In the early days of the pandemic, my social media feeds were filled with people boasting about all the reading they were getting done during quarantine, which only made me wonder when they were finding time to nurse their anxieties and care for their suddenly omnipresent children. Certainly for as many of us who plowed through more books than ever this year, there are those who haven’t read anything more complex than a Netflix episode summary in...quite some time.
If books had to do a lot to wrest our attention away from the burning world of 2020, then consider these recommendations from the Lifehacker staff, which managed to do exactly that. These books weren’t all released this year, but they were read this year, and that certainly should tell you something.
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