BOOKS READ IN 2020

In 2020, I read 279 books.

• My favorite read of the year was: Valentine and The Death of Vivek Oji
• My favorite YA read of the year was: The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
• My favorite non-fiction read of the year was: Untamed and Know my Name
• My favorite SciFi (sortof) read of the year was: :The Midnight Library
• My favorite Fantasy read of the year was: The House in the Cerulean Sea
• My favorite Historical Fiction read of the year was: This Tender Land
• My favorite Mystery read of the year was: Magpie Murders
• Here are all my five star rated books from this year:
  • Noble Heart: A Self-Guided Retreat on Befriending Your Obstacles
  • Echo Mountain
  • Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
  • The Cold Millions
  • What I Carry
  • We Begin at the End
  • Being You: A Journal
  • Year of Yes
  • Live Your Best Life
  • Moonflower Murders
  • Mediocre
  • Magpie Murders
  • Growth
  • Conscious Creativity
  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
  • The Midnight Library
  • Miss Benson’s Beetle
  • Ordinary Grace
  • Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan
  • This Tender Land
  • Heart Talk: The Journal
  • The Death of Vivek Oji
  • Transcendent Kingdom
  • Watercolor Techniques for Artists and Illustrators
  • The Complete Urban Sketching Companion
  • Know My Name
  • What’s Your Enneatype?
  • The Science of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion
  • The Feel Good Effect
  • The Book of Longings
  • Valentine
  • The House in the Cerulean Sea
  • The Anxiety Skills Workbook
  • An Artful Path to Mindfulness
  • Success in Art
  • Navigate Your Stars
  • Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces
  • Untamed
  • The Silent Treatment
  • Leave Only Footprints
  • The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
  • The Love Story of Missy Carmichael
  • Radical Compassion
  • Yes and I love you

And here are all my reads from 2020 in reverse order. You can find all the reviews here and my drawings with reviews on instagram here.

1. In the Quick
2. Heart Bones
3. Yes and I love you
4. I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
5. Piranesi
6. One Way or Another
7. Layla
8. The Future is Yours
9. The Love Proof
10. Good Girls Lie
11. Echo Mountain
12. We Are All the Same in the Dark
13. Written in the Stars
14. Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
15. The Cold Millions
16. A Children’s Bible
17. Crow Court
18. How I Learned to Hate in Ohio
19. Don’t Look for Me
20. The Beauty in Breaking
21. All These Beautiful Strangers
22. What I Carry
23. This Time Next Year
24. The Center of Everything
25. The Chicken Sisters
26. Snapped (Playbook, #4)
27. We Begin at the End
28. The Wife Upstairs
29. The Searcher
30. What’s Your Story?: A Journal to Free Your Mind and Rewrite Your Life
31. Being You: A Journal
32. Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
33. The Urban Sketching Handbook: Drawing Expressive People: Essential Tips & Techniques for Capturing People on Location
34. Live Your Best Life: 162 Reasons to Rethink Your Daily Routine
35. Moonflower Murders (Susan Ryeland #2)
36. Ready Player Two (Ready Player One, #2)
37. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
38. Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1)
39. The Thirty Names of Night
40. Why Birds Sing
41. The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story
42. Growth
43. The Divines
44. Leave the World Behind
45. Crazy Stupid Bromance (Bromance Book Club, #3)
46. The Mirror Man
47. Agatha Arch Is Afraid of Everything
48. Dear Justyce (Dear Martin, #2)
49. The Survivors
50. Conscious Creativity: The Workbook: experiment, explore, create
51. Goodnight Beautiful
52. Breathless
53. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
54. The Midnight Library
55. A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
56. Miss Benson’s Beetle
57. Just Like You
58. Boy
59. Tools of Engagement (Hot & Hammered, #3)
60. Ordinary Grace
61. Pale Morning Light with Violet Swan: A Novel of a Life in Art
62. All the Way to the Tigers
63. All Things Left Wild
64. The White Coat Diaries
65. This Tender Land
66. Boop and Eve’s Road Trip: A Novel
67. Before the Ever After
68. The Friendship List
69. Migrations
70. Musical Chairs
71. The Book of Personality Tests: 25 Easy to Score Tests that Reveal the Real You
72. Heart Talk: The Journal: 52 Weeks of Self-Love, Self-Care, and Self-Discovery
73. One by One
74. Where the Edge Is: ‘original and Shattering’ Marianne Lee
75. Sisters
76. Before You Go
77. What Are You Going Through
78. Take Care of Your Type: An Enneagram Guide to Self-Care
79. The Death of Vivek Oji
80. Boyfriend Material
81. A Room Called Earth
82. Kiss My Cupcake
83. Transcendent Kingdom
84. A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom
85. The Boys’ Club
86. The Stationery Shop
87. Watercolor Techniques for Artists and Illustrators: Learn How to Paint Landscapes, People, Still Lifes, and More.
88. Self-Knowledge
89. The Complete Urban Sketching Companion: Essential Concepts and Techniques from The Urban Sketching Handbooks–Architecture and Cityscapes, Understanding Perspective, People and Motion, Working with Color
90. The Idea of You
91. The Night Swim
92. The Comeback
93. How Lulu Lost Her Mind
94. Stranger in the Lake
95. The Worst Best Man
96. The Silent Wife (Will Trent, #10)
97. The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals
98. In a Holidaze
99. The End of Her
100. The House of Deep Water
101. Bear Necessity
102. She’s Faking It
103. Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop
104. Pretty Things
105. Once Again
106. One to Watch
107. The End of Everything
108. The Pull of the Stars
109. The Book of Wild Flowers: Color Plates of 250 Wild Flowers and Grasses
110. Midnight Sun (Twilight, #5)
111. The Butterfly Lampshade
112. What You Wish For
113. The Trouble with Hating You
114. Full Disclosure
115. The End of the Day
116. The Henna Artist
117. The Girl from Widow Hills
118. Faking Friends
119. The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
120. Vesper Flights
121. The Nothing Man
122. His & Hers
123. The Switch
124. Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything
125. The Book of Hidden Wonders
126. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor (The Carls, #2)
127. All Things Reconsidered: How Rethinking What We Know Helps Us Know What We Believe
128. Clap When You Land
129. Self Care
130. Know My Name
131. The Dilemma
132. What’s Your Enneatype? An Essential Guide to the Enneagram: Understanding the Nine Personality Types for Personal Growth and Strengthened Relationships
133. Kawaii Doodle World: Sketching Super-Cute Doodle Scenes with Cuddly Characters, Fun Decorations, Whimsical Patterns, and More
134. Ordinary Hazards
135. Friends and Strangers
136. The Other Mrs.
137. The Swap
138. I Was Told It Would Get Easier
139. 142 Ostriches
140. Happy & You Know It
141. Follow Me
142. Party of Two (The Wedding Date, #5)
143. 500 Miles from You (Scottish Bookshop #3)
144. This Is How I Lied
145. The Bitter and Sweet of Cherry Season
146. Parakeet
147. The Motion of the Body Through Space
148. Exciting Times
149. With or Without You
150. Sad Janet
151. A Burning
152. The Second Home
153. Little Eyes
154. The Library of the Unwritten (Hell’s Library #1)
155. The Guest List
156. Stray
157. Anxious People
158. The Science of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion: How to Build New Habits to Transform Your Life
159. Your Year in Art: Watercolor: A project for every week of the year to inspire creative exploration in watercolor painting
160. The Feel Good Effect: Reclaim Your Wellness by Finding Small Shifts that Create Big Change
161. Learn to Paint in Acrylics with 50 More Small Paintings: Pick Up the Skills, Put on the Paint, Hang Up Your Art
162. Colourful Fun Embroidery: Featuring 24 Modern Projects to Bring Joy and Happiness to Your Life!
163. The Vanishing Half
164. Something to Talk About
165. The Knockout Queen
166. A Good Marriage
167. The Kingdom of Back
168. The Bookshop on the Shore (Scottish Bookshop, #2)
169. Love Poems for Anxious People
170. You Deserve Each Other
171. The Family Next Door
172. A Bad Day for Sunshine (Sunshine Vicram, #1)
173. The Eighth Detective
174. The Silence
175. Beach Read
176. The Secrets of Love Story Bridge
177. Pew
178. Big Summer
179. American Dirt
180. Writers & Lovers
181. The Imperfects
182. All Adults Here
183. Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
184. How to Save a Life
185. Dear Emmie Blue
186. Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers, #2)
187. Girl Gone Viral (Modern Love, #2)
188. The Sight of You (The Sight of You, #1)
189. If I Had Your Face
190. The Other People
191. The Margot Affair
192. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
193. The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2)
194. Sorry for Your Trouble: Stories
195. Master Class
196. Latitudes of Longing
197. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
198. The Book of Longings
199. I’d Give Anything
200. Getting Schooled (The Wright Brothers, #1)
201. Valentine
202. Days of Distraction: A Novel
203. The House in the Cerulean Sea
204. You Are Not Alone
205. Truth or Beard (Winston Brothers, #1)
206. The Anxiety Skills Workbook: Simple CBT and Mindfulness Strategies for Overcoming Anxiety, Fear, and Worry
207. An Artful Path to Mindfulness: MBSR-Based Activities for Using Creativity to Reduce Stress and Embrace the Present Moment
208. If I Never Met You
209. Providence
210. Success in Art: Mastering Perspective: Techniques for mastering one-, two-, and three-point perspective
211. Crochet: Over 130 Techniques and Stitches
212. Brunch and Other Obligations
213. Navigate Your Stars
214. Redhead by the Side of the Road
215. Undercover Bromance (Bromance Book Club, #2)
216. The Sun Down Motel
217. Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces: Step-by-Step Techniques for Creating People and Portraits with Personality, Explore Watercolors, Inks, Markers, and More
218. Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You
219. Mum & Dad
220. Eight Perfect Murders (Malcolm Kershaw, #1)
221. Last Couple Standing
222. The Glass Hotel
223. The Sweeney Sisters
224. Daisy Cooper’s Rules for Living
225. In Five Years
226. Untamed
227. The Silent Treatment
228. The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
229. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park
230. Postscript (P.S. I Love You, #2)
231. Meditative Stone Art: Create over 40 Mandala and Nature-Inspired Designs
232. The Art of Spiral Drawing: Learn to create spiral art and geometric drawings using pencil, pen, and more
233. 21 Rituals to Connect with Nature
234. Expressive Sketchbooks: Developing Creative Skills, Courage, and Confidence
235. My Path to Happy: Struggles with my mental health and all the wonderful things that happened after
236. The Opposite of Fate
237. Moon of the Crusted Snow
238. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
239. Interior Chinatown
240. Run Me to Earth
241. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
242. Yes No Maybe So
243. The Girl with the Louding Voice
244. The Holdout
245. Perfect Little Children
246. Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes
247. Loveboat, Taipei (Loveboat, Taipei, #1)
248. Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World
249. Weather
250. Followers
251. The Operator
252. Things in Jars
253. Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties
254. The New Life of Hugo Gardner
255. The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
256. The Wives
257. Home Making: A Novel
258. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
259. The Bookworm Crush
260. The Better Liar
261. Say You Still Love Me
262. The Camera Never Lies
263. Love Her or Lose Her (Hot & Hammered, #2)
264. Big Lies in a Small Town
265. The Love Story of Missy Carmichael
266. Long Bright River
267. Godshot
268. The Beekeeper of Aleppo
269. The Honey-Don’t List
270. Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children, #5)
271. Lost at Sea
272. You Were There Too
273. Dear Edward
274. The Joy of Movement: How Exercise Helps Us Find Happiness, Hope, Connection, and Courage
275. Recipe for a Perfect Wife
276. Willa’s Grove
277. Such a Fun Age
278. You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters
279. Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

I am grateful for all the great books I’ve read in 2020. Here’s to another great year of reading in 2021!