Elaine Petrocelli
Shares Book Passage’s
Recommended Books of 2020
Recorded Saturday, November 28th, 2020
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Book Passage’s Recommended Books of 2020
Despite the year’s challenges, 2020 has proved to be a wonderful year for books!
Below please find the titles we’re recommending most during the holiday season.
Please visit our Corte Madera and San Francisco Ferry Building locations for more, or click a book title in the list below to find out more and purchase directly from the Book Passage website.
Fiction and Poetry
| Homeland Elegies | Ayad Akhtar |
| Leave the World Behind | Rumaan Alam |
| Dearly, New Poems | Margaret Atwood |
| Anxious People | Fredrick Bachman |
| Vanishing Half | Britt Bennett |
| An Inconvenient Woman | Stephanie Bulens |
| Only Truth | Julie Cameron |
| The Water Dancer | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| Whale Day | Billy Collins |
| The Law of Innocence | Michael Connelly |
| The Searcher | Tanya French |
| A Time for Mercy | John Grisham |
| Transcendent Kingdom | Yaa Gysaai |
| The Midnight Library | Matt Haig |
| The Orchard | David Hopen |
| Moonflowers Murders | Anthony Horowitz |
| The Thirty Names of Night | Zeyn Joukhader |
| How to Fly | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Deacon King Kong | James McBride |
| Migrations | Charlotte McConaghy |
| Circe | Madeline Miller |
| All the Devils Are Here | Louise Penny |
| You Will Never Know | S.A. Prentiss |
| Perestroika in Paris | Jane Smiley |
| Olive Again | Elizabeth Strout |
| The Queens Gambit | Walter Tevis |
| The Color of Air | Gail Tsukiyama |
| Cold Millions | Jess Walter |
| Interior Chinatown | Charles Yu |
Cooking
| The French Laundry Per Se | Thomas Keller |
| Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat | Samin Nosrat |
| Ottolenghi Flavor | Yotam Ottolenghi |
| Baking in the 20th Century Café | Michelle Polzene |
Non-Fiction
| American Utopia | Byrne/Kalman |
| My Country Tis of Thee | David Harris |
| Daughters of Yalta | Catherine Katz |
| Cassandra Speaks | Elizabeth Lesser |
| Vesper Flights | MacDonald Helen |
| Wintering: The Power of Rest, etc | Katherine May |
| His Truth Is Marching On | Jon Meacham |
| A Promised Land | Barack Obama |
| Electoral Bait & Switch | Bill Petrocelli |
| One Life | Megan Rapino |
| Luckiest Man, Life with John McCain | John Salter |
| The Best of Me | David Sedaris |
| Is This Anything? | Jerry Seinfeld |
| Group | Christie Tate |
| This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing | Jacqueline Winspear |
Gifts
| Ex Libras 100+ Books to Read and Reread | Michiko Kakutani |
| Spirits of San Francisco | Gary Kamiya |
| Barack Before Obama | David Katz |
| Forests of California | Obi Kaufmann |
| Braiding Sweetgrass Gift Edition | Robin Wall Kimmerer |
| A Wealth of Pigeons: A Cartoon Collection | Steve/Bliss Harry Martin |
| Planet Golf USA | Darius Oliver |
| What It’s Like to Be a Bird | David Sibley |
| Dream 100 from Evo and Octaine 100 Years, 100 Cars | Peter Tomalin |
| Beauty and the Beast, California Wildflowers and Climate Change | Nita Winter |