My 2020 Reading List

Written By Jill Burkey

Here is a list of books I read and enjoyed in 2020:

  • Braving the Wilderness - Brene Brown - memoir / self-help

  • Present Over Perfect - Shauna Niequist - collection of essays

  • The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah - WWII historical fiction novel

  • Dare to Lead - Brene Brown - leadership / motivational

  • Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens - novel

  • Midnight in Chernobyl - Adam Higginbotham - historical narrative

  • The Book of Gutsy Women - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton - biography

  • John Adams - David McCullough - biography

  • The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank - diary/biography/history

  • All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr - WWII historical fiction novel

  • Sisters First - Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush - memoir

  • American Spirit - David McCullough - collection of speeches by David McCullough, Pulitzer Prize winning historian

  • The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates - novel

  • Everything Beautiful in Its Time - Jenna Bush Hager - memoir

  • A Higher Call - Adam Makos - biography of two opposing WWII pilots

  • Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides - novel

  • Girl Wash Your Face - Rachel Hollis - memoir / self-help

  • On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King - memoir / writing

  • Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race - Debby Irving - memoir

  • Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda - poetry

  • The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison - novel

  • Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro - novel

  • The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy - spirituality / philosophy

  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou - memoir

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