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