November 2020 TBR

This month’s Unread Shelf Challenge for the Unread Shelf Challenge hosted by Whitney at The Unread Shelf is to read a book from your favorite genre. Now, tell a #bookstagrammer that they have to choose a favorite genre and you’re going to see a pained expression on their face. 🥴

Instead of focusing on this particular prompt, I’m going to focus on the Goodreads Nominations for Book of the Year that are on my TBR, but I haven’t quite gotten to yet! Obviously, I won’t be able to read all of the books on my list before the first round of voting ends, but hopefully I’ll get to a majority of them before the final round!

To help me whiddle down my books, I have a few categories I’d like to try to hit each month:

A Backlist Title: ❌ This won’t be a category this month
A BOTM Title: Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
A Nonfiction Title: *** Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
A NetGalley/Edelweiss Title:  *** The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
A Memoir: *** Here For It: Or, How To Save Your Soul in America by R. Eric Thomas
At least 2 physical ARCs:

• *** Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman
• *** Minor Feelings: An Asian Americans Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

Other books up for consideration:

• Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon
• Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
• A Burning by Megha Majumdar
• Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
• *** The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask
• *** Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
• Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow & Ann Friedman
• *** Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter in the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins
• *** The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
• *** A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
• *** Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami
• *** Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
• The End of October by Lawrence Wright

What books are on your list of hopefuls for November?

(#partner #freebooks: All books noted by asterisks (***) indicate I received the book for free from the publisher, the author, or another promotional company to review. All opinions are my own.)