemisin
33. Dragon Pearl – Yoon Ha Lee
34. Excuse Me, Are You A Witch? – Emily Horn and Pawet Pawlak
35. Crow And Weasel – Barry Lopez and Tom Pohrt
36. Girls of Paper and Fire – Natasha Ngan
37. Wilder Girls – Rory Power
38. The Scapegracers – Hannah Abigail Clarke
39. The Deep – Rivers Solomon
40. The Priory of the Orange Tree – Samantha Shannon
41. Three for the Road: Stories from Dread Nation – Justina Ireland
42. The Tiger’s Daughter (The Ascendant Trilogy Book 1) – K Arsenault Rivera
43. The Phoenix Empress (The Ascendant Trilogy Book 2) – K Arsenault Rivera
44. Girls of Storm and Shadow – Natasha Ngan
45. Witch Pilgrim Heretic – K.D. Hume
46. Titanic: Psychic Forewarnings of a Tragedy – George Behe