Ah, 2020. The year we all stayed home. We dressed down. We Netflixed. We baked banana bread. We Zoomed. And we READ. As someone who has spent the last few years recommending new reads on Instagram every Sunday (#psiread, @priyankaskhanna), I am happy to report a significant rise in my DMs asking for book suggestions, over the past few months. This year, as we stayed in, isolated from friends and families, and life as we knew it, words provided an escape—to alternate realities. And boy, was that just what the doctor ordered. When I suggested this idea to the team, I realised that I would have to pick my favourites too. When I look back at the year that was, my most noteworthy new reads would be the binge-worthy Megha Majumdar’s