Everything I Read in 2020
January 7, 2021 / Books

As the daughter of a librarian, I am a proud reader of fiction, memoir, poetry, non-fiction, YA, and children’s books. Last year, I read 58 books in total, and in 2020 came in at 44 books total. I love seeing what other people have been reading, so I wanted to share my favorites of the year with you.
I chose to break this list into two categories (fiction and non-fiction), and rank them in order of my favorites, to my least favorites. Hard task, I know! To keep it shorter, I am not listing a description of each book, but Goodreads is a great resource to learn more about each book listed in this post.
Keep reading for a list of 44 of the books I read in 2020, ranked!
Fiction
- Circe
- The Nightingale
- The Great Alone
- The Immortalists
- Lilac Girls
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane
- The Illness Lesson
- The Book of Two Ways
- The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories
- The Wives
- The Vanishing Half
- An Anonymous Girl
- Followers
- This is Pleasure
- The Power
- Vessel
- The Round House
- The Kiss Quotient
- The Bell Jar
- Red, White & Royal Blue
- Such a Fun Age
- Behold the Dreamers
- Authority
- Jack and the Ghost
- The Book of Memory
Non-Fiction
- In This Timeless Time
- Born a Crime
- The Fire This Time
- Life and Freedom on Death Row
- Dogs Are People, Too
- Poorlier Drawn Lines
- You Can Only Yell At Me for One Thing at a Time
- Start With Why
- The Constitution of the United States of America
- Three Women
- Open Book
- Bad Feminist
- Humanimal
- Dream Big Dreams
- This Book is Anti-Racist
- Navigate Your Stars
- On Tyranny
- The Glass Castle
- The Self-Care Solution
There you have it! On each list, I would say 1-5 are must-reads and the rest you could give a shot….or not. For 2021, I am starting with the third book in the Southern Reach Trilogy: Acceptance.