Wednesday, January 6, 2021

2020 Books

Posting quickly so I can update the list for 2021. 

001. The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Junauda Petrus
002. So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
003. Little Weirds, Jenny Slate
004. Winterwood, Shea Ernshaw
005. The Body in Question, Jill Ciment
006. Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi
007. How We Fight for Our Lives, Saeed Jones
008. The Beautiful, Renee Ahdieh
009. The Night Country, Melissa Albert
010. Before and After: The Incredible Stories of Orphans Who Survived the Tennessee Children's Home Society, Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate
011. The Last True Poets of the Sea, Julia Drake
012. Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger, Lucy Dancyger, ed.
013. Perfect Little Children, Sophie Hannah
014. Old Bones, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
015. Made for Love, Alissa Nutting
016. Vita Nostra, Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, translated by Julia Meitov Hersey
017. Good Girls Lie, J.T. Ellison
018. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
019. The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife, Lucy Cooke
020. Strung Out: One Last Hit and Other Lies That Nearly Killed Me, Erin Khar
021. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
022. Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood, Rose George
023. No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America, Darnell L. Moore
024. The Secret Lives of Color, Kassia St. Clair
025. Sparrow Hill Road, Seanan McGuire
026. Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales, Dr. Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson
027. Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, Pam Houston
028. Middlegame, Seanan McGuire
029. Little, Edward Carey
030. The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders
031. Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid
032. The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi
033. All Over the Place: Adventures in Travel, True Love, and Petty Theft, Geraldine DeRuiter
034. The Book Charmer, Karen Hawkins
035. Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language, Amanda Montell
036. Day Zero, Kelly DeVos
037. Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim, Leah Vernon
038. The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old, translated by Hester Velmans
039. There Will Be No Miracles Here, Casey Gerald
040. No Country for Old Gnomes, Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne
041. The Red Pencil, Andrea Davis Pinkney
042. Upright Women Wanted, Sarah Gailey
043. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, Margaret Renkl
044. Gold Rush Girl, Avi
045. Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, T. Kira Madden
046. The View From Flyover Country: Dispatches From the Forgotten America, Sarah Kendzior
047. Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid
048. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
049. A Thousand Fires, Shannon Price
050. A Crown of Wishes, Roshani Chokshi
051. Emmy in the Key of Code, Aimee Lucido
052. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi
053. The Beekeeper of Aleppo, Christy Lefteri
054. House of Salt and Sorrows, Erin A. Craig
055. Docile, K.M. Szpara
056. Buzz Sting Bite: Why We Need Insects, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, translated by Lucy Moffatt
057. The Black God's Drums, P. Djèlí Clark
058. Crying Laughing, Lance Rubin
059. The Editor, Steven Rowley
060. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
061. Everywhere You Don't Belong, Gabriel Bump
062. The Pinks: The First Women Detectives, Operatives, and Spies with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, Chris Enss
063. Three Women, Lisa Taddeo
064. The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Nghi Vo
065. Riot Baby, Tochi Onyebuchi
066. Real Men Knit, Kwana Jackson
067. I'm Not Dying with You Tonight, Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal
068. The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live, Heather B. Armstrong
069. A World Without Bees, Allison Benjamin and Brian McCallum
070. Orphan Eleven, Gennifer Choldenko
071. The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, Michael Zapata
072. The Princess Beard, Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne
073. A River of Royal Blood, Amanda Joy
074. The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health, David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé
075. Forest of a Thousand Lanterns, Julie C. Dao
076. The Deep, Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes
077. Afterlife, Julia Alvarez
078. Friday Black, Nana Kwame Adjeh-Brenyah
079. Saving Ruby King, Catherine Adel West
080. Real Life, Brandon Taylor
081. In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado
082. Meaty, Samantha Irby
083. Luster, Raven Leilani
084. Weather, Jenny Offill
085. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
086. Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado
087. Conjure Women, Afia Atakora
088. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong
089. Crooked Hallelujah, Kelli Jo Ford
090. Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson
091. A Blade So Black, L.L. McKinney
092. The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, Maggie Tokuda-Hall
093. A Song Below Water, Bethany C. Morrow
094. Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton
095. A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home, Nicole Chung and Mensah Demary, eds.
096. The Dreamers, Karen Thompson Walker
097. Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, Philip Cushway and Michael Warr, eds
098. Make Russia Great Again, Christopher Buckley
099. I Wanna Be Where You Are, Kristina Forest
100. Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha, eds.
101. More Than Maybe, Erin Hahn
102. Verge, Lidia Yuknavitch
103. When We Were Magic, Sarah Gailey
104. Light From Other Stars, Erika Swyler
105. The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue
106. Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz
107. Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco, Alia Volz
108. A Madness of Angels, Or, The Resurrection of Matthew Swift, Kate Griffin
109. Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It, Kamal Ravikant
110. The Color of Air, Gail Tsukiyama
111. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, Laura Spinney
122. The Midnight Library, Matt Haig
123. The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, Mona Eltahawy
124. The War That Saved My Life, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
125. The War I Finally Won, Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
126. Find Layla, Meg Elison
127. African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, A Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan, Thomas Lockley and Geoffrey Girard.
128. Anxious People, Fredrik Backman
129. Early Departures, Justin A. Reynolds
130. Legendborn, Tracy Deonn
131. Let's Never Talk About This Again, Sara Faith Alterman
132. His Only Wife, Peace Adzo Medie
133. Ties That Tether, Jane Igharo
134. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed.
135. Cinderella Is Dead, Kalynn Bayron
136. The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, Zen Cho
137. The Age of Phillis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
138. The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing, Mira Jacob
139. Hench, Natalie Zina Walschots
140. The Expats, Chris Pavone
141. The Paris Diversion, Chris Pavone
142. The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here, Hope Jahren
143. A Million Aunties, Alecia McKenzie
144. Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender
145. All Your Twisted Secrets, Diana Urban
146. The Office of Historical Corrections, Danielle Evans
147. Trust Exercise, Susan Choi
148. Particulate Matter, Felicia Luna Lemus
149. Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark
150. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deesha Philyaw
151. This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story, Kacen Callender
152. He Started It, Samantha Downing
153. Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity, Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods
154. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century, Charles King
155. Beasts Made of Night, Tochi Onyebuchi
156. Crown of Thunder, Tochi Onyebuchi
157. Mean, Myriam Gurba
158. The Freezer Door, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
159. Trouble the Saints, Alaya Dawn Johnson
160. Lay Me Down Among the Words: A Collection of Poetry by a Trauma Survivor Whose Inner Voice Saved Her Life, Deborah Hallal Bradt, R.Y.T.

No comments: