Favorite Books of 2020

I read a ton. And I want others to love reading too. So I’m sharing my favorite from those books that I read in 2020. I’m breaking them down by the month that I read them in, so that if you want to go back and look at my reviews of these books (and the others that weren’t my favorites), you can find them by clicking the links. Happy reading friends!

January

Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad by M.T. Anderson

Meet Me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb

February

High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict’s Double Life by Tiffany Jenkins

The Dispatcher by John Scalzi

Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran

March

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney

One of Ours by Willa Cather

The Toll by Neal Shusterman

April

Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver by Jill Heinerth

The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

May

Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand

The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel

The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway

June

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

All Creatures Great and Small: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World’s Most Beloved Animal Doctor by James Herriot

July

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri, in 1894 by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane

Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks

Opium and Absinthe by Lydia Kang

August

Three Slices by Kevin Hearne, Delilah S. Dawson, and Chuck Wendig

September

Unspoken by Luke Daniels

Ink & Sigil: From the World of the Iron Druid Chronicles by Kevin Hearne

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

October

Tales from Misery Ridge: One Man’s Adventures in the Great Outdoors by Paul J. Fournier

Bless the Beasts & Children by Glendon Swarthout

Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid

November

The Man on the Mountaintop by Susan Trott

December

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

The Ickabog by J.K. Rowling