Friday, January 1, 2021

New Books Read in 2020

This is the breakdown of all the new books that I read in 2020.  This is broken down by genre for adult books (any YA books that I read this year are all grouped together).  Rereads are not included in this breakdown.

Mystery/Thriller:
1. The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
2. The Other People by CJ Tudor
3. The Holdout by Graham Moore
4. Good Girls Lie by JT Ellison
5. You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
6. Hour of the Assassin by Matthew Quirk
7. The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
8. The Widow by Fiona Barton
9. The Child by Fiona Barton
10. The Whisper Man by Alex North
11. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
12. Next Girl to Die by Dea Poirier
13. A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight
14. An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena
15. Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight
16. Derailed by Mary Keliikoa
17. Beneath the Ashes by Dea Poirier
18. This is How I Lied by Heather Gudenkauf
19. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
20. Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
21. The Last Flight by Julie Clark
22. The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
23. The Shadows by Alex North
24. Once You Go This Far by Kristen Lepionka
25. The Night Swim by Megan Goldin
26. Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
27. Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell
28. The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
29. Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane
30. Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy
31. The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
32. People Like Her by Ellery Lloyd

Contemporary Fiction:
1. The Reckless Oath We Made by Bryn Greenwood
2. Minor Dramas and Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West
3. A Good Neighborhood by Therese Ann Fowler
4. The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
5. When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald
8. Happy and You Know It by Laura Hankin
9. Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
10. In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
11. 28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand
12. You and Me and Us by Alison Hammer
13. What You Wish For by Katherine Center
14. The Comeback by Ella Berman
15. The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes by Elissa R. Sloan
16. Beartown by Fredrik Backman
17. Troubles in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
18. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
19. The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman
20. This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith

Romance:
1. The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
2. Beach Read by Emily Henry
3. One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
4. The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon
5. One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
6. Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein
7. Something to Talk About by Meryl Wilsner
8. Well Played by Jen DeLuca
9. Ties That Tether by Jane Igharo
10. This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens
11. Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur
12. In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren

Literary Fiction:
1. Ask Again Yes by Mary Beth Keane
2. The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe
3. A Burning by Megha Majumdar

Historical Fiction:
1. This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
2. The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
3. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Fantasy/Sci-Fi:
1. Recursion by Blake Crouch
2. The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
3. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by VE Schwab

Memoir:
1. Notes on a Silencing by Lacy Crawford
2. Know My Name by Chanel Miller
3. I Have the Right To by Chessy Prout
4. Forever Liesl by Charmian Carr
5. The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner
6. The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya
7. The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper

Other Nonfiction:
1. The Girls by Abigail Pesta
2. Unbelievable by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong
3. What Made Maddy Run by Kate Fagan
4. She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
5. Missoula by Jon Krakauer
6. Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

Young Adult:
1. The Map From Here to There by Emery Lord
2. One of Us is Next by Karen M. McManus
3. What I Like About You by Marisa Kanter
4. All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban
5. The Summer of Impossibilities by Rachael Allen
6. The Cousins by Karen McManus

Short Story Collections:
1. The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

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