You tell us (again): 2020’s best book so far, part I

Inspired by Amazon’s list of the best books so far in 2020, we asked our Facebook followers to share their favorites for the first half of the year.

That was a few weeks ago, and they delivered.

Or so we thought.

We shared their responses in a later post, and the rest of you absolutely blew it up! (In a good way.)

Omitting the books that were mentioned last time, here is a partial list to completely overwhelm your to-be-read pile ...

Popular picks

• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (four mentions)

• Circe by Madeline Miller (two mentions)

• Educated by Tara Westover (two mentions)

• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (two mentions)

• This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger (two mentions)

• The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern (two mentions)

• The Water Dancer by author Ta-Nehisi Coates (two mentions)

• Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (two mentions)

Two titles, one author

• What the Wind Knows and Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon

• The Water Keeper and When Crickets Cry by Charles Martin

• Before We Were Yours and The Book of Lost Names by Lisa Wingate

Series suggestions

• Ebola K by Bobby Adair

• Lonestar by Colleen Coble

• Natchez Burning by Greg Iles

• Outlander by Diana Galbadon

• The Expanse James S. A. Corey

• The Hunger Games and its prequel by Suzanne Collins

• The Magicians by Lev Grossman

Classics of all ages

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

• All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (autobiography)

• Orlando by Virginia Woolf

• Spark of Life by Erich Maria Remarque

• The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

We'll share the huge list of single mentions tomorrow ...

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