2020 Reading List

I read 76 books this year.

Last year, I was at 68. In terms of the quality of books though, I think I read better books in 2019 and consumed more junk in 2020. But like comfort food, comfort reading was a huge stress-buster for me so I don’t feel bad about it.

December

1. Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
2. The Last Widow (Will Trent, #9)
3. The Trouble with Hating You
4. The Lost Woman (Louise Rick #9)
5. The Good Daughter (Good Daughter, #1)
6. Beach Read
7. In Five Years
8. Pieces of Her
9. A Little Life

November

1. Eat a Peach
2. Nine Perfect Strangers

October

1. Monogamy
2. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

September

1. The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice
2. Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
3. Transcendent Kingdom
4. Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones

August

1. Conviction
2. The Body in Question
3. The Guest List
4. Redhead by the Side of the Road
5. Wine Simple: A Totally Approachable Guide from a World-Class Sommelier

July

1. The Cactus
2. Stray
3. The Summer Deal
4. Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
5. Breasts and Eggs

June

1. The Jetsetters
2. Pelosi
3. Dining In: Highly Cookable Recipes

May

1. All Adults Here
2. Big Summer
3. What We Carry: A Memoir
4. The Snakes
5. The Boy from the Woods
6. Ask Again, Yes
7. Everything I Never Told You
8. The Knockout Queen
9. Becoming
10. Breathe In, Cash Out

April

1. Conversations with Friends
2. Know My Name: A Memoir
3. Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber
4. Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change
5. Queenie
6. Copperhead
7. Mrs. Everything
8. Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes
9. A Woman Is No Man
10. Ninth House
11. Recursion
12. The Gene: An Intimate History
13. Homesick for Another World

March

1. Mythologies
2. Such a Fun Age
3. The Light We Lost
4. Red at the Bone
5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
6. The Trial
7. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom
8. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
9. My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
10. Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West

February

1. A Gentleman in Moscow
2. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
3. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
4. Principles: Life and Work

January

1. Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
2. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
3. Turbulence
4. The Girl He Used to Know
5. Honeymoon Hotel
6. The Silent Patient
7. The Dutch House
8. Outline
9. Uncanny Valley: A Memoir