My favorite book of 2020 was BETTY by Tiffany McDaniel. It’s very hard for me to pick favorites and that’s not to say that I didn’t enjoy other books just as much, but something about this story has stuck with me since I finished many months ago.
The following eleven books are my other favorites in no particular order.
Becoming by Michele Obama
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
The remaining 89 books I read are listed below in alphabetical order.
- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
- A Predator and A Psychopath by Jay Kerk
- A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa
- All the Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
- American Animals by Eric Borsuk
- Bears in the Streets by Lisa Dickey
- Beautiful Beast by E.J. Hill
- Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
- Between Wild & Ruin by Jennifer G. Edelson
- Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
- Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
- Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
- Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
- Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire
- Havenfall by Sara Holland
- Heart Sister by Michael F. Stewart
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez
- Ice Queen by Felicia Farmer
- If You Tell by Gregg Olsen
- Immersed in West Africa by Terry Lister
- In Praise of Paths: Walking Through Time and Nature by Torbjørn Ekelund
- In the Water, They Can’t See You Cry by Amanda Beard
- Internment by Samira Ahmed
- Killers Keep Secrets by James Huddle
- Let Her Be by Lisa Unger
- Limbo Jubilee by Gwendolyn Peach Soleil
- Little Falls by Elizabeth Lewes
- Lost Girl by Holly Kammier
- Lying Beneath by Kevin Moran
- Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert by Erica M. Elliott, MD
- Midnight Train to Prague by Carol Windley
- Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
- Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves by Farley Mowat
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- No Pianos, Pets, or Foreigners by Joe Palermo
- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
- Once A Girl, Always A Boy by Jo Investor
- Paper Girls Vol 1
- Paper Girls Vol 2
- Paper Girls Vol 3
- Plantains and the 7 Plagues by Paz Ella
- Red Hail by Jamie Killed
- Scythe by Neal Shusterman
- Seduced into Darkness by Carrie Ishee
- Slow Burner by Laura Lippman
- Snails & Elephants by Nicole Jean Turner
- Snow Flakes by Ruth Ware
- Swan Songs of Cygnus: The Weight of Black Holes by Vincent Hollow
- Teen Killers Club by Lily Sparks
- The Art of Stillness by Pico Iyer
- The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
- The Cannibals of Chaufant by E.E. Tressler
- The Cold Vanish by Jon Billman
- The Dark Land by D.M. Shepard
- The Deep by Rivers Solomon
- The Existence of Amy by Lana Grace Riva
- The Gift by Alison Gaylin
- The Girl Beneath the Sea by Andrew Mayne
- The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
- The Invisibles by Rachel Dacus
- The Last Dive: A Father and Son’s Fatal Descent into the Ocean’s Depths by Bernie Chowdhury
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk
- The Other Hotel by Jack Stroke
- The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms
- The Pearl by John Steinbeck
- The Power by Naomi Alderman
- The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
- The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
- The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
- The Rhythm of Evil by Dennis Koller
- The Rise of Wolf 8 by Rick McIntyre
- The Sleep Tight Motel by Lisa Unger
- The Suicide Killer by S.E. Green
- The Turnaway Study by Diana Greene Foster, PhD
- The Vine That Ate the South by J.D. Wilkes
- They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
- Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
- Treasure by Oyinkan Braithwaite
- Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey
- What Did I Do? By Colleen S. Myers
- What Did She Do? By Colleen S. Myers
- When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullers, Asha Bandele, and Angela Y. Davis
- When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O’Neal
- Why Now is the Time to Crush It! By Gary Vaynerchuk
- Wild by Nature by Sarah Marquis
- Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death by Caitlin Doughty
- Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek, MD and T.J. Mitchell
- Zoon Garden by Jordan O’Donnell