Best book of 2020: The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall
Overall favorite fiction book of 2020: Inside the O’Briens by Lisa Genova
Overall favorite nonfiction book of 2020: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Overall favorite romance of 2020: Headliners by Lucy Parker
Quick stats:
- # of books read: 153
- format breakdown: 37% print, 48% e-book, 14% audiobook
- most-read genre: romance (37%)
- average star rating: 3.7
my favorite reads • reading stats
FIVE-STAR READS
- Brazen and the Beast by Sarah MacLean
- The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
- Beyond the Point by Claire Gibson
- Headliners by Lucy Parker
- Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone
- The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
- Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
- We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- For Better or Worse by Lauren Layne
- The Dearly Beloved by Cara Wall
- The Book of Essie by Meghan MacLean Weir
- March: Book 1 by John Lewis
- Open Book by Jessica Simpson
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
- The Start of Me and You by Emery Lord
- Applied Electromagnetism by Susannah Nix
- Inside the O’Briens by Lisa Genova
- Deacon King Kong by James McBride
- The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
- The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician’s First Year by Matt McCarthy
- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
- Murder on Cold Street by Sherry Thomas
- Love on Lexington Avenue by Lauren Layne
- Come Away with Me by Karma Brown
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
- Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
FOUR-STAR READS
- Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
- The Governess Game by Tessa Dare
- The Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas
- Catch and Kill: Secrets, Lies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
- Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
- Forever and a Day by Jill Shalvis
- The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
- Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life by Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush
- Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren
- This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell
- Good Guy by Kate Meader
- How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
- Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy M.D.
- Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- Shacking Up by Helena Hunting
- Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
- Long Bright River by Liz Moore
- It Had to Be You by Jill Shalvis
- Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave
- Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
- Instacrush by Kate Meader
- A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams
- Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn
- Hurts to Love You by Alisha Rai
- Hooking Up by Helena Hunting
- Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
- Final Siege by Scarlett Cole
- The Honey-Don’t List by Christina Lauren
- The Darkest Hour by Maya Banks
- The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esme Weijun Wang
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
- Hum If You Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marais
- Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare
- This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
- Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
- Down with Love by Kate Meader
- The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
- Extraordinary Means by Robyn Schneider
- Deep Cover by Scarlett Cole
- You Had Me at Hola by Alexis Daria
- The Chain by Adrian McKinty
- Say Yes to the Marquess by Tessa Dare
- You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
- The Office: The Untold Story of the Great Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History
- Passion on Park Avenue by Lauren Layne
- Invisible Man: Got the Whole World Watching by Mychal Denzel Smith
- Man Down by Kate Meader
- The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
- Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
- 40-Love by Olivia Dade
- It’s in His Kiss by Jill Shalvis
- You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
- Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
- Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
- The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar
- Do You Want to Start a Scandal by Tessa Dare
- Atomic Love by Jennie Fields
- Sadie by Courtney Summers
- I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron
- Beach Read by Emily Henry
- Here to Stay by Adriana Herrera
THREE-STAR READS
- The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
- A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Edvardsson
- Under Fire by Scarlett Cole
- She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Ignited a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
- The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
- Emmy & Oliver by Robin Benway
- To Have and to Hold by Lauren Layne
- Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott
- Every Wild Heart by Meg Donohue
- Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
- Wrong to Need You by Alisha Rai
- The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare
- Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey
- American Sweethearts by Adriana Herrera
- The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy by Caroline Dooner
- Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger
- The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa
- The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller
- Always on My Mind by Jill Shalvis
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Field Notes on Love by Jennifer E. Smith
- To Love and to Cherish by Lauren Layne
- Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
- The Art of Theft by Sherry Thomas
- No Place to Run by Maya Banks
- Woman 99 by Greer Macallister
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
- The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
- Once in a Lifetime by Jill Shalvis
- The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race edited by Jesmyn Ward
- Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai
- Experimental Marine Biology by Susannah Nix
- All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of the Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
- One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
- The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
- Hidden Away by Maya Banks
- Daring and the Duke by Sarah MacLean
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
- Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays by R. Eric Thomas
- Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie Dawson
TWO-STAR READS
- Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan
- Get a Life, Chloe Brown! by Talia Hibbert
- Castle of Water by Dane Hucklebridge
- Advanced Physical Chemistry by Susannah Nix
- Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
- Intercepted by Alexa Martin
- Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay
- The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
- Undercover Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams
- Fumbled by Alexa Martin
- When a Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare
- The Guest List by Lucy Foley
- A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris
- Driven to Distraction by Lori Foster
- Flirting with Fire by Kate Meader
- Pride by Ibi Zoboi
ONE-STAR READS
- Lucy’s Little Village Book Club by Emma Davies
- Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker