David and Perry look back at the books they read during 2020 and pick their favourites in a variety of categories.
- David’s reading during 2020 (03:59)
- Perry’s reading during 2020 (08:58)
- David’s Best SF read for the first time (04:19)
- Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan
- Hothouse by Brian Aldiss
- Touch by Claire North
- Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
- The Thing Itself by Adam Roberts
- Perry’s Best SF read for the first time (06:31)
- The Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Infinite Detail by Tim Maugham
- A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
- The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
- Ghost Species by James Bradley
- David’s Best SF read again (02:15)
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jnr.
- Solaris by Stanisław Lem
- The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
- Way Station by Clifford Simak
- The Dragonmasters by Jack Vance
- Perry’s Best SF read again (03:25)
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
- Dune World by Frank Herbert
- David’s Best Fantasy (03:04)
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- The Green Pearl by Jack Vance
- Madouc by Jack Vance
- Lyonnesse by Jack Vance
- Sylva by Vercours
- Perry’s Best Fantasy (04:09)
- Voices by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
- David’s Best Alternate History (02:27)
- The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick
- Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore
- Fatherland by Robert Harris
- Dominion by C. J. Sansom
- Perry’s Best Crime (05:46)
- Peace by Garry Disher
- Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
- The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan
- Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay
- The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
- David’s Best Crime (04:39)
- Truth by Peter Temple
- Gone by Midnight by Candice Fox
- The Searcher by Tana French
- The Broken Shore by Peter Temple
- The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan
- Perry’s Best Literary (06:25)
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
- A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
- The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott
- The Women in Black by Madeleine St John
- Heatwave in Berlin by Dymphna Cusack
- David’s Best Literary (09:08)
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- The Sunken Land Has Begun To Rise Again by M. John Harrison
- Human Croquet by Kate Atkinson
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
- Perry’s Best Single Author Collections (05:20)
- A Rose for Ecclesiastes by Roger Zelazny
- David’s Best Historical Fiction (02:26)
- The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
- How Much of These Hills is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
- What the Wind Brings by Matthew Hughes
- Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey
- Perry’s Best Novellas (08:10)
- This is How You lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
- The Children’s Bach by Helen Garner
- The Dragon Masters by Jack Vance
- Prosper’s Demon by K. J. Parker
- Sisters of the Vast Black by Linda Rather
- David’s Best Children’s Literature (02:57)
- I Was A Rat, or The Scarlet Slippers by Phillip Pulman
- Tom’s Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pearce
- Just William by Richmal Crompton
- Harding’s Luck by E. Nesbit
- Clockwork by Phillip Pulman
- Perry’s Best Nonfiction (04:05)
- Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
- Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room by Geoff Dyer
- The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
- David’s Best Nonfiction (02:55)
- Daemon Voices by Phillip Pulman
- Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe
- The Erratics: A Memoir by Vicki Laveau-Harvie
- Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
- Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman
- Windup (01:34)
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