GABRIEL HART’S TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2020

BY: GABRIEL HART Like many of you, I read more books in 2020 than any year of my life. Whisked from work and put on disability back in March, I had the time to do it, propelled by a panic that I didn't know if I'd ever get this much free time again. So, I tried to survive this year by not wasting a single moment — despite the occasional dizzy spells when realizing there was a thousands of people dying out there or countless cities on fire outside my window (not to mention when my own rural town almost burned in August), which would sometime whisk the whole morning, afternoon, or night from me. At any rate, there was more time to pay more attention to what was out there, literarily. Add that with being recruited to contribute occasionally for EconoClash and write monthly Lit Reactor, I got some additional opportunities to not just reflect deeper into what would become my favorite books of the year but hang out in the minds of those authors for some even dizzier spells. Here'