Books I Read in 2020

Here’s a list of all the books I read or listened to in 2020. Click the link to read my review and purchase the book! (I started reviews midway through the year so the first 26 books don’t have reviews 🙂 )

  1. When Less Becomes More by Emily Ley
  2. How Soccer Explains the World by Franklin Foer
  3. Heartland by Sarah Smarsh (on Audible)
  4. Maid by Stephanie Land (on Audible)
  5. Come Matter Here by Hannah Brencher
  6. The Red and the Blue by Steve Kornacki (on Audible)
  7. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
  8. The Fall of the House of FIFA by David Conn (on Audible)
  9. Southernmost by Silas House
  10. Glass House by Brian Alexander (on Audible)
  11. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
  12. The Club by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg (on Audible)
  13. The Impossible First by Colin O’Brady (on Audible)
  14. Everybody Always by Bob Goff
  15. Sandworm by Andy Greenberg (on Audible)
  16. The Adventurer’s Son by Roman Dial (on Audible)
  17. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan (on Audible)
  18. Us Against You by Frederik Backman
  19. The Unexpected Spy by Tracy Walder (on Audible)
  20. Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
  21. The Nickel Boys by Colton Whitehead
  22. To the Edges of the Earth by Edward Larson (on Audible)
  23. Love is Not Enough by Mark Manson (on Audible, exclusive to Audible)
  24. Tornado Weather by Deborah Kennedy
  25. A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler
  26. Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
  27. The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer
  28. The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson (on Audible)
  29. The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
  30. Beach Read by Emily Henry
  31. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger
  32. The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Dierdre Mask (on Audible)
  33. Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (on Audible)
  34. The Yellow House by Sarah Broom
  35. Atomic Habits by James Clear (on Audible)
  36. The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
  37. Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg (on Audible)
  38. Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich (on Audible)
  39. In the Enemy’s House by Howard Blum (on Audible)
  40. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
  41. Code Talker by Chester Nez (on Audible)
  42. White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo (on Audible)
  43. How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper
  44. The Dragons, The Giant, The Women by Wayétu Moore (on Audible)
  45. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
  46. The Last Flight by Julie Clark
  47. A Burning by Megha Majumdar
  48. A New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (on Audible)
  49. Untamed by Glennon Doyle
  50. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (on Audible)
  51. Godshot by Chelsea Bieker
  52. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
  53. Walking on the Ceiling by Aysegül Savas
  54. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo
  55. All Adults Here by Emma Straub
  56. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (on Libro.fm)
  57. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
  58. Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
  59. Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West
  60. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (on Libro.fm)
  61. Atomic Love by Jennie Fields
  62. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
  63. Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and all the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women edited by Lizzie Skurnick
  64. The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
  65. This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
  66. The Organ Thieves by Chip Jones (on Libro.fm)
  67. With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
  68. Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl (on Libro.fm)
  69. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  70. Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson (on Audible)
  71. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (on Audible)
  72. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
  73. Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
  74. The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire by John Eisenberg (on Audible)
  75. In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
  76. The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
  77. Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami (on Audible)
  78. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
  79. Ties That Tether by Jane Igharo
  80. White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad (on Audible)
  81. Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
  82. The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
  83. The Mothers by Brit Bennett
  84. Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall (on Audible)
  85. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
  86. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher (on Audible)
  87. The Weekend by Charlotte Wood
  88. Memorial by Bryan Washington
  89. The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty (on Libro.fm)
  90. Finding Sisu: In Search of Courage, Strength, and Happiness the Finnish Way by Katja Pantzar
  91. Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
  92. The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown (on Audible)
  93. A Room Called Earth by Madeleine Ryan
  94. Normal People by Sally Rooney
  95. A Promised Land by Barack Obama (on Audible)
  96. Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
  97. In A Holidaze by Christina Lauren
  98. The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek (on Libro.fm)
  99. This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith
  100. Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts by Jennie Allen
  101. Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees
  102. When All Is Said by Anne Griffin
  103. Don’t Overthink It by Anne Bogel

Last updated: 12/31/20

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