It is finished! I reached my goal to read 100 books this year. I will write a post after the holidays with my top favorites, but for today- this is the full list of books I read in 2020.
- There There, Freddie Orange
- Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved, Kate Bowler
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
- An American Marriage, Tayari Jones
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers, Fred Rogers
- Heavy, Kiese Laymon
- Traveling Mercies, Anne Lamott
- The Truth About Animals, Lucy Cooke
- Shrill, Lindy West
- Still, Lauren Winner
- The End of the Affair, Graham Greene
- The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brian
- Lincoln In the Bardo, George Saunders
- The Tattoo Artist of Auchwitz, Heather Morris
- Untamed, Glennon Doyle
- The Explosive Child, Dr. Ross Greene
- Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert
- An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor
- Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo
- Circe, Madeline Miller
- The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- No Bad Kids, Janet Lansbury
- Wolfpack, Abby Wambach
- The Dutch House, Ann Patchett
- The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down, Haemin Sunim
- The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood
- Mennonite in a Little Black Dress, Ronda Janzen
- Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline
- Finding Chika, Mitch Albom
- Normal People, Sally Rooney
- How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay
- Why We Can’t Sleep, Ada Calhoun
- The Witches Are Coming, Lindy West
- Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
- Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham
- Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher
- Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher
- Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology, Leah Remini
- The State of Affairs, Esther Perel
- When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
- The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying, Nina Riggs
- You Can’t Touch My Hair, Phoebe Robinson
- Raising Human Beings, Dr. Ross Greene
- In Pieces, Sally Field
- Why Not Me, Mindy Kaling
- White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
- I’m Still Here, Austin Channing Brown
- Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation, Latasha Morrison
- The Rainbow Comes and Goes, Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt
- Me and White Supremacy, Layla Saad
- Behold the Dreamers, Imbolo Mbue
- Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
- Before We Were Yours, Lisa Wingate
- Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng
- Euphoria, Lily King
- The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
- 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Elif Shafak
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
- The Book of Longings– Sue Monk Kidd
- Hillbilly Elegy, J. D. Vance
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, Lori Gottlieb
- Becoming Dutchess Goldblatt: A Memoir, Anonymous
- Little Weirds, Jenny Slate
- Night Boat to Tangier, Kevin Barry
- Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls, David Sedaris
- Small Mercies, Eddie Joyce
- The Incendiaries, R. O. Kwon
- Tinkers, Paul Harding
- Adrift, Tami Oldham Ashcraft
- Less, Andrew Sean Greer
- Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey
- The New One, Mike Birbiglia
- The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
- Long Way Down, Jason Reynolds
- I Killed Zoe Spanos, Kit Frick
- The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
- Writers and Lovers, Lily King
- Jack, Marilynne Robinson
- Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu
- Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell
- Monogamy, Sue Miller
- Calypso, David Sedaris
- Unlearn, Humble the Poet
- Nothing to See Here, Kevin Wilson
- The Overstory, Richard Powers
- Deacon King Kong, James McBride
- Sisters, Daisy Johnson
- Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982, Cho Nam-Joo, Jamie Chang, translator
- A Children’s Bible, Lydia Millet
I included 10 children’s books in my list of 100. Though I read dozens of children’s books each week, these selections had a huge impact on our year. Because of these books: we successfully potty trained our youngest, adopted a cat, started to talk about our feelings with clarity, increased sharing, handled a mouse issue in the pantry, dreamed big dreams about the future, and expanded our imagination about God. These are the 10 kid books that made the 100 list this year:
91. Mr. Putter and Tabby Pour the Tea, Cynthia Ryland and Arthur Howard
92. Can I Be Your Dog, Troy Cummings
93. In My Heart, Jo Witek
94. Where’s the Poop? Julie Markes
95. Candle Walk: A Bedtime Prayer to God, Karin Holsinger Sherman
96. Fancy Nancy: Tea for Two, Jane O’Connor
97. A Visitor for Bear, Bonny Becker
98. Last Stop on Market Street, Matt de la Pena
99. When God Was A Little Girl, David R. Weiss
100. Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau, Jennifer Berne
