10 great books that got lost in the noise of 2020

Overlooked books of 2020 10 books worth revisiting If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. “Migrations” follows ornithologist Franny Stone as she joins with a crew of fishermen to sail up and down the unforgiving Atlantic, searching for the world’s last flock of migrating arctic terns. Books Review: A powerful climate novel reminds us that people are animals too In the beautiful if overladen “Migrations,” by Charlotte McConaghy, animals are vanishing and a troubled woman follows the last terns to Antarctica. If this sounds distant and remote, do not fear: “Drifts” is as embodied as novels come, practically vibrational as its narrator snatches her ideas out of the air and turns them into, well, “Drifts.” Books Review: Celia Paul is finally her own muse in the dazzling memoir ‘Self-Portrait’ The painter known to many as Lucian Freud’s one-time muse writes of her own muse, her mother, and provers herself a masterful writer as well. This was now the list of her dead, of everyone who had died far away from her, without her, and there was nothing she could do for them, not even die with them.” Mukasonga has been writing autobiographical stories about her upbringing and Rwanda’s genocide for years, but “Igifu” may be her brightest, most eye-opening work yet.