@Cassie Strange favourites list this year, but heavily historical fiction dominated. Twilight Territory and Demon Copperfield the two best books I read. Other faves: Shanghai (a spy-ish thriller in post-war China), Our Woman in Moscow (another spy-ish book), The Devil Makes Three (well told story in Haiti), Julia (a retelling of 1984 from Julia's POV), Station Eleven (a 2011 post pandemic apocalyptic book),