As the new year begins, lists, recounting the best selections from the previous year, emerge.

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Leticia Toraci on MY WRITER’S JOURNEY shared their favorite reads of the year.

My Favorite Books Of 2020 Part One: Science fiction starts with Kameron Hurley’s MEET ME IN THE FUTURE.

This was a page-turner, interesting story collection. The stories were very original and I could not put it down. I surely will want to read more books by this author in the near future.

My Favorite Books Of 2020 Part Two: Fantasy And Other Genres mentions Brandon Sanderson’s THE EMPEROR’S SOUL and The Way of Kings.

Sanderson’s books are Epic in every sense, with fascinating story worlds and awesome, multi-layered characters. I plan to read all his books, I repeat, all of them! I hope to read faster than the velocity in which he writes masterpieces, but I probably won’t manage that.

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On REDDIT r/TrueLit, gentell_wherewithal includes THE VERY BEST OF CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN among What were your top reads of 2020?

I liked her novels but having this anthology made it clear that while she is happy to present her ‘best’ as working within a pretty narrow range of subject matter and themes – sad lesbians with broken relationships looking out at the sea, symbolic or literal mermaids, Lovecraftian body horror – she has nonetheless shown an ability to do all that in surprisingly different ways over a long career.

The Polish site POLTERGEIST shared that THE SWORD & SORCERY ANTHOLOGY, edited by David G Hartwell and Jacob Weisman, was one of their favorite discoveries of the year.

Another anthology, this time fantastic. A dozen or so short stories, most of which range from fairly decent to  excellent . Howard, Martin, Moorcook (Drakestar – thanks for the note on Chaos – I knew I’d seen that name somewhere) and some others. I didn’t like only two stories, the rest – Cossack.

Translation from Polish, courtesy of Google