Favourite Reads of 2020

My reading habits changed this year, and for the first time, I have audiobooks and eBooks on my list of favourite reads. It's also all non-fiction. As much as I could have used a dose of escapism this year, I seemed drawn to deep dives on important issues. 

So, in no particular order, here are the ten books from 2020 I'd highly recommend. 

• The Skin We're In by Desmond Cole (Watch the CBC documentary of the same name here)
• They Said this Would be Fun by Eternity Martis
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? by James Wilt (Here's Shawn Selway's review in the Hamilton Review of Books)
• Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc (Here's another review from the Hamilton Review of Books)
• This Is Not the End of Me by Dakshana Bascaramurty
• The Conscious Creative by Kelly Small
• Small, Broke, and Kind of Dirty: Affirmations for the Real World by Hana Shafi
• Missing from the Village by Justin Ling
• No More Nice Girls: Gender, Power, and Why It's Time to Stop Playing by the Rules by Lauren McKeon (Read my review at rabble.ca)
• I Want You to Know We're Still Here: A Post-Holocaust Memoir by Esther Safran Foer

Honourable Mentions

Here are a few memorable books I read this year that weren't from 2020. Add them to your list!

• Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown
• Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related: A Memoir by Jenny Heijun Wills
• Daughters of Silence by Rebecca Fisseha 

(I also read Normal People for a third time. It's a problem.)