A Look Back at the Year in Books
Hello friends! It’s New Year’s Eve! Happy New Year! One of my favorite things to do on at the end of the year is to look back on the books I have read over the course of the year. This year I have separated them by genre and nominated my favorites from each category. After Favorite and Runner Up, the books are listed in no particular order So, without further ado, the books of 2020!
DNF= Did Not Finish
General Fiction
Favorite- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Runner Up- My Mother’s Chamomile by Susie Finkbeiner
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
From Darkness to Night by Michelle D. Jackson
The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
Historical Fiction
Favorite- Glory Over Everything by Kathleen Grissom
Runner Up- Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar
Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
Wish You Well by David Baldacci
The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin
Refugee by Alan Gratz
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
All Manner of Things by Susie Finkbeiner
Memoirs of a Geisha by Aurther Golden
My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
Romance
Favorite- Images of Devotion by Kate Alexander
Runner Up- Blue Skies by Catherine Anderson
Seventh Heaven by Catherine Anderson
Nineteen Letters by Jodi Perry
Annie’s Song by Catherine Anderson
A Taste of Sweetness by Kate Alexander
Mystery/Thriller/Suspense
Favorite- Black Out by Lisa Unger
Runner Up- Find Her by Lisa Gardner
Twisted Twenty- Six By Janet Evanovich
All is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker
After Anna By Lisa Scottoline
Beg For Mercy by Jami Alden
DNF- Misery by Stephan King
DNF- The Reckoning by John Grisham
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Favorite- The Group by Octavia D. Mason
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Memoirs/Biographies
Favorite- Yes, Please by Amy Poehler
Runner Up- BossyPants by Tina Fey
She Came to Slay by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kalin
Self Help
Favorite- It’s Not Supposed to be This Way by Lysa TerKeurst
Runner Up- Girl, Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis
Uninvited by Lysa TerKeurst
Racial Studies
Favorite- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Runner Up- Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
Waking Up White by Debby Irving
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Between the World and Me by Ta- Nehisi Coates
And there you have it, friends! A grand total of 43 completed books in 2020! What will 2021 bring? I look forward to seeing if I can beat that number next year!