Over the past year, we’ve reviewed and discussed hundreds of books published this year, some of which we loved. We’ve shared with you our reviewers’ Best of 2020 lists–the AAR staff picked 76 books they thought deserved that moniker. (You can find them all here.)
You’ve heard from us. Now we’d like you to pick! Over the next month, AAR readers will, in a series of polls, choose their Best Book of the Year. Here’s Round One.
In this poll, we’ve listed all the books that made our reviewers’ Best of 2020 lists. You may pick as many as you’d like and may also suggest ones we’ve missed. Poll Two, which will run next week, will give you the top 25 choices. The final poll will let you pick from the top ten.
Go!
I hope this gives youall enough options!
Dabney, My link won’t work.
Does this work for you?
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BestOf2020RoundOne
Yes, thanks.
thank you, this is fun!
Don’t think it’s fair to vote for the only two I’ve read
Of course you can! And you can also add your own choice.
I’ve only read 3 of the books, but two of those were on my own top 10 for the year, so I felt like it was fine to vote for them.
The Last Wolf was published in 2018. Are these supposed to be just books published in 2020? I loved The Last Wolf, but I was just wondering.
Thanks for catching that. It should be the last book in the series. Not that one.
Is it because it was published in January 2020 that everyone has forgotten Kate Clayborn’s “Love Letters”? I’ve read other books that I liked, but it is the book that’s stayed with me through the year. Added it to the listed and hope others feel the same way.
Actually, it was published on December 31st 2019… which is a nit-picky distinction, but still…
That’s a terrible publishing date for an author!
I know books are released on Tuesdays, so I guess the book went on the shelves on Tuesday, 31 December 2019, but the copyright is 2020, which is the date I went by.
Still one of my favorite books of 2020. I adored Reid as a hero, and I loved the way it taught him (and us) to truly see our surroundings as they searched for inspiration for Meg. Made me fall in love with a wonderful hero and was also a love letter to the city. I understand books that glorify the wilderness and certainly agree that mountains and grand vistas speak to something in our souls, but there can also be beauty in the manmade, seemingly ordinary things we pass by without truly seeing on our walks to run our errands or commute to/from work. No one has to point out the beauty of Banff because it is impossible to ignore, but Love Lettering made me more aware of the variety and beauty of the built environment that I pass every day.
Possibilities I didn’t see in the list:
The Princess Knight by G. A. Aiken
Real Fake Love by Pippa Grant
Badger to the Bone by Shelly Laurenston
First Comes Scandal by Julia Quinn
I contributed Sajni Patel’s debut contemporary The Trouble with Hating You which got an A- review here at AAR. Match-making parents, terrific MCs, and the Texas-Indian culture/setting and cuisine.
250 people have responded! I’d love it if we could hit at least twice that. If you haven’t filled it out, please do! Thanks.
Crown of Darkness, Bec McMaster
Engagement and Espionage: Solving for Pie by Penny Reid
Age of Deception and Threshold of Annihilation by T.A. White
A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire by Jennifer Armentrout
Unlikely Heroes by Carla Kelly
This poll closes tonight. Round Two will be up in the morning!