2020 Stand-outs
Announcing the 2020 Sonderbooks Stand-outs!
This marks my 20th list of Sonderbooks Stand-outs! These are my personal favorites from all the books I read in a year. I chose the ones that touched my heart and stand out in my mind after a year of reading. Find out more about my reading year on my blog. All these books are highly recommended! These are books I love, and I hope you'll find some you love, too.
General Nonfiction
- Know My Name
- My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me
- Me and White Supremacy
- Keep Moving
- The Earth In Her Hands
- The Hidden Life of Trees
- So You Want to Talk About Race
- The Orphaned Adult
- Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds
- Beneath the Tamarind Tree
Christian Nonfiction
Longer Nonfiction for Children and Teens
- Stamped
- An Indigenous People's History of the United States
- Infinite Hope
- Almost American Girl
- Playlist
- The Magnificent Migration
Fiction
Children's Fiction
- Fighting Words
- Prairie Lotus
- The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise
- Wink
- Monster and Boy
- A Long Road on a Short Day
- Catherine's War
- Before the Ever After
- A Home for Goddesses and Dogs
- Stepping Stones
- Mañanaland
General Children's Nonfiction
- When Stars Are Scattered
- Create Your Own Secret Language
- Sounds All Around
- The Superpower Field Guide
Moles
- Overview
- Can You Crack the Code?
Teen Speculative Fiction
- Return of the Thief
- Igniting Darkness
- The Queen of Nothing
- Red Hood
- Elatsoe
- The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
- The Guinevere Deception
- Cemetery Boys
- A Phoenix First Must Burn
- Burn
General Teen Fiction
- The Bridge
- We Used to Be Friends
- Clap When You Land
- Hand on the Wall
- Even If We Break
- The Vanishing Stair
- The Edge of Anything
- Dangerous Alliance
- This Is My Brain In Love
- The Light in Hidden Places
Fiction Picture Books
Nonfiction Picture Books
- Honeybee
- The Fabled Life of Aesop
- The Boy Who Dreamed of Infinity
- The Imaginaries
- Girl on a Motorcycle
- Child of St. Kilda