An end-of-year round up of the best fiction and non-fiction books - and podcasts - of 2020. All are my opinion and this is only a tiny selection of the really good stuff out there - but it's good. Enjoy!

We have to stop consuming stuff... but we never stop imbibing ideas. So here are some to choose from - all links to Blackwells. For obvious reasons.

Non-Fiction
'From what is to what if' by Rob Hopkins
The Trembling Warrior and others by Gill Coombs
'The Best of Times, the Worst of Times' by Paul Behrens
'How to Be More Pirate' by Alex Barker
'Doughnut Economics' by Kate Raworth (also Doughnut Economics Action Lab)
'Less is More' by Jason Hickel
'The Ocean is Alive' by Glenn Edney
'The Tao of Revolution' by Chris Taylor

Fiction:

'This is How You Lose The Time War' by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
'The Border Keeper' by Kerstin Hall
'Slough House' by Mick Herron
'Agent Running in the Field' by John le Carré
'Attack Surface' by Cory Doctorow
'Call Down the Hawk' by Maggie Stiefvater
'The Timekeeper' by Tara Sim
'In Other Lands' by Sarah Rees Brennan
'The Ten Thousand Doors of January' by Alix E Harrow
'The Left Handed Booksellers of London' by Garth Nix.
'A Deadly Education' by Naomi Novak
'Fallible Justice' by Laura Laakso
'Poison in Paris' by Robert Wilton
'The Last Protector' by Andrew Taylor
'The Angel of the Crows' by Katherine Addison

Podcasts:

Upstream hosted by Della Duncan
The Hive hosted by Nathalie Nahai
The Sustainable Futures Report by Anthony Day
A New and Ancient Story by Charles Eisenstein
'Your Undivided Attention' by Tristan Harris
'Regenerative Agriculture Podcast' by John Kempf
Farm Gate hosted by Ffinlo Costain
'Equiosity' by Alex Kurland
'Horses For Future' by Alex Kurland
Drinking from the Toilet by Hannah Brannigan

Link to Dreaming the Year Awake

All the Best of 2020: Books and Podcasts that will lift you into the new year - and beyond.