Read in 2020

Check out what I read in 2020! These are broken down by genre then author for easy navigating.


Fiction

Abbi Waxman
– The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Agatha Christie
– Evil Under the Sun
Murder on the Orient Express
– The Clocks
– The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
– The Pale Horse
– Three Act Tragedy

Alafair Burke
– The Better Sister

Alison Lurie
– Foreign Affairs

Alix E. Harrow
– The Ten Thousand Doors of January

Allison Pataki
The Traitor’s Wife

Amanda Copley
– The Orchardist

Andrew David MacDonald
– When We Were Vikings

Ann Weisgarber
The Promise

Anna Gilbert
– A Hint of Witchcraft

Annie Proulx
– Barkskins

Anthony Doerr
– All The Light We Cannot See

Beatriz Williams
– The Secret Life of Violet Grant

Casey McQuiston
– Red, White and Royal Blue

Catherine Steadman
– Something in the Water

Chandler Baker
Whisper Network

Chanel Cleeton
– The Last Train to Key West

Christina Lauren
My Favorite Half-Night Stand
The Honey Don’t List

Colleen Oakley
You Were There Too

Craig Davidson
– The Saturday Night Ghost Club

Daniel Wallace
– Extraordinary Adventures

Donna Everhart
The Moonshiner’s Daughter

Elin Hilderbrand
– 28 Summers
Summer of ’69

Elizabeth Gilbert
– The Signature of All Things

Emily Henry
Beach Read

Emma Lord
– Tweet Cute

Francesca Serritella
Ghosts of Harvard

Gabby Noone
– Layoverland

Glen Duncan
– The Last Werewolf

Grady Hendrix
– The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

Hazel Gaynor
– The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter

Helena Hunting
– Meet Cute
The Good Luck Charm

Henry James
The Turn of the Screw

Ivan Doig
The Bartender’s Tale

J. Ryan Stradal
– The Lager Queen of Minnesota

Jane Healey
The Animals at Lockwood Manor

Jenny Colgan
The Bookshop on the Corner

Jess Kidd
Things in Jars

Jess Walter
Beautiful Ruins

John Jakes
The Bastard

Josie Silver
One Day in December
The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd

Julia Sonneborn
By the Book

Karen Dukess
– The Last Book Party

Karen Russell
Swamplandia!

Karma Brown
Recipe for a Perfect Wife

Kate Clayborn
– Love Lettering

Kate Manning
My Notorious Life

Ken Follett
A Place Called Freedom

Kim Michele Richardson
– The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Lara Prescott
The Secrets We Kept

Leigh Bardugo
King of Scars

Leila Meacham
– Titans

Lily King
Writers and Lovers

Lisa Jewell
The Family Upstairs
The Girls in the Garden

Lisa Klein
– Ophelia

Liv Constantine
The Last Mrs. Parrish

Lyssa Kay Adams
The Bromance Book Club

Madeleine L’Engle
– The Other Side of the Sun

Maggie O’Farrell
Hamnet

Margaret George
Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles
The Confessions of Young Nero

Mary Beth Keane
– Ask Again, yes

Mary Kubica
The Other Mrs.

Max Brooks
Devolution

Meryl Wilsner
– Something to Talk About

Nadine Brandes
Romanov

Paula Brackston
The Little Shop of Found Things
Secrets of the Chocolate House
The Witch’s Daughter

Paulette Jiles
– News of the World

Peter Swanson
Eight Perfect Murders

Philippa Gregory
The White Queen

Priscilla Oliveras
– Island Affair

Rebecca Harrington
Sociable

Richard Roper
How Not to Die Alone

Robin McKinley
– Sunshine

Ruth Ware
The Woman in Cabin 10

Sara Gruen
Water for Elephants

Sara Sliger
– Take Me Apart

Sarah Blake
The Postmistress

Sarah Gailey
Magic for Liars

Sarah J. Maas
– A Court of Thorns and Roses
A Court of Mist and Fury
– A Court of Wings and Ruin
– A Court of Frost and Starlight
– House of Earth and Blood

Sarah Morgenthaler
The Tourist Attraction

Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Silvia Moreno-Garcia
– Gods of Jade and Shadow
Mexican Gothic
– Signal to Noise

Sophie Hannah
Perfect Little Children

Sophie Kinsella
I Owe You One
I’ve Got Your Number
– Wedding Night

Stephanie Dray
– Lily of the Nile
– Song of the Nile

Daughters of the Nile

Susan Choi
Trust Exercise

Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Fleishman is in Trouble

Tommy Greenwald
– Game Changer

Tracy Grant
Secrets of a Lady

Veronica Henry
How to Find Love in a Bookshop


Nonfiction

Alastair Bonnett
– Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies

Allan Lazar, Dan Karlan & Jeremy Salter
– The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived

Anne de Courcy
– The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

Benjamin Tallmadge
– Memoirs of Col. Benjamin Tallmadge

Bill Bryson
– In a Sunburned Country

Bill Price
– Lost Civilizations: A History of Vanished Empires and Forgotten Cultures

Brian Kilmeade
– George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

C. Brian Kelly
– Best Little Stories from the American Revolution

Caitlin Doughty
– Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions From Tiny Mortals About Death

Cara Robertson
– The Trial of Lizzie Borden

Carl M. Cannon
– On This Date: From the Pilgrims to Today, Discovering America One Day at a Time

Carrie Fisher
– Wishful Drinking

Cheryl Strayed
– Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Colin Jost
– A Very Punchable Face

Dan Carlin
– The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

Daniel Smith
– 50 Strategies that Changed History

Dulcie M. Ashdown
– Royal Murders: Hatred, Revenge and the Seizing of Power

ed. Bethanne Patrick
– The Books that Changed My Life

ed. Judith Ridge
– The Book that Made Me

Elizabeth Little
– Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America’s Languages

Gerald Durrell
– My Family and Other Animals

Hallie Rubenhold
– The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
– The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce

Hugh Aldersey-Williams
– Periodic Tales: The Curious Lives of the Elements

James Maloney
– 100 Headlines that Changed the World

Jenny Slate
– Little Weirds

Jessica Pan
– Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: An Introvert’s Year of Living Dangerously

Jill Lepore
– These Truths: A History of the United States

John André
– Major André’s Journal

John Ashdown-Hill
– Royal Marriage Secrets: Consorts & Concubines, Bigamists & Bastards

John O’Bryan
– A History of Weapons:Crossbows, Caltrops, Catapults & Lots of Other Things that Can Seriously Mess You Up

Jon Krakauer
– Into the Wild

Kenneth L. Feder
– Archaeological Oddities: A Field Guide to Forty Claims of Lost Civilizations, Ancient Visitors, and Other Strange Sites in North America

Leonie Frieda
– The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women, Power, and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance, 1427-1527

Lydia Kang
– Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

Malachy Tallack
– The Undiscovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries, Phantoms and Fakes

Mark Bailey & Edward Hemingway
– Hemingway and Bailey’s Bartending Guide to Great American Writers

Mark Stein
– How the States Got Their Shapes

Matthew Jacob & Mark Jacob
– What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food and Fame

Nathaniel Philbrick
– Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution

Richard Kreitner
– Booked: A Traveler’s Guide to Literary Locations Around the World

Richard Kurin
– The Smithsonian’s History of America in 101 Objects

Richard Shenkman
– Legends, Lies, & Cherished Myths of World History

Richard Vine
– The Curious World of Wine: Facts, Legends, and Lore About the Drink We Love So Much

Robert Moor
– On Trails: An Exploration

Robert Whitaker
– The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale Of Love, Murder, And Survival In The Amazon

Scott Wallace
– The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribes

Steve Brusatte
– The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

Susan Casey
– Woman Heroes of the American Revolution

Susan Swain
– First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women

Thomas C. Foster
– Twenty-Five Books that Shaped America

W. Scott Poole
– Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting

Walter R. Borneman
– American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution

William Sitwell
– A History of Food in 100 Recipes

Anna Kendrick
– Scrappy Little Nobody
yes I missed this while I was up in the start of the alphabet, I’m not moving all but two of these down manually


Drama, Poetry, & More

Edward Lee
Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting-Pot Cuisine
Culinary

Horace
The Odes (Books I-IV)
Poetry

Margaret Atwood
The Penelopiad
Mythology/Lore

Mary Oliver
Blue Horses
Poetry

Multiple Authors
Pocket Book of Poetry
Poetry

Nikita Gill
Fierce Fairytales
Poetry

Pam Brandon
Disney Festivals Cookbook
Culinary
it’s not just recipes there’s also information about the festivals OKAY it counts

Robert Frost
Selected Poems
Poetry

William Shakespeare
Richard III
Drama


I recommend most of these works – no point in wasting time reading a bad book. But some I tried and tried and could not power through… any questions about if I think something’s worth the time, just ask!