So I read 86 books this year, which feels genuinely mind-blowing since I didn’t feel like I read as much as I could have given my newfound pandemic free time. As usual, mystery books dominated my feed, but there was a lot more variety from last years list. I’m particularly proud that the majority of books I read where by women and/or people of color. The italicized titles are my from my building’s awesome book club. This year we really knocked it out of the park with some amazing stories. I’m hoping to put together a list of my favorites soon.
To keep this post from being an actual novel, I didn’t include any descriptions but if you want a review just click the title to re-direct to Goodreads.
Enjoy!
– Aheli
January 2020
| Blindsighted | Karin Slaughter | Mystery | B |
| Beyond Reach | Karin Slaughter | Mystery | B |
| Triptych | Karin Slaughter | Mystery | B |
| Cop Town | Karin Slaughter | Mystery | B |
| Faithless | Karin Slaughter | Mystery | B |
February 2020
| Indelible | Karin Slaughter | Mystery | B |
| Good Girls Lie | JT Ellison | Mystery | B |
| Kisscut | Karin Slaughter | Mystery | B |
March 2020
| Tell Me Everything | Cambria Brockman | Mystery | B |
| Disappearing Earth | Julia Phillips | Fiction | A |
| Two Can Keep a Secret | Karen M. McManus | Mystery | B |
| The Thousandth Floor | Katherine McGee | Fiction | D |
| Pretty Girls | Karin Slaughter | Thriller | B |
April 2020
| Heaven, My Home | Attica Locke | Mystery | A |
| Open Book | Jessica Simpson | Memoir | B+ |
| A Faint Cold Fear | Karin Slaughter | Thriller | B |
| Behind Closed Doors | B.A. Paris | Thriller | B |
| The Last Mrs. Parrish | Liv Constantine | Thriller | B+ |
| The Forty Rules of Love | Eli Shafak | Fiction | A |
May 2020
| The Island of Sea Women | Lisa See | Fiction | A |
| The Story of a Goat | Perumal Murugan | Fiction | B+ |
| The Dutch House | Ann Patchett | Fiction | A |
| To the Elephant Graveyard | Tarquin Hall | Nonfiction | A |
| Wow, No Thank You. | Samantha Irby | Memoir | B |
June 2020
| Why are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria | Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum | Social Justice | A |
| Killing Rage: Ending Racism | Bell Hooks | Social Justice | A |
| Apeirogon | Colum McCann | Nonfiction | A |
| In the Name of Truth | Viveca Sten | Mystery | B |
| The Turn of the Key | Ruth Ware | Mystery | B |
| So You Want to Talk About Race | Ijeoma Oluo | Social Justice | A |
| The Silent Patient | Alex Michaelidies | Mystery | B |
| How to Be Less Stupid About Race | Crystal M. Fleming | Social Justice | B |
| One of Us is Next | Karen M. McManus | Mystery | B |
| Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstrauation | Elissa Stein, Susan Kim | Nonfiction | B+ |
July 2020
| Thicker than Blood | Mike Omer | Mystery | B+ |
| Her Final Words | Brianna Labuskes | Mystery | B |
| Set for Life | Scott Trench | Nonfiction | B |
| The Intelligent Investor | Benjamin Graham | Nonfiction | B |
| How to Invest in Real Esate | Joshua Dorkin | Nonfiction | B |
| The Yellow House | Sarah M. Broome | Fiction | B |
| The E-Myth Revisited | Michael E. Gerber | Nonfiction | B |
| How to Win Friends & Influence People | Dale Carnegie | Nonfiction | B |
| The Glass Hotel | Emily St. John Mandel | Fiction | A |
August 2020
| The Night Manager | John LeCarre | Fiction | B |
| Ninth House | Leight Bardugo | Science Fiction | D |
| The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Taylor Jenkins Reid | Fiction | A |
| Girl Gone Mad | Avery Bishop | Mystery | C |
| The Art of Hearing Heartbeats | Jan-Philipp Sendker | Fiction | A |
September 2020
| Unorthodox | Deborah Feldman | Nonfiction | B+ |
| The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennet | Fiction | A |
| Majesty | Katharine McGee | Fiction | B |
| The Other Mrs. | Mary Kubica | Mystery | B |
October 2020
| How to Do Nothing | Jenny Odell | Nonfiction | B+ |
| The Home Edit | Clea Sherar, Joanna Teplin | Nonfiction | B |
| Searching for Coach Taylor | Mindy Kaling | Nonfiction | B+ |
| Once Upon a Time in Silverlake | Mindy Kaling | Nonfiction | B+ |
| Big Shot | Mindy Kaling | Nonfiction | B+ |
| Eat a Little Better | Sam Kass | NonFiction | A |
| When No One is Watching | Alyssa Cole | Mystery | A |
| Sex and Vanity | Kevin Kwan | Fiction | B- |
| A Walk in the Woods | Bill Bryson | NonFiction | B |
| Invested | Danielle Town | NonFiction | A |
| Long Distance Real Estate Investing | David Green | NonFiction | B |
| The Book on Rental Property Investing | Brandon Turner | NonFiction | B |
November 2020
| The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Taylor Jenkins Reid | Fiction | A |
| Dirt | Bill Buford | NonFiction | B- |
| Cooked | Michael Pollan | Nonfiction | A |
| House Hacking | Craig Curelop | Nonfiction | C+ |
| 4 Hour Work Week | Timothy Ferris | Nonfiction | B |
| The Book on Managing Rental Properities | Brandon Turner | Nonfiction | B |
| ABCs of Buying Rental Property | Ken McElroy | Nonfiction | B+ |
| What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow | Frank Gallinelli | Nonfiction | B |
December 2020
| A Promised Land | Barack Obama | NonFiction | A |
| Magnolia Table | Joanna Gaines | NonFiction | B+ |
| Pretty Things | Janelle Brown | Mystery | B+ |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Betty Smith | Fiction | A |
| Give Me Your Hand | Megan Abbott | Mystery | C |
| Untamed | Glennon Doyle | NonFiction | B+ |
| The Silent Wife | Karin Slaughter | Mystery | B |
| The Talented Miss Farwell | Emily Gray Tedrow | Mystery | A |
| She Said | Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey | NonFiction | A |
| The Cousins | Karen M. McManus | Mystery | B+ |
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