I read a lot of books last year, some for novel research, some for pleasure. A happy number achieved both. Here's a selection, in random order without links. (A few of these I might have read in 2019, granted; the point remains that 2020 afforded a lot of reading time.)
Fiction - Novels
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jaqueline Woodson
Memorial by Bryan Washington
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
The Lightest Object in the Universe by Kimi Eisele
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Warehouse by Rob Hart
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
American War by Omar El Akkad
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Black Sun by Owen Matthews
Weather by Jenny Offill
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld
Fiction - Short Stories
White Dancing Elephants by Chaya Bhuveneswar
You Think It, I’ll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Pure Hollywood by Christine Schutt
Nonfiction
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (in progress)
Lights Out by Ted Koppel
One Bullet Away by Nathaniel Fick
God Bless Texas by Lawrence Wright
Sandworm by Andy Greenberg
Prophetic City by Stephen Klineberg
Blowout by Rachel Maddow
Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
Writing Craft
Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk
Story Grid by Shawn Coyne
Save the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody
On Writing by Stephen King
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