2020 Books Read

General Fiction (Literary Fiction, Women’s Fiction)
The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Dovetail by Karen McQuestion
Eden by Jamie Lisa Forbes
Florence Adler Swims Forever by Rachel Beanland
A Hope for Emily by Kate Hewitt
How to Bury Your Brother by Lindsey Rogers Cook
The Last Bathing Beauty by Amy Sue Nathan
The Last of the Moon Girls by Barbara Davis
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
Mercy House by Alena Dillon
The Missing Letters of Mrs. Bright by Beth Miller
Mother Land by Leah Franqui
Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. by Joyce Carol Oates
The Operator by Gretchen Berg
The Orphan House by Ann Bennett
The Sweeney Sisters by Lian Dolan
This is Not How it Ends by Rochelle Weinstein
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop by Fannie Flagg

Historical Fiction
Answer Creek by Ashley Sweeney
Better Luck Next Time by Julia Claiborne Johnson
The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
The Children’s Blizzard by Melanie Benjamin
The Forgotten Girls by Lizzie Page
The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor
The House at Mermaid’s Cove by Lindsay Jayne Ashford
Her Last Flight by Beatriz Williams
The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner
Katheryn Howard, the Scandalous Queen by Alison Weir
The Mermaid from Jeju by Sumi Hahn
Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees
Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters by Emily Carpenter
When We Were Young and Brave by Hazel Gaynor

Romance/Chick-Lit
500 Miles from You by Jenny Colgan
Beach Read by Emily Henry
Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner
The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
A Happy Catastrophe by Maddie Dawson
In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren
It Started with a Secret by Jill Mansell
Little Wishes by Michelle Adams
The Lost and Found Bookshop by Susan Wiggs
Mixed Doubles by Jill Mansell
The Neighbours by Nicola Gill
The Second Chance Boutique by Louisa Leaman
Summer on the Bluffs by Sunny Hostin
What You Wish For by Katherine Center

Mystery/Thriller/Suspense
All The Broken People by Leah Konen
The Best of Friends by Lucinda Berry
Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain
The Birthday Weekend by Lesley Sanderson
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
Confessions on the 7:45 by Lisa Unger
The Day I Disappeared by Brandi Reeds
To Dare by Jemma Wayne
Don’t Look for Me by Wendy Walker
Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
Find Me by Anne Frasier
The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda
The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
The Girl Who Never Came Home by Nicole Trope
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Hush Little Baby by Jane Isaac
In My Wake by Ruth Harrow
Killing the Girl by Elizabeth Hill
The Last Flight by Julie Clark
The Liar’s Daughter by Claire Allan
The Lies I Never Told You by Valerie Tong Cuong
The Little Grave by Carolyn Arnold
The Lost Girls of Devon by Barbara O’Neal
The Missing by Daisy Pearce
The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
My Sister’s Husband by Nicola Marsh
Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson
The Night Away by Jess Ryder
The Nowhere Girl by Nicole Trope
The Open House by Sam Carrington
The Perfect Mother by Caroline Mitchell
Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane
The Push by Claire McGowan
The Shadow Bird by Ann Gosslin
Silent Night by Nell Pattison
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Stolen Children by Michael Wood
Strangers by C.L. Taylor
The Three Mrs. Wrights by Linda Keir
To Tell You the Truth by Gilly Macmillan
The Two Lila Bennetts by Liz Fenton
Unfaithful by Natalie Barelli
Village of Lost Girls by Agustin Martinez
The Vow by Debbie Howells
Watch Her Vanish by Ellery Kane
When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole
The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
Woman on the Edge by Samantha Bailey

Science Fiction/Fantasy
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
Crossings by Alex Landragin

General Nonfiction/Memoir/Essays
All We are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono by David Sheff
Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers
The Real Beatrix Potter by Nadia Cohen
To Me He Was Just Dad: Stories of Growing Up with Famous Fathers by Joshua David Stein
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

Short Stories
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
A House is a Body by Shruti Swamy
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: A Collection of Victorian-Era Detective Stories by G.K. Chesteron
Women on Top by Michelle Miller

Young Adult/Middle Grade
Broken Strings by Eric Walters
Curse of the Night Witch by Alex Aster
A Life, Redefined by Tracy Hewitt Meyer
The Lucky Ones by Liz Lawson