Reading List 2020

Here's an archived copy of my reading list for this year. I'll be keeping up the new list here: http://mlisunderstanding.blogspot.com/p/reading-list.html

I would recommend the bolded titles with enthusiasm, and I enjoyed the italicized titles but probably wouldn't read them again.


Read in 2020:
1. La Línea, by Ann Jaramillo
2. Home for Erring and Outcast Girls, by Julie Kibler
3. Black Light, by Kimberly King Parsons
4. Small as an Elephant, by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
5. Hiking Naked: A Quaker Woman's Search for Balance, by Iris Graville
5.1.* Notes from a Small Island, by Bill Bryson 
5.2.* Because You're Mine, by Rea Frey
6. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, by Mira Jacob
7. Pet, by Akwaeke Emezi
7.1.* Chop Suey, USA: The Story of Chinese Food in America, by Yong Chen
8. Stay and Fight, by Madeline ffitch
9. The Mother-In-Law, by Sally Hepworth
10. Upright Women Wanted, by Sarah Gailey 
11. The Importance of Being Little: What Young Children Really Need from Grownups, by Erika Christakis 
12. Never Have I Ever, by Joshilyn Jackson
13. Mostly White, by Alison Hart
13.1.* Natural Born Learners: Unschooling and Autonomy in Education, edited by Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko and Carlo Ricci 
14. The Queen's Bargain, by Anne Bishop
[The War That Saved My Life, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley]
[The War I Finally Won, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley]
15. Food Security for the Faint of Heart: Keeping Your Larder Full in Lean Times, by Robin Wheeler
16. Samantha's Story Collection, by Susan S. Adler, Maxine Rose Schur, and Valerie Tripp
17. I Can Make This Promise, by Christine Day
18. The Journey of Little Charlie, by Christopher Paul Curtis
18.1.* Too Afraid to Cry: Memoir of a Stolen Childhood, by Ali Cobby Eckermann
18.2.* Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart, by Candace Fleming
[Harbor Me, by Jacqueline Woodson]
19. Every Boy Should Have a Man, by Preston L. Allen
20. Summer of the Gypsy Moths, by Sara Pennypacker
21. The First Day, by little0bird
22. The Best Revenge, by Arsinoe de Blassenville
23. The Best Revenge: Time of the Basilisk, by Arsinoe de Blassenville
[Just After Sunset, by Stephen King]
24. Two Naomis, by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and Audrey Vernick
25. The Secret Mother, by Shalini Boland
26. Lost Child: The True Story of a Girl Who Couldn't Ask for Help, by Torey Hayden
27. Rush, by Lisa Patton
27.2.* What to Expect the Second Year: From 12 to 24 Months, by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel
28. Cheaper by the Dozen, by Frank Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth

28.1.* The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being, by Simone Davies

28.2.* Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, by Randall Munroe

29. Beginnings, edited by David Weber

30. Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life, by Betty Reid Soskin

31. Gone Crazy in Alabama, by Rita Garcia-Williams
31.1.* How to Be a Perfect Stranger: The Essential Religious Etiquette Handbook, edited by Stuart M. Matlins and Arthur J. Magida
32. The Guest Cottage, by Nancy Thayer

32.2.* On Sondheim: An Opinionated Guide, by Ethan Mordden

33. Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King, by Lisa Rogak

33.2.* A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages, by Kristin Chenoweth with Joni Rodgers

34. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know, by Malcolm Gladwell

35. Homeland, by Barbara Hambly

36. Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir, by Ruth Reichl

36.1.* Eden Close, by Anita Shreve

37. If It Bleeds, by Stephen King

38. The Fire Rose, by Mercedes Lackey

39. Steadfast, by Mercedes Lackey

40. The Length of a String, by Elissa Brent Weissman

41.  'Salem's Lot, by Stephen King
42. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish, by Pablo Cartaya

43. Eventown, by Corey Ann Haydu

44. Saving Baby Doe, by Danette Vigilante

45. Akin, by Emma Donoghue

46. Our Own Private Universe, by Robin Talley

47. 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement, by Jane Ziegelman

48. Pavi Sharma's Guide to Going Home, by Bridget Farr

49. Silence, by Mercedes Lackey and Cody Martin

50. A School for Unusual Girls, by Kathleen Baldwin

[More Than Honor, edited by David Weber]
50.1.* A Good Place to Hide: How One French Community Saved Thousands of Lives During World War II, by Peter Grose 

51. The Summer We Found the Baby, by Amy Hest
52. As I Descended, by Robin Talley

53. March, by Geraldine Brooks

54. In Fire Forged, edited by David Weber
[Changer of Worlds, edited by David Weber]
55. Pretty Things, by Janelle Brown

[Beauty, by Robin McKinley]

55.1.* Pizza Girl, by Jean Kyoung Frazier

[Juniper, by Monica Furlong]

[Worlds of Honor, edited by David Weber]

[The Service of the Sword, edited by David Weber]

55.2.* The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket, by Benjamin Lorr
56. Thirteenth Child, by Patricia C. Wrede

57. Fighting Words, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

58. The Turn of the Key, by Ruth Ware

59. The Pull of the Stars, by Emma Donoghue

[Freckles, by Gene Stratton-Porter]

60. Supernova Era, by Cixin Liu, translated by Joel Martinsen

61. Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater, by Eddie Shapiro

62. Takedown, by Laura Shovan

63. The House Girl, by Tara Conklin

*I started reading these fractional selections, but couldn't finish (or haven't yet). If I do finish one, it will get its own whole-numbered slot later in the list. If not, it will languish in the interstitial.

[These selections are re-reads that I completed in full. They don't count as new books.]

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