2020 reads

Seems like a lot of good books this year.  And a more reasonable amount that I've read for myself (although, as usual, many kids/YA books).

  • Tricky Twenty-Two
  • Turbo Twenty-Three
  • The Witches
  • Fantastic Mr. Fox
  • Hardcore Twenty-Four
  • Look Alive Twenty-Five
  • The Testaments
  • The Book of Delights
  • The Phantom Tollbooth
  • The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
  • Lalani of the Distant Sea
  • The Moomintroll Series (#1-3)
  • The Penderwicks (#1-4)
  • The Four Tendencies
  • Twisted Twenty-Six
  • Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy
  • Becoming
  • Outer Order Inner Calm
  • The Obituary Writer
  • Magic Misfits: The 4th Suit
  • The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
  • Humans
  • The Great Shelby Holmes

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