Best of 2020 Lists

Hi guys,
I saw one of the prompts for December’s Book Bingo was a book that is on your friend’s ‘Best of 2020’ list. I figured we could share some of our best of lists and help people who might not really have friends who read a lot of books. I’m also curious of what were some people’s favorite books that they have read this year. I will include mine in the comments and include any books that I gave 5 stars that were not rereads of mine.

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Here’s my mix of my best of 2020 list. I read as many different genres as possible, so there’s a good mix of genres on here.

-Children of Virtue and Vengeance
-On the Come Up
-This Tender Land
-Finding Chika
-Anne Frank Beyond the Diary
-Children of the Flames
-East
-My Squirrel Days (I listened to the audiobook of this)
-The Holdout
-Chain of Gold
-Well Met
-The Unwilling (This is out in February of next year. I received an ARC from BookishFirst)
-The Martian
-The Guest List
-The Library of Legends
-Ginny Moon
-The One and Only Bob
-The Secret Life of Aaron Burr
-The Kinder Poison
-The Prince and the Dressmaker
-The Orphan Collector
-Jo & Laurie
-Down Among the Sticks and Bones
-Beneath the Sugar Sky
-In an Absent Dream
-The Witch Boy
-Tuesdays with Morrie
-Memoirs of a Geisha
-If You Ask Me
-Almost American Girl
-The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes
-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
-Cilka’s Journey
-The Hidden Witch
-The Midwinter Witch
-The Companion
-Anxious People
-The Adventures of Robin Hood
-The Girl in the Mirror
-The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
-The Girl Who Drank the Moon (The audiobook of this is amazing!)
-Prairie Lotus
-The Girls at the Kingfisher Club
-Wundersmith
-Watch Over Me

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I LOVED Wundersmith. Such a great series so far. I need to get my hands on book 3.

-Fleeting Glimpse (short story)
-Chase Darkness With Me
-Raven’s Flight
-The Bridge Kingdom
-Crescent City
-House of Salt and Sorrows
-Serpent and Dove
-The Hollow Gods
-Deal with the Devil
-Truthwitch
-Windwitch
-Bloodwitch
-Illuminae
-Gemina
-Don’t Look For Me
-Master of Salt and Bones
-Midnight Sun
-The Blacksmith Queen
-The Princess Knight
-On Dublin Street

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Some of my favorites from this year (so far) are Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse, You Had Me At Hola by Alexis Daria, The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett, Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, Tightrope by Nickolas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, and I’m sure I’m missing a bunch more. I am pretty much of the mind that if I finish the book, it gets 4 stars. I just don’t finish books if I’m not liking them.

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Books released in 2020:

  • Mexican Gothic
  • The Midnight Library
  • Tender is the Flesh
  • American Dirt
  • Super Fake Love Song

Older books not released in 2020:

  • Gone South by Robert McCammon
  • Paper Tigers by Damien Angelica Walters
  • Locke & Key (graphic novels) by Joe Hill
  • Sundown Series by Courtney Konstantin
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Books released in 2020:

  • The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver
  • Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson
  • The Guest List by Lucy Foley
  • The Night Swim by Megan Goldin
  • The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda
  • What You Wish For by Katherine Center
  • Invisible Girl by Lisa Jewell
  • The Shadows by Alex North
  • To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
  • The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune
  • Harley in the Sky by Akemi Dawn Bowman
  • He Started It by Samantha Downing
  • He Must Like You by Danielle Younge-Ullman

Older books not released in 2020:

  • The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
  • The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
  • The Simple Wild by K.A. Tucker
  • The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
  • Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
  • The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager