Janeé and Rebecca, with the Book Chat team, join host Aaron to chat about their favorite books this year. What made them laugh? What made them cry? What made 2020 a great year for reading? Listen to the podcast to find out, and be sure to check out the show notes to see other books they loved that they didn't discuss.

• Picture Books
  • I Am Every Good Thing, by Derrick Barnes, illustrated by Gordon C. James
  • Anti-Racist Baby, by Ibram X. Kandi
  • We Will Rock Our Classmates, by Ryan T. Higgins
• Middle Grade
  • Class Act, by Jerry Craft
  • Twins, by Varian Johnson
  • The Talk: Conversations About Race, Love, and Truth, by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson
• Teen Fiction
  • Cemetery Boys, by Aiden Thomas
  • Clap When You Land, by Elizabeth Acevedo
  • Long Way Down: The Graphic Novel, by Jason Reynolds
  • The Magic Fish, by Trung Le Nguyen

• This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar
• The Magic Fish, by Trung Le Nguyen
• The House in the Cerulean Sea, by T.J. Klune
• The Only Good Indians, by Stephen Graham Jones
• Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Are You Listening?, by Tillie Walden
• One to Watch, by Kate Stayman-London
• Frogcatchers, by Jeff Lemire
• Cemetery Boys, by Aiden Thomas
• All My Mother’s Lovers, by Ilana Masad