What I Read in 2020

Another year has gone, and another year is here. It’s time to go back over what I’ve read in 2020.

I can’t quite believe I managed to read over 100 books in 2020! I thought my Goodreads Reading Goal would be a bit of a stretch. But, I managed to read my 100th book in October and read a further fourteen books in the following few weeks.

What I read in 2020

I’ve split the books I’ve read into several genres so you have a better idea of what I read in 2020.

Psychological Thrillers

• Her Last Holiday by C.L. Taylor
• My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Girl A by Abigail Dean
• I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
• This Is How It Ends by Eva Dolan
• The Vow by Debbie Howells
• The Heatwave by Katerina Diamond

Women’s Fiction & Romance

• Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
• Beach Read by Emily Henry
• Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
• The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
• The High Moments by Sara-Ella Ozbek
• A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
• The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
• The Lonely Fajita by Abigail Mann
• Olive by Emma Gannon
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• Adults by Emma Jane Unsworth
• The Love Square by Laura Jane Williams

Historical Fiction

• For the Winner by Emily Hauser
• Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
• Troy by Stephen Fry
• Girl Meets Boy by Ali Smith
• The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
• Zeus is a Dick by Susie Donkin
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
• Heroes by Stephen Fry
• Mythos by Stephen Fry
• The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
• The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
• Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
• Weight by Jeanette Winterson
• Sacred Bride by David Hair & Cath Mayo
• Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Classics

• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
• North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
• The Strange Case of Dr Jeykll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffman
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
• Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Anne of Avonlea by L. Maud Montgomery
• Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne Du Maurier

Crime & Mystery Fiction

• The Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie
• The Shadow Man by Helen Fields
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Literary Fiction

• Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• The New Me by Halle Butler
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
• Heatstroke by Hazel Barkworth
• Scenes of a Graphic Nature by Caroline O’Donoghue
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
• The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
• The Silent History by Donna Tartt
• Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
• The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais

Poetry, Novella & Short Stories

• Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola
• The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind
• The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
• Doomed Rolled in Glitter by Leena Norms
• Convenience Store Woman by Sakaya Murata
• Validate Me by Charley Cox
• Galatea by Madeline Miller

Autobiography & Memoir

• 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
• Dear Reader: The Comfort and Joy of Reading by Cathy Rentzenbrink
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle
• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Coming Undone by Terri White
• The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood
• Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Home Work by Julie Andrews
• Inside Out by Demi Moore
• Wine Girl by Victoria James
• Sounds Like Me by Sara Bareilles
• Wham! Me & George by Andrew Ridgeley
• Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
• Naturally Tan by Tan France

Young Adult

• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Non-Fiction

Including Feminism, Personal Development, Essays, Biography Careers and History

• Sabotage by Emma Gannon
• Failosophy by Elizabeth Day
• How Do We Know We’re Doing it Right by Pandora Sykes
• How to Own the Room by Viv Groskop
• The Good Immigrant edited by Nikesh Shukla
• Power Moves by Lauren McGoodwin
• House of Glass by Hadley Freeman
• The Ultimate Guide to Working From Home by Grace Paul
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Hollywood’s Eve by Lil Anolik
• A Good Time to be a Girl by Helena Morrisey
• My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams
• Burnout: The Stress Cycle by Emily Nagozi
• Feel It Out by Jordan Sandler
• I Carried a Watermelon by Katy Brand
• Modern Love by Daniel Rose
• Bookworm by Lucy Mangan
• Simply Clean by Becky Rapinchuk

What did you read in 2020? Did you hit your Goodreads Reading Challenge? Let me know in the comments below.

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