The more that you read the more things you will know...

... The more that you learn the more places you'll go. Well, not in 2020! But in these pandemic times I did in fact read and learn much more than in a normal year - 60 books in 2020. Here's the list! I've broken them out into 5 categories: Top Five, Amazing re-reads, Loved it, Liked it, and It was fine. And if I reviewed the book at some point on this blog, I've linked to the post.

Top Five

• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein

• The Death of Vivek Oji, by Akwaeke Emezi

• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, by V.E. Schwab

• Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love & Loss, by Margaret Renkl

• The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett

Amazing re-reads

• The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson

• The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins

Loved it

• Bellweather Rhapsody, by Kate Racculia

• Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability & Making Space, by Amanda Leduc

• The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, & The Stone Sky, by N.K. Jemisin

• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, by Hallie Rubenhold

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities & the Modern World, by Steven Johnson

• Jaw, by Albert Abonado

• Luster, by Raven Leilani

• The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead

• Ninth House, by Leigh Bardugo

• Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, & Other Essays from a Nervous System, by Sonya Huber

• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder & Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe

• The Yellow House, by Sarah Broom

Liked it

• 52 Blue, by Leslie Jamison

• A Kind of Freedom, by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

• The Astonishing Color of After, by Emily X.R. Pan

• The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, by Suzanne Collins

• Euphoria, by Lily King

• Evvie Drake Starts Over, by Linda Holmes

• Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernadine Evaristo

• In the House in the Dark of the Woods, by Laird Hunt

• Moon Over Buffalo, by Ken Ludwig (play)

• Name All the Animals, by Alison Smith

• Pax, by Sarah Pennypacker

• The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna, by Juliet Grames

• So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo

• Speak No Evil, by Uzodinma Iweala

• Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts, by Kate Racculia

• Twelve Years a Slave, by Solomon Northup

• Via del Paradiso, by Anne Coon

• Warm Up, Vicious, & Vengeful, by V.E. Schwab

It was fine

• A Window Opens, by Elisabeth Egan

• The Art Forger, by B.A. Shapiro

• Calling Dr. Laura, by Nicole Georges

• Disoriental, by Negar Djavadi

• Exhalation, by Ted Chiang

• Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• In the Next Room (The Vibrator Play), by Sarah Rul (play)

• The Italian Secretary, by Caleb Carr

• Judas, by Amos Oz

• Men in Boats, by Jaclyn Backhaus (play)

• Musicophilia: Tales of Music & the Brain, by Oliver Sacks

• The Night Tiger, by Yangsza Choo

• The Scribe of Siena, by Melodie Winawer

• Silver Sparrow, by Tayari Jones

• Sweet Little Lies, by Caz Frear

• We Should All be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• Women Talking, by Miriam Toews

There's only one book I really disliked this year. Usually if I don't like something after a while, I just stop reading it. But this one was for book club and it's by an author I've really enjoyed in the past, so I kept going. Sadly, I can't even put it in the category of "It was fine," though I know a lot of other people loved it. After all, "Not every good book is meant for every good reader, just as not every marvelous man is meant for every marvelous woman." - Amos Oz

• The Starless Sea, by Erin Morgenstern

Now I need to get started on creating my 2021 Reading Challenge list!