Books of 2020
One good thing to come out of this year is that, in the absence of travel or social gatherings, I had a lot more time for reading! My book club moved to a Zoom format for the year but we continued to meet every month and our membership grew. I supported our local bookstores by placing regular orders for curbside pickup, and probably spent more money on books this year than any year previously. In the midst of the political and societal events of the year, I felt very inspired to dive into some important nonfiction and to expand my awareness and perspectives. At the same time, I also found myself needing a break from reality sometimes and craving a suspenseful mystery or a tender love story. Needless to say, my book list this year was eclectic and vibrant (maybe the only thing that was so this year!).
I had a really hard time narrowing down my favorites, but here are the ones that stuck with me. I bring you my Top 20 titles of 2020...
Apeirogon, by Colum McCann
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot, by Mikki Kendall
The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai
Caste: The Origins of our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo
A Pull of the Stars, by Emma Donoghue
Sula, by Toni Morrison
My Dark Vanessa, by Kate Elizabeth Russell
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein
Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue
The Most Fun We've Ever Had, by Claire Lombardo
The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett
Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo
How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
The Book of Longings, by Sue Monk Kidd
Beyond the Point, by Claire Gibson
Red Lotus, by Chris Bohjalian
Such a Fun Age, by Kiley Reid
The Last Romantics, by Tara Conklin
A Promised Land, by Barack Obama
Here are some of my reading goals for 2021:
And finally, 21 titles I look forward to reading in 2021....
Homeland Elegies, by Ayad Akhtar
Crosshairs, by Catherine Hernandez
A Good Neighborhood, by Therese Anne Fowler
American Spy, by Lauren Wilkinson
Want, by Lynn Steger Srong
This Close to Okay, by Leesa Cross-Smith
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White America, by Ijeoma Oluo
Little Eyes, by Samanta Schweblin
Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi
Dog Flowers: A Memoir, by Danielle Geller
Jazz, by Toni Morrison
Children of the Land, by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
The Blithedale Romance, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary, by Sasha Geffen
The Great Pretenders: The Undercover Mission that Changed Our Understanding of Madness, by Susannah Cahalan
Leave the World Behind, by Rumaan Alam
Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart
Blindness, by Jose Saramago
The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah
The Chosen and the Beautiful, by Nghi Vo
Outlawed, by Anna North
For the full list of my 2020 reads, visit my Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/26924259-betsy-ross
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