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 most important book published this decade. Edited by Joy Harjo (Muscogee), LeAnne Howe (Choctaw), Jennifer Elise Foerster (Muscogee), and others, this enthralling anthology collects 161 Native poets who speak to the resilience of Indigenous voices through the generations. It’s divided into geographic regions, with poets listed chronologically according to their birth. The stanzas run the gamut of emotions, creating a tome that demands to be reread, taught, and quoted as a devotional to the power and sanctity of well-crafted words. This collection, more than any before it, enables a multitude of Native voices to shine through.