The coronavirus pandemic and its attendant shutdown has had a way of warping one’s sense of time—alternately making the days go by in a blink or pass grudgingly slowly. One would be forgiven for forgetting what happened last week, let alone back in February. But even during a different sort of year, it’s easy to miss all the new books worthy of one’s attention.

So we’re taking this mid-year check-in as an opportunity to highlight some of our favorite underrated books of the year so far, “underrated” being the most subjective of terms. Many of these books have been covered widely (though not yet here), while this may be the first time you’re hearing about others. Either way, here are a handful of books published in the first half of 2020 that we think deserve a little more attention.

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