Books I Read in 2020

This year I set a goal to read 50 books, and I nearly did it! This is by far the most books I have ever read in one year (48!!), so I am still darn tootin’ proud of myself. Eight books received the coveted 5-star review, including a wide range of genres such as young adult contemporary, memoir, poetry, historical fantasy, and more. I’ve decided that my reading goal for next year will be 75 books—this may be a little overreaching, but I think my disappointment threshold is through the roof following this dumpster-fire of a year, so falling short will likely have little to no effect on my disposition.

I typically organize my books in one lump list in the order I read them, but due to the sheer volume this year I instead decided to order them by their rating. Within each category, books are listed chronologically in the order read.

Five Stars

  • Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1) by Leigh Bardugo

  • Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows #2) by Leigh Bardugo

  • The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company by Robert Iger

  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

  • Dear Martin (Dear Martin #1) by Nic Stone

  • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

  • The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

  • What Kind of Woman: Poems by Kate Baer

Four Stars

  • The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle

  • The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur

  • The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman

  • The Magic of Motherhood: The Good Stuff, the Hard Stuff, and Everything In Between by Ashlee Gadd

  • They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

  • The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic (Grishaverse) by Leigh Bardugo

  • The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina—Separating the Myth from the Medicine by Jennifer Gunter

  • The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais

  • Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit

  • The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games #0) by Suzanne Collins

  • Caraval (Caraval #1) by Stephanie Garber

  • Legendary (Caraval #2) by Stephanie Garber

  • Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

  • Every Thing on It by Shel Silverstein

  • I Am Alfonso Jones by Toni Medina, Stacey Robinson (Illustrator), John Jennings (Illustrator)

  • We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

Three Stars

  • The Selection (The Selection #1) by Kiera Cass

  • Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

  • Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

  • Greek Myths: A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • Finale (Caraval #3) by Stephanie Garber

  • Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America, edited by Ibi Zoboi

  • Midnight Sun (Twilight #5) by Stephenie Meyer

  • The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Harry Potter) by J.K. Rowling

  • Serpent & Dove (Serpent & Dove #1) by Shelby Mahurin

  • The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

  • A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: The Poetry of Mister Rogers by Fred Rogers

  • Home Body by Rupi Kaur

  • The Lives of Saints (Grishaverse) by Leigh Bardugo

  • Her by Pierre Alex Jeanty

  • Swimming Lessons: Poems by Lili Reinhart

Two Stars

  • The Elite (The Selection #2) by Kiera Cass

  • The One (The Selection #3) by Kiera Cass

  • The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

  • Pillow Thoughts by Courtney Peppernell

  • Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass by Lana Del Rey

One Star

  • The Heir (The Selection #4) by Kiera Cass

  • The Crown (The Selection #5) by Kiera Cass

What was the best book you read in 2020? Comment below!

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