With more people working from home and having more time on their hands, it was a banner year for readers. Our panel will share which books were their favorites of 2020. And we’ll get some recommendations for some of the best audiobooks of the year.
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Heidi Carter, owner of Bogan Books in Fort Kent; former graphic designer/marketing consultant
Susan Conley, author of five books, including "Elsey Come Home" and "The Foremost Good Fortune"; her novel "Landslide" will be published in Feb. 2021
Lewis Robinson, author who currently teaches at University of Maine at Farmington; his works include "Water Dogs" and "Officer Friendly and Other Stories"; he is also the creator of the podcast TalkShop—writers in conversation with writers
Emily Connelly, assistant editor, Audiofile magazine
- "The Bear," by Andrew Krivak
- "The Book of Longings," by Sue Monk Kidd
- "Magic Lessons," by Alice Hoffman
- "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You," by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- "Be You," by Peter H. Reynolds
- "The Day You Begin," by Jacequline Woodson
- "The Lost Queen" and "The Forgotten Kingdom," by Signe Pike
- "Mill Town," by Kerri Arsenault
- "Friends and Strangers," by J. Courtney Sullivan
- "Almost Maine," by John Cariani
- "Stories of Aroostook" and "True North," by Kathryn Olmstead
- "Ready Player Two," by Ernest Kline
- "The Four Winds," by Kristin Hannah
- "Super Host," by Kate Russo
- "Dear Edward," by Anna Napolatino
- "Memorial," by Bryan Washington
- "Just Us," by Claudia Rankine
- "Notes on a Silencing," by Lacy Crawford
- "The Boy in the Field," by Margot Livesey
- "The Lost Children Archive," by Valerie Luiselli
- "Recollections of My Non-existence," by Rebecca Solnit
- "The Summer Book," by Tove Jansson
- "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," by Isabel Wilkerson
- "Enter the Aardvark," by Jessica Anthony
- "Sigh, Gone," by Phuc Tran
- "Transcendent Kingdom," by Yaa Gyasi
- "Writers and Lovers," by Lily King
- "Interior Chinatown," by Charles Yu
- "Nothing to See Here," by Kevin Wilson
- "Another Country," by James Baldwin
- "Shuggie Bain," by Douglas Stuart
- "A Promised Land," by Barack Obama
- "Landslide," by Susan Conley
- "Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor," by Layla F. Saad
- "A Promised Land," by Barack Obama
- "Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book," by Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds
- "Underland: A Deep Time Journey," by Robert MacFarlane
- "The Lost Spells," by Robert MacFarlane
- "Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine," by Gail Honeyman
- "The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone," by Olivia Laing
- "Tales of the St. John River And Other Stories," by Ernest Stanley Kirkpatrick
- "A People's History of the United States," by Howard Zinn
- "Ben of Old Monhegan: A Boy's Life Among the Fisher Folk Off the Coast of Maine," by Sidney Baldwin
- "Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett," by James Sullivan
- "A Visit to the Bahamas from A to Z," by Veronica McFall
- "Nine Mile Bridge," by Helen Hamlin
- "My Life in the Maine Woods: A Game Warden's Wife in the Allagash Country," by Annette Jackson
- "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry," by Rachel Joyce
- "One Day in December," by Josie Silver
- "Looking for Travolta: A Ghost Story for Christmas," by Vicki Doudera
- "Rhythm of War," by Brandon Sanderson
- "Hello Darling: Historical Love Letters 1938-1945," by Patricia Schoen
- "On Gilbert Head," by Elizabeth Etnier
- "To Sleep in a Sea of Stars," by Christopher Paolini
- "Eragon," by Christopher Paolini
- "Uncanny Valley," by Anna Wiener
- "We Met in Paris: Grace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar," by Joan E. Howard
- "The Boy Who Knew Too Much: An Astounding True Story of a Young Boy's Past-Life Memories," by Cathy Byrd