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‘Such A Fun Age’ by Kiley Reid No other 2020 debut quite compared with Kiley Reid’s brilliant take on the 19th-century novel of manners. Such a Fun Age centres on 25-year-old African-American nanny Emira, who finds herself caught up in the world of her polite, affluent (and deeply condescending) employers while grappling with what to do with the rest of her life post-university. Witty and thought-provoking. ‘Summer’ by Ali Smith If you have yet to read Ali Smith’s masterful seasonal quartet – written and published in real time – start at the beginning with Autumn, released i...

THE SHELF Daily Star Books’ Favourite Reads of 2020 The DS Books staff are excited to recommend the books, published in 2020, that taught us what it means to find joy, to be terrified and uplifted, and to willingly get lost in the written world. A longer version of this list—with more books suggested by more staff writers—will be available online. Read and follow us on @thedailystarbooks on Instagram, @DailyStarBooks on Twitter, and fb.com/DailyStarBooks on Facebook. Have a happy new year! The DS Books staff are excited to recommend the books—some published in 2020 and other slightly...

Here are the most-borrowed books of 2020 from Sudbury's Goodnow Library SUDBURY — Ann Patchett's novel, "The Dutch House," tops the list of the most-borrowed books from the Goodnow Library in 2020. The book is a family saga centering on a brother and sister over the span of five decades. Siblings Danny and Maeve are exiled from the eponymous Dutch House — the ornate mansion where they grew up — by their stepmother after their father dies. They are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped and must rely on each other to survive. The list, which includes literary fiction, man...

Robert Jones Jr. Is Son of Baldwin, and More The writer’s debut novel, “The Prophets,” is the Black queer love story he longed to read. Robert Jones Jr., the author of “The Prophets,” near his home in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.Credit...Naima Green for The New York Times Published Dec. 30, 2020Updated Jan. 6, 2021 In his 1985 essay “Here Be Dragons,” James Baldwin wrote: “At bottom, what I had learned was that the male desire for a male roams everywhere, avid, desperate, unimaginably lonely.” America’s attitudes toward sexuality, he added, are tragically,...

The culture that saved us: how audiobooks got me through 2020 Katie Law Reading books may have helped save the nation’s mental health during lockdown, but the discovery of being able to listen to them on Audible instead is what’s saved me. I’ve always enjoyed reading, but as the Evening Standard’s books editor, it also makes up a large part of my job. I prefer physical books to e-books so I can scrawl in margins, underline pithy bits and turn down page corners, but as the pandemic months rolled by, spending sedentary hours with a book at the kitchen table was becoming...