Book Chat’s Favorite Books of 2020

Janeé and Rebecca, with the Book Chat team, join host Aaron to chat about their favorite books this year. What made them laugh? What made them cry? What made 2020 a great year for reading? Listen to the podcast to find out, and be sure to check out the show notes to see other books they loved that they didn't discuss.

Show Notes Book Chat Janeé's Books

• Picture Books
  
  • I Am Every Good Thing, by Derrick Barnes, illustrated by Gordon C. James
    
  • Anti-Racist Baby, by Ibram X. Kandi
    
  • We Will Rock Our Classmates, by Ryan T. Higgins
    
• Middle Grade
  
  • Class Act, by Jerry Craft
    
  • Twins, by Varian Johnson
    
  • The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love, and Truth, by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson
    
• Teen Fiction
  
  • Cemetery Boys, by Aiden Thomas
  • Clap When You Land, by Elizabeth Acevedo
    
  • Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel, by Jason Reynolds
    
  • The Magic Fish, by Trung Le Nguyen
    

Rebecca's Books

• This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar
• The Magic Fish, by Trung Le Nguyen
• The House in the Cerulean Sea, by T.J. Klune
• The Only Good Indians, by Stephen Graham Jones
• Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Are You Listening?, by Tillie Walden
• One to Watch, by Kate Stayman-London
• Frogcatchers, by Jeff Lemire
• Cemetery Boys, by Aiden Thomas
• All My Mother's Lovers, by Ilana Masad