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 Nobodyyes 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
Culinaryit’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!