I know I’m being a bit aspirational, but I’ve compiled a list of 36 books I want to read in 2020. I know I won’t read them all, but I wanted to be more intentional about the books I’m picking up in this new year. I’ve broken it out into classics, non-fiction, and freebies. Let’s get started…
Classics
1. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
3. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
4. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
5. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
6. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
7. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
8. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
9. One Hundred Year of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
10. Middlemarch by George Elliot
11. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
12. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Non-Fiction
1. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
2. Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
3. All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
4. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
5. Thinking Fast and Slow by Dan Kahneman
6. Girl, Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis
7. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Changes the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
8. The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self Control by Walter Mischel
9. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowiz
10. Career Killers/Career Builders: The Book Every Millenial Should Read by John Crossman
11. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
12. Pitch Perfect: How To Say It Right the First Time, Every Time by Bill McGowan
Fiction
1. A Court of Thorns and Roses (series) by Sarah J. Maas
2. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
3. City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
4. The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
5. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
6. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
7. The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
8. Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
9. The Girl He Used to Know by Tracy Garvis Graves
10. Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering
11. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
12. The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
Let me know what you’re planning on reading in 2020 in the comments below.
Happy reading,
Kimberly
