2020 Best of the year

2020 Must Read List

Usually this list doesn’t come out until early January so that I can read until the very last day of December. Makes sense, right? This year, however, I realized that the two books I’m reading right now are 2021 releases. Alas, I was able to put together my faves for 2020. Trust me, there are still about fifty 2020 titles staring at me and itching to be read. I’ll definitely get to them, just waiting for that eighth day of the week! 

All books on the list are available on my Bookshop page to support indie bookstores and each book is linked to my review on https://goodbookfairy.com/.  There are a couple with reviews waiting to be written (sorry- I prefer to read) so those few will be linked to Amazon for the time being. 

Enjoy! 

 

Women’s Fiction and Romance

Seven by Farzana Doctor

The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman

This Is Not How it Ends by Rochelle Weinstein

Beach Read by Emily Henry

Ties the Tether by Jane Igharo

Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

That’s Not a Thing by Jacqueline Friedland

General Fiction and Suspense

Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

The Orchard by David Hopen

Writers & Lovers by Lily King

The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones by Daven McQueen YA

The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult

The Assignment by Liza M. Wiemer YA

The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare

The Last Flight by Julie Clark

A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight

Historical Fiction

The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi

Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie

Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner (2021 release)

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon

Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West

When We Were Young and Brave by Hazel Gaynor

Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore 

Universe of Two by Stephen P Kiernan

The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman

The Yellow Bird Sings by Jennifer Rosner

The Lion’s of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis

Exile Music by Jennifer Steil

Non -Fiction

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

The Answer Is…Reflections of My Life by Alex Trebek

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life by Edith Eger

The Daughters of Yalta by Catherine Grace Katz

 

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