2020 Reads Recap
- Brittany Artz
- Dec 31, 2020
- 3 min read
For the first time ever, I actually made a list of the books I read this year. No, I didn't keep a running list throughout the year - that would've been too easy. Instead, I spent today (the last day of the year) compiling the list.
I had no idea how many books I read before making the list. I would've guessed...maybe 25.
BUT I read 38 books this year! THIRTY EIGHT! (full list at the very end of this post if you're curious)
Here's My Top 6 Reads of 2020 (in no particular order):
Life Is A Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance - Matt Fitzgerald
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah
Sadie - Courtney Summers
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World - Tim Marshall
Win At All Costs: Inside Nike Running and Its Culture of Deception - Matt Hart
Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park - Conor Knighton
And, here are some books that I'm looking forward to reading in 2021:
A Promised Land - Barack Obama (I've started this one, but it's definitely going to take me a while to read.)
The Comeback Quotient: A Get-Real Guide to Building Mental Fitness in Sport and Life - Matt Fitzgerald (I've also already started this one.)
Who Gets in and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions - Jeffrey Selingo
The Cousins - Karen M. McManus (came out December 1st)
Good Girl, Bad Blood: The Sequel to a Good Girl's Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson (comes out March 2, 2021)
How many books did you read this year? What were some of your favorites? What are you looking forward to reading in 2021?
FULL LIST OF BOOKS I READ IN 2020 (also in no particular order):
One of Us Is Next: The Sequel to One of Us Is Lying - Karen M. McManus
The Body: A Guide for Occupants - Bill Bryson
What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding: A Memoir - Kristin Newman
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann
Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land - Noe Alvarez
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
Truly Devious: A Mystery - Maureen Johnson
The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious, 2) - Maureen Johnson
The Hand on the Wall (Truly Devious, 3) - Maureen Johnson
A Question of Holmes - Brittany Cavallaro
Scammed (Vale Hall, 2) - Kristen Simmons
Sadie - Courtney Summers
Genuine Fraud - E. Lockhart
We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World - Tim Marshall
The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate - Robert D. Kaplan
The Distance Learning Playbook: Teaching for Engagement & Impact in Any Setting - Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie
Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving - Mo Rocca
The Boyfriend List - E. Lockhart
The Boy Book - E. Lockhart
A Treasure Map of Boys - E. Lockhart
Real Live Boyfriends - E. Lockhart
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks - E. Lockhart
A Flag Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of National Symbols - Tim Marshall
The Name of the Star (The Shades of London) - Maureen Johnson
Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park - Conor Knighton
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder - Holly Jackson
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah
Running the Dream: One Summer Living, Training, and Racing with a Team of World-Class Runners Half My Age - Matt Fitzgerald
The Rise of Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance - Adharanand Finn
Running Wild: A Quest for Healing Across 7 Continents - Bobby O’Donnell
The Inheritance Games - Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Conspiracy of Us - Maggie Hall
Map of Fates - Maggie Hall
The Ends of the World - Maggie Hall
Don’t Go There: From Chernobyl to North Korea - one man’s quest to lose himself and find everyone else, in the world’s strangest places - Adam Fletcher
Life Is A Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance - Matt Fitzgerald
Win At All Costs: Inside Nike Running and Its Culture of Deception - Matt Hart
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