Another year has come and gone. You know what that means, don t you? Time for a bunch of strangers to tell you what was good! And why should you care what the LitReactor staff thinks are the best books of the year? Trick question! You shouldn t. But what they have to say might interest you nonetheless, because they are good-looking and knowledgeable and they read like the wind. So for those who care, we submit for your approval/derision some of LitReactor s favorite reads of 2020 (part 3). Not all of these books were published this year. We figured if someone read a book for the first time in 2020, they deserved the opportunity to crow about it.
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