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Print If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Even under quarantine, it isn’t always possible to get through all the books you want to read — not with so much Zoom schooling and doom-scrolling to do. As the holidays start creeping up and leisure time starts to stretch, it’s the perfect time to give the right person just the right book, or five or 10. Herewith, a carefully curated list of the most engaging, funniest and most urgent work of the year.

How will we remember 2020? It was a year unlike any other in our lifetime—one where the burdens and the blessings seemed to resonate more than we expected. While I don’t have the words to comfort all of the hardships we each faced, I know the value of escaping into a book. This year was a watershed year for Native publishing, with more wonderful texts coming to market than I can list in this column. Yet, what follows are the books I feel fortunate to have discovered, and ones I am certain you will come to treasure. When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through is the mos...