I Read 160 Books This Year. These are My 23 Favorites
2020 was a challenging year in many ways, but with COVID keeping us in our homes, I was more than happy to curl up or walk on the treadmill with a good book. 2020 did not disappoint.
Below is a list of the books that received five stars.
A book gets five stars if it is either brilliantly or creatively written or if it changed my life in a permanent way. They are listed in the order that I read them.
If you are interested in learning about some of the other books I read, I’d be happy to share them. Also, if you have any great recommendations, please leave them in the comments. Happy reading!
All books can be purchased from Amazon by clicking the book title.
NON-FICTION
Late Bloomers – The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement – Rich Karlgaard
Permanent Record – Edward Snowden
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home – Tembi Locke
Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis – Ada Calhoun
Yet somehow for this generation of women, the belief that girls could do anything morphed into a directive that they must do everything.
Ada Calhoun
The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America – Drew Pinsky
How to Be an Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You – Deepak Chopra
Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family – Mitch Albom
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection fo My Hasidic Roots – Deborah Feldman
FICTION
The Fault in Our Stars – John Green
I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, this would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.
John Green
The Stationary Shop – Marjan Kamali
After the End – Clare Mackintosh
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
When you’re given an opportunity to change your life, be ready to do whatever it takes to make it happen.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Dutch House – Ann Patchett
Hey, Kiddo – Jarrett J. Korsoczka
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) – L.M. Montgomery
The House in the Cerulean Sea – T. J. Klune
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I haven’t heard of some of these. Now my book list is growing faster than I can knock them out!
I’m right there with you. My wishlist at the library is 911 books. My wishlist at Amazon is in the thousands. I think I need a sabbatical. 🙂