My 10 favourite books of 2020
Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash 2020 was the Year of the Rat according to the Chinese zodiac, and it’s certainly been the year of the rat for me. In English we call avid readers ‘bookworms’, named after the creepy crawlies that munch their way through precious paperbacks and hefty tomes alike. But in Spanish the term is ‘ratón de biblioteca’, which technically means library mouse but hey, it’s close enough. My point is I read a lot in 2020, and I wanted to share my 10 favourite books with you in case you’re in need of some inspiration for your 2021 reading lists (and also to refresh my memory since it was a long year). Non fiction Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari I realise I’m late to the party, but this book is an absolute eye-opener. Harari takes the reader on a journey through the history of our species, looking at the cognitive revolution, the agricultural revolution, the unification of humankind and the scientific revolution in turn. He’s a brillian...