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.

1. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
2. A Predator and A Psychopath by Jay Kerk
3. A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa
4. All the Bad Apples by Moïra Fowley-Doyle
5. American Animals by Eric Borsuk
6. Bears in the Streets by Lisa Dickey
7. Beautiful Beast by E.J. Hill
8. Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
9. Between Wild & Ruin by Jennifer G. Edelson
10. Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
11. Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
12. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
13. Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
14. Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire
15. Havenfall by Sara Holland
16. Heart Sister by Michael F. Stewart
17. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez
18. Ice Queen by Felicia Farmer
19. If You Tell by Gregg Olsen
20. Immersed in West Africa by Terry Lister
21. In Praise of Paths: Walking Through Time and Nature by Torbjørn Ekelund
22. In the Water, They Can’t See You Cry by Amanda Beard
23. Internment by Samira Ahmed
24. Killers Keep Secrets by James Huddle
25. Let Her Be by Lisa Unger
26. Limbo Jubilee by Gwendolyn Peach Soleil
27. Little Falls by Elizabeth Lewes
28. Lost Girl by Holly Kammier
29. Lying Beneath by Kevin Moran
30. Medicine and Miracles in the High Desert by Erica M. Elliott, MD
31. Midnight Train to Prague by Carol Windley
32. Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King
33. Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves by Farley Mowat
34. Night by Elie Wiesel
35. No Pianos, Pets, or Foreigners by Joe Palermo
36. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
37. Once A Girl, Always A Boy by Jo Investor
38. Paper Girls Vol 1
39. Paper Girls Vol 2
40. Paper Girls Vol 3
41. Plantains and the 7 Plagues by Paz Ella
42. Red Hail by Jamie Killed
43. Scythe by Neal Shusterman
44. Seduced into Darkness by Carrie Ishee
45. Slow Burner by Laura Lippman
46. Snails & Elephants by Nicole Jean Turner
47. Snow Flakes by Ruth Ware
48. Swan Songs of Cygnus: The Weight of Black Holes by Vincent Hollow
49. Teen Killers Club by Lily Sparks
50. The Art of Stillness by Pico Iyer
51. The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
52. The Cannibals of Chaufant by E.E. Tressler
53. The Cold Vanish by Jon Billman
54. The Dark Land by D.M. Shepard
55. The Deep by Rivers Solomon
56. The Existence of Amy by Lana Grace Riva
57. The Gift by Alison Gaylin
58. The Girl Beneath the Sea by Andrew Mayne
59. The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
60. The Invisibles by Rachel Dacus
61. The Last Dive: A Father and Son’s Fatal Descent into the Ocean’s Depths by Bernie Chowdhury
62. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
63. The Man Who Spoke Snakish by Andrus Kivirähk
64. The Other Hotel by Jack Stroke
65. The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms
66. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
67. The Power by Naomi Alderman
68. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
69. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
70. The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
71. The Rhythm of Evil by Dennis Koller
72. The Rise of Wolf 8 by Rick McIntyre
73. The Sleep Tight Motel by Lisa Unger
74. The Suicide Killer by S.E. Green
75. The Turnaway Study by Diana Greene Foster, PhD
76. The Vine That Ate the South by J.D. Wilkes
77. They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
78. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
79. Treasure by Oyinkan Braithwaite
80. Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey
81. What Did I Do? By Colleen S. Myers
82. What Did She Do? By Colleen S. Myers
83. When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullers, Asha Bandele, and Angela Y. Davis
84. When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O’Neal
85. Why Now is the Time to Crush It! By Gary Vaynerchuk
86. Wild by Nature by Sarah Marquis
87. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death by Caitlin Doughty
88. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek, MD and T.J. Mitchell
89. Zoon Garden by Jordan O’Donnell

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