33 Most Anticipated 2020 Books
Goodreads took a look at their data and put together a list of 33 of the most anticipated books of 2020 based on users’ “want to read” shelves. Organized by categories (Fiction, Mystery and Thriller, Fantasy/Sci-Fi, Nonfiction, YA, Romance) with some ending with a link to see even more anticipated books for the specific genre. Your TBR is hungry, feed it books!
RITA Awards Cancelled
The Romance Writers of America organization is still in the news, still making things worse, and has now cancelled its annual RITA awards: “Due to recent events in RWA, many in the romance community have lost faith in RWA’s ability to administer the 2020 RITA contest fairly, causing numerous judges and entrants to cancel their participation.” The “recent events” started with racism and has managed to continue to snowball.
New Book Column
Queenie author Candice Carty-Williams will be writing a weekly book column for the Guardian Review about books, the literary world, art and theater. “I’m looking forward to expanding my own reading, as well as readers’, and enriching our understanding of what books mean to us.” Very much looking forward to this!