My original goal for 2020 was 40 books. I thought it clever that 20 + 20 = 40 so that was my goal.
Then a pandemic hit and I suddenly was spending a lot more time at home. At the end of the year I ended up reading 52 books.
In 2020 I also set a goal of writing a blog post review of every book I read. It might be January 17th 2021, but I finally finished.
So here you have it folks, these are all the books I read in 2020 – each with their own individual review. I will NOT be doing that this year and I’ll have a post soon on why, but this was a fun writing adventure. It kept me creating in a year that was very hard to be creative (for me anyway) so I’m thankful for that.
On Being Human by Jennifer Pastiloff
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
All That You Leave Behind by Erin Lee Carr
A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
The Overstory by Richard Powers
The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
Becoming Better Grownups by Brad Montague
The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock
The Librarian of Auschwitz by Antonio Iturbe
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiley
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
The Weight of a Thousand Oceans by Jillian Webster
Sorry I’m Late I Didn’t Want to Come by Jessica Pan
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
One by One by Ruth Ware
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Final Girls by Riley Sager
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
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