My Favorite Reads of 2020 →
Here’s the best of 2020! Thanks for visiting! Please feel free to comment.
Read MoreLady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown, by Anne Glenconner
Fans of the insider story of British royalty must read this memoir.
Read MoreUnspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit and Obsession, edited by Sarah Weinman
A compilation of the best true crime writing of the late 2010s, this is fascinating storytelling by any measure.
Read MoreThe Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, by Hope Jahren
Jahren offers a well-researched, easy-to-understand presentation of the data of how our consumption patterns are unsustainable. You will actually enjoy her writing, and learn a great deal.
Read MoreBefore She Was Helen, by Caroline Cooney
Young Adult author Caroline Cooney writes a great mystery for an adult audience. Cooney turns her attention to a retirement community infiltrated by murder.
Read MoreAxiom's End by Lindsay Ellis
Great science fiction novel, combining good story telling with much food for thought. One of this year’s best, and a first novel from YouTuber Lindsay Ellis.
Read MoreThe Searcher, by Tana French
A beautifully written, morally complex mystery; a western set in Ireland by a great writer.
Read MoreHow to Be An Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
Not much here to expand your understanding of the experience of race in America. Feel free to take a pass.
Read MoreThe Guest List, by Lucy Foley
A guilty pleasure, if betrayal and murder are your thing.
Read MoreAnxious People, by Fredrik Backman.
Fredrik Backman is back with an excellent novel. Might be your 2020 favorite.
Read MoreThe Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Generation Z has been hobbled by parents and society. Learn how they may undo the damage and improve their functioning. We need to prevent extending this to the next generation.
Read MoreAll The Devils Are Here, by Louise Penny
The sixteenth novel in Penny’s Armand Gamache series, this book is a love letter to Paris, while also an exploration of corporate greed gone deadly.
Read MoreEmpty: A Memoir, by Susan Burton
Burton’s memoir is a very personal examination of her relationship with food, body image, and the addictive cycle of anorexia and binge eating. An important study of self discovery for all women.
Read MoreOne By One, by Ruth Ware
Ruth Ware, an excellent mystery writer, brings us a serial murder in a chalet in the French Alps, isolated by an avalanche. You will delight in this!
Read Morewow, no thank you, by Samantha Irby
A fresh, bawdy voice women should really appreciate—get ready to laugh til you leak (a little bit.)
Read MoreDevoted, by Dean Koontz
A master of suspense, Koontz weaves his love of dogs into a terrific novel.
Read MoreThe Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, by Grady Hendrix
Filled with dry humor and spine-tingling excitement, this novel will teach you never to underestimate southern housewives, who have each other’s backs, even when battling a vampire who threatens their families.
Read MoreDancing at the Pity Party: a Dead Mom Graphic Memoir, by Tyler Feder
A loving graphic novel tribute to her mother, Tyler Feder takes us through her thoughts and feelings as she deals with the loss of her mom as a young adult.
Read MoreToo Much and Never Enough : How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D.
Clinical psychologist and author Mary Trump is the aggrieved niece of Donald Trump, whose father died of alcoholism at 42. She blasts Uncle Donald in this profile.
Read MoreThe Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s, by Andy Greene
That;s what she said…an oral history of this amazing mockumentary comedy classic.
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