I set a goal of reading 75 books and I read 91, plus some ARCs not listed here and a million student responses. So! A lot of reading. It was a good year, by that metric alone.
Here's the list, in December-January order: 91. Stay Awake by Megan Goldin 90. Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West 89. Find Me by Anne Frasier 88. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones 87. The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavincencio 86. What’s Done in Darkness by Laura McHugh 85. Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah 84. Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker 83. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel 82. The Overnight Guest by Heather Gudenkauf 81. House of Correction by Nicci French 80. What You Wish For by Katherine Center 79. The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth 78. Bone Canyon by Lee Goldberg 77. Lost Hills by Lee Goldberg 76. What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster 75. A Nearly Normal Family by M. T. Edvardsson 74. Who is Maud Dixon? By Alexandra Andrews 73. Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger 72. The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee 71. Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan 70. Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurlan 69. We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper 68. The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline 67. America Pacifica by Anna North 66. All the Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth 65. Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich 64. No Hiding in Boise by Kim Hooper 63. Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau 62. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin 61. The Talented Miss Farwell by Emily Gray Tedrowe 60. Call Me Elizabeth Lark by Melissa Colasanti 59. The Last by Hanna Jameson 58. Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener 57. We Run the Tides by Vendela Vida 56. The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz 55. The Last Story of Mira Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim 54. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe 53. You Will Remember Me by Hannah Mary McKinnon 52. The Animals by Christian Kiefer 51. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 50. All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage 49. Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore 48. Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam 47. Before and After by Rosellen Brown 46. Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salasses 45. When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain 44. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 43. Broken People by Sam Lansky 42. The Monsters We Make by Kali White 41. A Dark and Secret Place by Jen Williams 40. The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2020 by Lawrence Harbison 39. Contemporary Monologues for Twentysomethings by Jessica Bashline 38. Know My Name by Chanel Miller 37. His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie 37. The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee 36. The Book of Delights by Ross Gay 35. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone by Heather McGhee 34. Saving Beck by Courtney Cole 33. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah 32. Blindness by Jose Saramago 31. Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica 30. Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 29. We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver 28. Lakewood by Megan Giddings 27. Utopia by Thomas More 26. The End of Policing by Alex Vitale 25. The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner 24. The Truth About Melody Browne by Lisa Jewell 23. Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman 22. In Her Bones by Kate Moretti 21. Hunger by Roxane Gay 20. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett 19. The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner 18. The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins 17. The Absolutist by John Boyne 16. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips 15. The Gone Dead by Chanelle Benz 14. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes DuMez 13. Severance by Ling Ma 12. The Line that Held Us by David Joy 11. Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney 10. Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett 9. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent by Isabel Wilkerson 8. Americanah by Chimimandi Ngozi Adichie 7. City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert 6. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy 5. A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler 4. Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby 3. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep 2. Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn 1. All That Remains by Sue Black
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