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The Best Fiction Books I Read in 2020

December 16, 2020January 13, 2021Categories books4 Comments on The Best Fiction Books I Read in 2020

Thank God for fiction in 2020. With many of us spending more time indoors this year than normal, books offered a welcome escape from both the walls of homes and the nightmarish news cycle. I was no exception, and I got a lot of reading accomplished by year's end. At the beginning of the year,…

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