The Books I Read in 2020
A complete list of what I read over the course of 2020
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World by Suzy Hansen
Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer by Maya Angelou
Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen
The Art of the Wasted Day by Patricia Hampl
Spiritual Exercises by Mark Yakich
Library of Small Catastrophes by Alison C. Rollins
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
Alice’s Adventures Underground by Lewis Carroll
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Minimally Effective by J. Arthur Weber
We’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union
The Au Pair by Emma Rous
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz
Queenie by Candice Carey-Williams
Naturally Tan by Tan France
Sweet Better by Stephanie Danler
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly
Circe by Madeline Miller
The Ash Family by Molly Dektar
Trauma Stewardship: an Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky
American Street by Ibi Zoboi
Life of the Party: Poems by Olivia Gatwood
There There by Tommy Orange
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd
Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice by Brené Brown
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love by Nina Renata Aron
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power to Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive by Marc Brackett
More Myself: A Journey by Alicia Keys
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard by Jennifer Pastiloff
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
Normal People by Sally Rooney
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson
On Becoming a Person by Carl R. Rogers
How to Breathe: 25 Simple Practices for Calm, Joy, and Resilience by Ashley Neese
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
Like a Bird by Fariha Róisín
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot
Grimm’s Fairy Tales by the Grimm Brothers
A Gentlemen in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde By Audre Lorde
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Private Means by Cree Leavour
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
How to Not Get Shot: And Other Advice from White People by D. L. Hughley, Doug Moe