75 Books...More or Less! discussion

BOOKS of 2020


JANUARY
1. Becoming - Michelle Obama
2. The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton
3. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
4. A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum
5. Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen
6. The Water-Method Man - John Irving
Pages: 2,313

FEBRUARY
7. The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough
8. Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
9. The Known World - Edward P. Jones
10. Recipe for a Perfect Wife - Karma Brown
11. Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
12. The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard
13. The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins
14. No Man Knows My History - Fawn M. Brodie
15. Native Son - Richard Wright
16. Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward
17. Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
18. A Novel Bookstore - Laurence Cossé
Pages: 4,299

MARCH
19. My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
20. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
21. Sarah's Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
22. The Uncoupling - Meg Wolitzer
23. Middlemarch - George Eliot
24. The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne
25. World War Z - Max Brooks
26. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Pages: 2,964

APRIL
27. Pandemic 1918 - Catharine Arnold
28. My Absolute Darling - Gabriel Tallent
29. Orphan Train - Christina Baker Kline
30. Pan - Knut Hamsun
Pages: 1,115

MAY
31. The Alice Network - Kate Quinn
32. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
33. A Devil Comes to Town - Paolo Maurensig
Pages: 1,119

JUNE
34. The House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende
35. The Dark Half - Stephen King
36. A Burning - Megha Majumdar
37. So We Can Glow - Leesa Cross-Smith
Pages: 1,474

JULY
38. Real Life - Brandon Taylor
39. The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
40. Passing - Nella Larsen
41. The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
42. How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
43. Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Pages: 1,533

AUGUST
44. The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon
Pages: 827

SEPTEMBER
45. White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo
46. Assata - Assata Shakur
47. Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi
48. Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
49. Nothing to See Here - Kevin Wilson
Pages: 1,282

Yearly Page Total: 16,926

1. Becoming by Michelle Obama
Crown, 2018
421 p.
Read 1/3/20
5 Stars

Charity wrote: "

1. Becoming by Michelle Obama
Crown, 2018
421 p.
Read 1/3/20
5 Stars"

Oh what a great book to start off the year! I loved it as well. I listened to the audiobook a few weeks ago. I never wanted it to end.

I knew I wanted to kick off the year with something great and this was just the ticket!

2. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
HarperCollins, 2014
392 p.
Read 1/4/20
4 Stars

Charity wrote: "

2. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
HarperCollins, 2014
392 p.
Read 1/4/20
4 Stars"

This has been on my TBR for far too long. Moving it to my To Read Soon list!

Now I need to watch the PBS miniseries!

Charity wrote: "Now I need to watch the PBS miniseries!"

There's a miniseries?! I had no idea!

I’ll have to check it out!

3. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Barnes & Noble, 1837-39
470 p.
Read 1/11/20
4 Stars

Charity wrote: "

3. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Barnes & Noble, 1837-39
470 p.
Read 1/11/20
4 Stars"

I have never read Oliver Twist...!

It was a fun read!

Charity wrote: "

3. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Barnes & Noble, 1837-39
470 p.
Read 1/11/20
4 Stars"

I enjoyed Oliver Twist, too. If you have Audible, they have an Audible Original called Dodge & Twist by Tony Lee. The story takes place twelve years after the original story. It was amusing.

4. A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
HarperCollins, 2019
337 p.
Read 1/28/20
5 Stars

5. Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
Translated from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally
Penguin, 1835-72
421 p.
Read 1/30/20
4 Stars

6. The Water-Method Man by John Irving
Ballantine, 1972
272 p.
Read 1/31/20
1 Star

Charity wrote: "

4. A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
HarperCollins, 2019
337 p.
Read 1/28/20
5 Stars"

I have heard so many great things about this book! I can't wait for my hold to be available.

7. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Macdonald Futura, 1977
591 p.
Read 2/5/20
4 Stars

Charity wrote: "

7. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Macdonald Futura, 1977
591 p.
Read 2/5/20
4 Stars"

Oh I bought this one at a library sale last year! I should read it.

A Woman is No Man and The Thorn Birds are both great reads!

8. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Spiegel & Grau, 2016
285 p.
Read 2/7/20
4 Stars

Charity wrote: "

8. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Spiegel & Grau, 2016
285 p.
Read 2/7/20
4 Stars"

I loved this book on audio!!

Charity wrote: "

8. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Spiegel & Grau, 2016
285 p.
Read 2/7/20
4 Stars"

I have been meaning to read this for so long, but I prefer listening to the audio for memoirs, and my library only has the audio on CD, not on Overdrive. I really need to get over the inconvenience and just do it.

9. The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Amistad, 2003
388 p.
Read 2/9/20
2 Stars

10. Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown
Dutton, 2020
317 p.
Read 2/10/20
3 Stars

11. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Vintage, 2018
384 p.
Read 2/13/20
4 Stars

12. The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003
278 p.
Read 2/14/20
1 Star

13. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Broadway, 2015
388 p.
Read 2/19/20
5 Stars

Charity wrote: "

13. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Broadway, 2015
388 p.
Read 2/19/20
5 Stars"

I also just read this! It was so frickin weird. lol.

14. No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn M. Brodie
Vintage, 1945
404 p.
Read 2/20/20
3 Stars

15. Native Son by Richard Wright
Harper Perennial, 1940
430 p.
Read 2/23/20
4 Stars

16. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Scribner, 2017
285 p.
Read 2/25/20
3 Stars

Charity wrote: "

16. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Scribner, 2017
285 p.
Read 2/25/20
3 Stars"

This one was a really tough read for me, but I did enjoy the bleakness and how Ward's language choices matched that feeling.

17. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
Enriched Classics, 1913
133 p.
Read 2/26/20
3 Stars

18. A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé
Translated from the French by Alison Anderson
Europa, 2009
416 p.
Read 2/29/20
5 Stars

Charity wrote: "

18. A Novel Bookstore by Laurence Cossé
Translated from the French by Alison Anderson
Europa, 2009
416 p.
Read 2/29/20
5 Stars"

Oh this sounds so good! Added to TBR!

19. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Anchor, 2018
223 p.
Read 3/1/20
4 Stars

Charity wrote: "

19. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Anchor, 2018
223 p.
Read 3/1/20
4 Stars"

I keep meaning to read this! I have it as audiobook from the
library right now.

20. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Bantam, 1899
153 p.
Read 3/2/20
2 Stars

21. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
St. Martin's Griffin, 2007
293 p.
Read 3/4/20
2 Stars

22. The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
Riverhead, 2011
271 p.
Read 3/7/20
3 Stars

23. Middlemarch by George Eliot
Modern Library, 1871-72
799 p.
Read 3/19/20
3 Stars

24. The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Hogarth, 2017
580 p.
Read 3/28/20
5 Stars

25. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
Three Rivers, 2006
420 p.
Read 3/30/20
3 Stars

26. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Translated from the Russian by Clarence Brown
Penguin, 1924
225 p.
Read 3/31/20
3 Stars

27. Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History by Catharine Arnold
St. Martin's Press, 2018
299 p.
Read 4/13/20
4 Stars

28. My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
Riverhead, 2017
417 p.
Read 4/28/20
3 Stars

29. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
William Morrow, 2013
273 p.
Read 4/29/20
4 Stars

30. Pan by Knut Hamsun
Translated from the Norwegian by Sverre Lyngstad
Penguin, 1894
126 p.
Read 4/30/20
3 Stars

Charity wrote: "

Charity, this is one of my moms all time favorite books.