2020 was both my best and worst year yet for reading! I read more books than I ever have before, but most books were of a lesser quality in my opinion. Don’t get me wrong, I still read some awe-inspiring books, but I was mainly reading for escape, so while a lot of stories were entertaining, they didn’t have that 5-star pow I usually expect. I made a heavily curated 2021 TBR list (look out for that next week), so I’m hoping to read some more amazing books next year.
In 2020, I read…
- Seventy books
- 28.5% audiobooks
- 35.7% e-books
- 35.7% physical books
- 30% non-fiction
- 70% fiction
- Five anti-racist education books
- 35.7% books written by or featuring BIPOC
- 25.7% books written by or featuring LGBTQ
- Star-Ratings
- One 1-star read
- Four 2-star reads
- Eighteen 3-star reads
- Twenty-five 4-star reads
- Seventeen 5-star reads
- Five no-star ratings (antiracist education)
Books I Read in 2020
one | Becoming by Michelle Obama
two | Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas
Books I Read in January 2020 (Wrap Up Unavailable)
three | Scythe by Neil Schusterman
Books I Read in February 2020 (Wrap Up Unavailable)
four | Thunderhead by Neil Schusterman
five | Girl, Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis
six | Stay Sexy, and Don’t Get Murdered by Georgia Hardstark and Karen Killgariff
seven | This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
Books I Read in March 2020 (Wrap Up Unavailable)
eight | Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis— Audiobook
nine | The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J. Maas
ten | Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
eleven | Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan — Audiobook
twelve | The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger — E-Book
thirteen | It by Stephen King
fourteen | China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan — Audiobook
fifteen | We Were Liars by E. Lockhart— E-Book
sixteen | The Dreamers by Karen Walker Thompson
seventeen | Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins — E-Book
eighteen | Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins — E-Book
nineteen | The First Time: Finding Myself and Looking for Love on Reality TV by Colton Underwood — Audiobook
twenty | Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan — Audiobook
twenty-one | The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren — E-Book
twenty-two | Open Book by Jessica Simpson — Audiobook
twenty-three | Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas
twenty-four | The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves — E-Book
twenty-five | Never Split the Difference: Negotiating Like Your Life Depends on It by Chris Voss with Tahl Raz
twenty-six | Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins — E-Book
twenty-seven | The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah — Audiobook
twenty-eight | The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
twenty-nine | The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell — Audiobook
thirty | The Hidden Power of F*cking Up by The Try Guys — Audiobook
thirty-one | White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo — E-Book
thirty-two | The Toll by Neal Shusterman — E-Book
thirty-three | Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders — Audiobook
thirty-four | The No Asshole Rule by Robert Sutton
thirty-five | The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas — E-Book
thirty-six | One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus — E-Book
thirty-seven | How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs — Audiobook
thirty-eight | Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering — E-Book
thirty-nine | My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
forty | The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes — E-Book
forty-one | I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown — E-Book
forty-two | Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson — E-Book
forty-three | Dare to Lead by Brené Brown — Audiobook
forty-four | The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
forty-five | The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson — E-Book
forty-six | One of Us is Next by Karen McManus — E-Book
forty-seven | Daring Greatly by Brené Brown — Audiobook
forty-eight | Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb — E-Book
forty-nine | Me and White Supremacy by Layla S. Saad — E-Book
fifty | Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë — Audiobook
fifty-one | The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson — E-Book
fifty-two | Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
fifty-three | Beach Read by Emily Henry
fifty-four | Revenge Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger — E-Book
fifty-five | All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward — Audiobook
fifty-six | Unmarketing by Scott Stratten and Alison Kramer
Books I Read in September 2020
fifty-seven | Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
fifty-eight | Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell — Audiobook
fifty-nine | The Favorite Sister by Jessica Knoll
sixty | Red, White and Royal Blueby Casey McQuiston — E-Book
sixty-one | When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele — Audiobook
sixty-two | The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
sixty-three | Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
sixty-four | Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson — Audiobook
sixty-five | City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert — E-Book
sixty-six | The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware — E-Book
sixty-seven | Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel — E-Book
sixty-eight | Eat a Peach by David Chang — Audiobook
sixty-nine | The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
seventy | One Day in December by Josie Silver — E-Book
seventy-0ne | Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
Happy reading,
Kimberly
