I see so many posts online from friends asking for new book recommendations, so here’s a list of the books I’ve read in 2020 — I hope you can find something to spark your interest.

I’ve only added the books I’ve enjoyed; no sense in sharing the others. For the full list you can see them on my Goodreads Challenge, both the good and the bad.

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• The Road – Cormac McCarthy
• The Tail of Emily Windsnap – Liz Kessler
• A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J Maas
• The Lost Hero – Rick Riordan
• The Glass Hotel – Emily St John Mandel
• Run Away – Harlan Coben
• The Last Wish – Andrzej Sapkowski
• Seveneves – Neal Stephenson
• The Girl with the Louding Voice – Abi Dare
• Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng
• The Alice Network – Kate Quinn
• The Black Jewels Series – Anne Bishop (I’ve read #1-10, except for #4 which I can’t find online or at the library – omg addicted to these)
• Blood of Elves – Andrzej Sapkowski
• The Starless Sea – Erin Morgenstern
• Panther Baby – Jamal Joseph
• Dune – Frank Herbert
• Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo
• Station Eleven – Emily St. John Mandel
• Gideon the Ninth – Tamsyn Muir
• Red Mars – Kim Stanley Robinson (currently reading Green Mars)
• The Giver of Stars – Jojo Moyes
• The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
• The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern
• One Good Deed – David Baldacci
• Altered Carbon – Richard K. Morgan
• The Boy from the Woods – Harlan Coben
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris
• The Giver – Lois Lowry
• A Long Petal of the Sea – Isabel Allende
• Less – Andrew Sean Greer
• Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
• The Good Lord Bird – James McBride
• The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper – Hallie Rubenhold
• Children of Virtue and Vengeance – Tomi Adeyemi
• A Discovery of Witches – Deborah Harkness
• Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
• Along Came a Spider – James Patterson
• Mercy – Jodi Picoult
• True Grit – Charles Portis
• The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
• No Country for Old Men – Cormac McCarthy
• Change of Heart – Jodi Picoult
• Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
• High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
• Daughter of Molokai – Alan Brennert
• Ninth House – Leigh Bardugo
• Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
• And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
• The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
• The Darkest Minds – Alexandra Bracken
• The Rules of Magic – Alice Hoffman
• Daisy Jones & The Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Institute – Stephen King
• A Beautiful Mind – Sylvia Nasar
• State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts – Nick Hornby
• Practical Magic – Alice Hoffman
• The Testaments – Margaret Atwood
• Funny Girl – Nick Hornby
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman
• Kopp Sisters Series – Amy Stewart (not #6 yet)
• A Rage in Harlem – Chester Himes
• Verses for the Dead – Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
• Chief Inspector Armand Gamache Series – Louise Penny (not #16 yet)
• The Reckoning – John Grisham
• The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
• Lincoln Rhyme Series – Jeffery Deaver (most of them)
• Nine Perfect Strangers – Liane Moriarty
• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton
• Drip: A Gothic Bromance – Andrew Montlack
• The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
• The Eye of the World – Robert Jordan
• Joyland – Stephen King
• A Spark of Light – Jodi Picoult
• Wonton Terror – Vivien Chien
• The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Mystery of the Rainbow Flowers – Melissa Burovac (of course!)

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This isn’t a list of my favorite books of all time, although some of them have been added to it (The Inspector Gamache Series!). Maybe that will be my next list.

I hope you can find something interesting and new to read, and remember: supporting authors is not only buying books, but getting them from your library as well. Don’t forget to leave reviews!

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Read a good book lately? I’d love to hear about it in the comments!

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Add these to your reading list (and request them at your local library):

• The Mystery of the Rainbow Flowers – middle grade adventure
• Wandering – non-fiction travel/adventure/humor
• Sylvie Writes a Romance – romantic comedy
• Sylvie Falls in Love – romantic comedy part 2
• Surfer, Sailor, Smuggler – adventure/ocean fiction based on true stories from Hawaii and beyond