Here’s a monthly breakdown of all of the books I read in 2020 plus a list at the end of books I loved that you should definitely read!

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January

• The Alutrists by Andrew Ridker: 4 stars
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling: 4 stars
• Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse by John Lithgow: 4 stars
• Would Like to Meet by Rachel Winters: 3 stars
• Aaron Hernandez’s Killing Fields: Exposing Untold Murders, Violence, Cover-Ups, and the NFL’s Shocking Code of Silence by Dylan Howard: 3 stars

February

• Deep State by Chris Hauty: 2 stars
• The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams: 4 stars
• Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert: 2 stars
• Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino: 4 stars
• Reputation by Sara Shepard: 3 stars

March

• Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal: 3 stars
• Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow: 5 stars
• The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa: 3 stars
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid: 4 stars
• Faithful by Alice Hoffman: 4 stars

April

• Us Against You by Fredrik Backman: 4 stars
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling: 4 stars
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling: 5 stars
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling: 5 stars

May

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling: 4 stars
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling: 5 stars
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling: 5 stars
• The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn: 4 stars
• Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: An Introvert’s Year of Living Dangerously by Jessica Pan: 4 stars

June

• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid: 4 stars
• Heavy by Kiese Laymon: 4 stars
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman: 5 stars
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors: 4 stars
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds: 5 stars
• The Cactus League by Emily Nemens: 5 stars
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite: 4 stars
• The Witches are Coming by Lindy West: 4 stars

July

• All My Mother’s Lovers by Ilana Masad: 3 stars
• Followers by Megan Angelo: 4 stars
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor: 4 stars
• Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams: 4 stars
• Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 4 stars
• Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld: 2 stars
• Self Care by Leigh Stein: 4 stars
• The Only Plane in the Sky: Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett Graff: 5 stars
• Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams: 4 stars
• I Was Told It Would Get Easier by Abbi Waxman: 2 stars
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo: 4 stars
• Long Bright River by Liz Moore: 5 stars

August

• What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha: 4 stars
• Know My Name by Chanel Miller: 5 stars
• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai: 5 stars
• Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert: 4 stars
• Pasty by Nicole Dennis-Benn: 5 stars
• Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel: 4 stars
• Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall: 5 stars
• The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez: 2 stars

September

• The Watergate Girl by Jill Wine-Banks: 5 stars
• Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman: 4 stars
• Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary Trump: 4 stars
• You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe: 4 stars
• Thank You for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America by Erin Geiger Smith: 4 stars
• American Royals by Katharine McGee: 5 stars
• Party of Two by Jasmine Guillory: 2 stars
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward: 4 stars

October

• On Beauty by Zadie Smith: 4 stars
• Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman: 4 stars
• Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney of President Donald J. Trump by Michael Cohen: 4 stars
• My Husband’s Wife by Jane Corry: 2 stars
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig: 5 stars
• I Have Something to Tell You by Chasten Buttigieg: 5 stars
• Privilege by Mary Adkins: 4 stars

November

• The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis: 3 stars
• Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa: 4 stars
• Afterlife by Julia Alvarez: 4 stars
• Musical Chairs by Amy Poeppel: 4 stars
• Dominicana by Angie Cruz: 4 stars
• Trust: America’s Best Chance by Pete Buttigieg: 4 stars
• Can’t Event: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen: 4 stars
• The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis: 4 stars

December

• Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi: 4 stars
• The Opposite of Fate by Alison McGhee: 2 stars
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead: 4 stars
• The Love Story of Missy Carmichael by Beth Morrey: 5 stars
• Memorial by Bryan Washington: 4 stars
• Grown Ups by Emma Jane Unsworth: 4 stars
• Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College by Jesse Wegman: 4 stars
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama: 5 stars (and only a small tea stain…)
• The Boy Toy by Nicola Marsh: 3 stars

Books I Loved That You Need to Read ASAP

• Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Heavy by Kiese Laymon
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds
• The Cactus League by Emily Nemens
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor
• Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams
• The Only Plane in the Sky: Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett Graff
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• Long Bright River by Liz Moore
• Know My Name by Chanel Miller
• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
• Pasty by Nicole Dennis-Benn
• Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall
• American Royals by Katharine McGee
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• The Love Story of Missy Carmichael by Beth Morrey
• Memorial by Bryan Washington
• Grown Ups by Emma Jane Unsworth
• A Promised Land by Barack Obama

What were some of your favorite books you read in 2020?