EPISODE 26 | Favorite Reads of 2020

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Favorite reads of 2020 recorded for KFSK Public Radio, Thursday, January 14, 2021. Avid readers Lizzie Thompson, Rick Fish, Gina Esposito, Nate Olsen, Julie Hursey, and Sue Paulsen discuss their favorite reads of 2020.

Lizzie Thompson - Braiding Sweetgrass By Robin Wall Kimmerer

Rick Fish - Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think By Hans Rosling

Nate Olson - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire By J.K. Rowling

Gina Esposito

Julie Hursey - A Beachcomber’s Odyssey: Treasures From a Collected Past by S. Deacon Ritterbush

Sue Jensen Paulsen

  • Children of Ash & Elm: A History of the Vikings By Neil Price

  • The Lake Wobegon Virus By Garrison Keillor

  • These Truths: A History of the United States By Jill Lepore

  • Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail By Stephen Taylor

  • Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics By Heather Lende

  • The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History By Kassia St. Clair

  • The Mirror and the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy, book 3) By Hilary Mantel

  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents By Isabel Wilkerson

  • The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age By Leo Damrosch

  • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous By Joseph Henrich