2020 Reading List

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Books read: 53

It would be an understatement to say that 2020 didn’t exactly deliver in the expectations department, but if there’s one positive I can take away it’s that I had the time to fall back in love with reading. And I fell really fucking hard.

January kicked off slowly as I ventured into a relatively new genre for me—contemporary fiction—before veering wildly back to the comfort of crime in February after reading The Pisces by Melissa Broder. I can’t even begin to describe how weird that was. Come December I dug myself into a massive Rachel Abbott hole, finally completing the Tom Douglas series and finding comfort in the familiar plot lines as the festive season passed me by. It was a nice time.

Contemporary and Young Adult Fiction also found a real place in my heart this year, too. Good to balance all the murder out, I guess.

Standout reads have to be I Am Pilgrim (which took me about two months to get through but boy, am I glad I persevered), along with The Great Believers, which had me in tears more than once.

So here we have it, my top ten plus everything else.

2020 Top Ten

1.     The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai
2.     Love and Other Words, Christina Lauren
3.     Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
4.     The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
5.     The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
6.     The Whisper Man, Alex North
7.     The Shadow Friend, Alex North
8.     I Am Pilgrim, Terry Hayes
9.     Pretty Girls, Karin Slaughter
10.  A Lonely Girl Is A Dangerous Thing, Jessie Tu

Suspense / Thriller / Crime

The Family Upstairs, Lisa Jewell
Black Lands, Belinda Bauer
I Choose You, Gayle Curtis
Last Day, Luanne Rice
Pretty Things, Janelle Brown
Creep, Jennifer Hillier
Freak, Jennifer Hillier
A Suitable Lie, Michael J Malone
When I Was You, Minka Kent
The Guest List, Lucy Foley
The One, John Marrs
No Exit, Taylor Adams
The Nothing Man, Catherine Ryan Howard
The Swap, Robyn Harding
The House Guest, Mark Edwards
Black Wood, SJI Holliday
The Safe Place, Anna Downes
Rewind, Catherine Ryan Howard
The Request, David Bell
The Nowhere Child, Christian White
Dark Places, Gillian Flynn
Never Look Back, Mary Burton
One By One, Ruth Ware
Jar of Hearts, Jennifer Hillier
What Lies Between Us, John Marrs
Before She Knew Him, Peter Swanson
Only The Innocent, Rachel Abbott
The Back Road, Rachel Abbott
Sleep Tight, Rachel Abbott
Stranger Child, Rachel Abbott
Nowhere Child, Rachel Abbott
Kill Me Again, Rachel Abbott
The Shape of Lies, Rachel Abbott
Right Behind You, Rachel Abbott
Don’t Look For Me, Wendy Walker

YA / Coming of Age Fiction

Such A Fun Age, Kiley Reid
Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton
Our Chemical Hearts, Krystal Sutherland

Contemporary Fiction

The Pisces, Melissa Broder
Five Hundred Miles From You, Jenny Colgan
Maybe In Another Life, Taylor Jenkins Reid

Non-Fiction / Memoir

Cilka’s Journey, Heather Morris
Come: A Memoir, Rita Therese

Have you read or are you planning to read any of these books? Let me know!

~ prb x