The Best Books of 2020

 It has trapped the darkest time of 2020 since the outbreak of COVID-19 which has swept whole countries all over the world. Everyone has to wear a mask and stay at home. If you feel bored, you might as well read books and travel in the ocean of books. These long evenings don't have to feel lonely or purposeless, if you have the company of a good book. Today, this blog will introduce 5 best books of 2020. 

Memorial Drive, by Natasha Tretheway

Pulitzer winner, former poet laureate of the United States, and all-around literary star Natasha Trethewey was 19 when her mother Gwendolyn Turnbough was murdered — shot to death by her ex-husband just outside her Atlanta apartment. Trethewey spent seven years examining court documents and crime-scene photos and her own obstructed memories to write this transcendent memoir. For Natasha Trethewey, the end is very much the beginning, for both her startling new memoir and, as we learn across its pages, the second iteration of herself. And often, as the nonlinear retelling dances between years, dreams, and hazy memories, the work enraptures like a thriller, unraveling as it races against the inevitable.

Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell

England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young, alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on in this national best seller and winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Another novel about Shakespeare’s life? Another novel about Shakespeare’s life! This time, in the capable, subversive hands of Maggie O’Farrell (author of the captivating I am, I am, I am: Seventeen Brushes with Death), the Bard himself is left nameless and given very few lines. Instead, the focus is on his wife, Agnes, who must first endure the death of their son Hamnet to plague, and then his father co-opting his life to create Hamlet (the names, apparently, were interchangeable in early seventeenth-century England). Hamnet hangs heavy with Agnes’ grief, but O’Farrell has fingers like a couture embroiderer, and she spangles this novel with sly, artful allusions to Shakespeare’s best work, putting herself on par with the great man himself.

Call Me By Your Name, by AndréAciman

Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spirits is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America, by Conor Dougherty

Golden Gates is a careful consideration of the Bay Area's slow-burning housing crisis and deepening socioeconomic cleft, and a finely reported exploration of some more recent accelerants: political infighting, arcane policy, the strictures and incentives of capitalism, and, of course, the rapid growth and ascendance of Silicon Valley tech corporations. With precision, insight, and flashes of humor, Conor Dougherty delivers intimate glimpses of a region in transition, and a sobering reminder that San Francisco, these days, is not so much an exception as a harbinger of the future for America's cities.  Through zippy prose and deep reporting, Dougherty, a former housing reporter for The Wall Street Journal, explains why housing has become unaffordable and how we can solve the problem--that is, if we want to. 

Sisters, by Daisy Johnson

Like the best gothic novels, Sisters turns its setting into a character. July and September are dragged to their aunt’s sagging, rotting house near the York Moors by their mother, who promptly heads for the bedroom and doesn’t come back out. As the girls are left to their own devices, more hints about the disturbing event that sent them packing trickle out, and the house turns into both a den and a trap. In less steady hands, the premise could sail off into the deep end of absurdity, but Johnson’s sure writing keeps everything in check — until a climax that manages to blow some wigs off. Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. Now, following a case of school bullying, the teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore. In their new, isolated life, July finds that the deep bond she has always shared with September is shifting in ways she cannot entirely understand. A creeping sense of dread and unease descends inside the house. Meanwhile, outside, the sisters push boundaries of behavior—until a series of shocking encounters tests the limits of their shared experience, and forces shocking revelations about the girls’ past and future.

These books are all available in Amazon. You can also download them on digital eBook version for your Kindle. But what if you want to read them on your iPhone? Don't worry, follow steps below to remove DRM from Kindle's eBook and apply on iPhone:

What is Kindle DRM?

DRM, short for Digital Rights Management, is used to strengthen the protection of digital audio and video program content, documents, and electronic books copyright. Just as the same way it applies, Kindle DRM is used to protect book and other source contents stored in your Kindle so as to prevent any illegal usages and copyright problems.

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