Books 2020

  1. Inland – Tea Obrecht (Fiction)*
  2. Fleishman is in Trouble – Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Fiction)*
  3. Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life – Louise Aronson (Non-fiction)
  4. My Year of Rest and Relaxation – Ottessa Moshfegh (Fiction)
  5. Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murat (Fiction, Translated from Japanese)
  6. The Incendiaries – R.O. Kwon (Fiction)
  7. All the Birds Singing – Evie Wyld (Fiction)
  8. Parsifal – Jim Krause (Fiction)
  9. Silence -Shusaku Endo (Fiction, Translated from Japanese)
  10. Limits to of the World – Jennifer Acker (Fiction)
  11. Number One Chinese Restaurant – Lilian Li (Fiction)
  12. The Art of My Life: The Perspective of Life Through the Eyes of An Artist – Joe Pearce (Non-Fiction/Memoir)
  13. Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo (Fiction)
  14. The Optimistic Decade – Heather Abel (Fiction)*
  15. Looking For Alaska – John Greene (Fiction)
  16. Death in Vera Cruz – Hector Aguilar Camin (Fiction)
  17. Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women who Pursued Him, and the Murder that Shocked Jazz Age America – Karen Abbott (Nonfiction)
  18. My Meteorite: or, Without the Random There Can be No New Thing – Harry Dodge (Nonfiction)
  19. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI – David Grann (Nonfiction)
  20. West with the Night – Beryl Markham (Nonfiction)
  21. Weather – Jenny Offill (Fiction)
  22. White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo (Nonfiction)
  23. Just Bats – M. Brock Fenton (Nonfiction)
  24. Marrow and Bone – Walter Kenpowski (Fiction, Translated from German)
  25. Muslim – Zahia Rahmani (Fiction, Translated from French)
  26. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley – Hannah Tinti (Fiction)
  27. Kim Jiyoung: Born in 1982: A Novel – Cho Nam-Joo (Fiction, Translated from Korean)
  28. Yellow House – Sarah Broom (Non-Fiction, Memoir)
  29. Drive You Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk (Non-Fiction, Translated from Polish)
  30. The Topeka School – Ben Lerner (Fiction)
  31. Ok, Mr. Field – Katherine Kikalea (Fiction)
  32. Where’d You Go Bernadette – Maria Semple (Fiction)
  33. The Ninth House – Anne McDermott (Fiction)
  34. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong (Fiction)
  35. Pioneer Women: Voice from the Kansas Frontier – Joanna Stratton (Non-fiction)
  36. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie (Fiction)
  37. Priest Daddy – Patricia Lockwood (Non-fiction, Memoir)*
  38. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowland (Fiction)
  39. There There – Tommy Orange (Fiction)
  40. Halo in Blood – Howard Browne as John Evans [it’s a guy who writes under another name and puts both names on the cover…and it’s kind of confusing.] (Fiction)*
  41. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowland (Fiction)
  42. Anxious People – Fredrick Backman (Fiction, Translated from Swedish)

*Recommended

Demographics:

Women = 31
Men = 11
American = 24
British = 6
Japanese = 2
Mexican = 1
African = 1
Canadian = 1
German = 1
French/Algerian = 1
South Korean = 1
Polish = 1

Australian = 1

South African = 1