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These are the books I HAVE to read in 2020... I will likely read a lot more, but this is just the start. Feel free to add any suggestions to this list by commenting or adding a book to the list.
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The Sun Down Motel
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Simone St. James (Goodreads Author)
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The Wild Life of the Fox
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John Lewis-Stempel (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Mexican Gothic
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Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 423,939 ratings
score: 187,
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Migrations
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Charlotte McConaghy (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 95,147 ratings
score: 186,
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Recursion
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Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 299,563 ratings
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The Dawn of Evil (The Wages of Sin, #5)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.55 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Haunting of Maddy Clare
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Simone St. James (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 34,026 ratings
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Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
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Andrew Peterson (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 6,718 ratings
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The Birth of Death (The Wages of Sin, #4)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 41 ratings
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A House of Ghosts
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3.66 avg rating — 5,591 ratings
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Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
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4.56 avg rating — 27,511 ratings
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The Fall of Innocence (The Wages of Sin, #3)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.54 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 98,
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The Guest List
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Lucy Foley (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 1,239,738 ratings
score: 98,
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Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
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4.48 avg rating — 6,196 ratings
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The Wrath of Truth (The Wages of Sin, #2)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Queen of Paris: A Novel of Coco Chanel
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Pamela Binnings Ewen (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 6,051 ratings
score: 97,
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Becoming
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Michelle Obama (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 1,172,940 ratings
score: 96,
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The Devil's Advocate (The Wages of Sin, #1)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 80 ratings
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What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
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4.21 avg rating — 2,814 ratings
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Lady Clementine
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Marie Benedict (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 32,834 ratings
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Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)
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Heather Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 211,358 ratings
score: 95,
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The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi
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4.03 avg rating — 3,774 ratings
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All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small, #3-4)
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4.35 avg rating — 82,591 ratings
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The Sixth Wife (Tudor Saga, #7)
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3.94 avg rating — 2,943 ratings
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Queen Victoria and The Romanovs: Sixty Years of Mutual Distrust
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4.09 avg rating — 177 ratings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,384,225 ratings
score: 93,
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100 Ways to Be Kind: Everyday actions to change your life and save the world
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3.40 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Secret Life of the Savoy
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3.61 avg rating — 721 ratings
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Us Against You (Beartown, #2)
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Fredrik Backman (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 244,949 ratings
score: 92,
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The Last of the Firedrakes (The Avalonia Chronicles, #1)
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Farah Oomerbhoy (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 3,751 ratings
score: 92,
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The Midnight Library
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Matt Haig (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 2,345,591 ratings
score: 92,
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Ember Rising (The Green Ember, #3)
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S.D. Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.58 avg rating — 7,118 ratings
score: 91,
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The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society
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3.21 avg rating — 907 ratings
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In Love and War
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Liz Trenow (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 1,588 ratings
score: 91,
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American Dirt
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Jeanine Cummins (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 668,303 ratings
score: 90,
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The Nakano Thrift Shop
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3.37 avg rating — 14,710 ratings
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The Bridge
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Enza Gandolfo (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 680 ratings
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Do Greater Things: Activating the Kingdom to Heal the Sick and Love the Lost
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4.52 avg rating — 87 ratings
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The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino
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3.44 avg rating — 7,071 ratings
score: 89,
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I've Seen the End of You: A Neurosurgeon's Look at Faith, Doubt, and the Things We Think We Know
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W. Lee Warren (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 1,830 ratings
score: 88,
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The Microbe Factor: & Enzymes that Switch on Your Innate Immunity
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4.07 avg rating — 232 ratings
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Pandemic: The Spanish Flu in Australia 1918-20
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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4.36 avg rating — 263,863 ratings
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Sad Janet
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3.32 avg rating — 2,824 ratings
score: 87,
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The Hunting Party
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Lucy Foley (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 348,257 ratings
score: 87,
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The Lion and the Lamb
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Charles Causey (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 100 ratings
score: 86,
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Thrawn: Treason (Star Wars: Thrawn, #3)
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Timothy Zahn (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 25,857 ratings
score: 85,
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Compound Fractures (Alan Gregory, #20)
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3.74 avg rating — 2,011 ratings
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Educated
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Tara Westover (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 1,803,111 ratings
score: 84,
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The Cats of Tanglewood Forest
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Charles de Lint (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 2,546 ratings
score: 84,
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Last Scene Alive (Aurora Teagarden Mystery, #7)
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Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 16,713 ratings
score: 83,
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A Dangerous Fortune
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 55,672 ratings
score: 82,
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One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9)
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Lee Child (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 124,419 ratings
score: 81,
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Unnatural Habits (Phryne Fisher, #19)
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4.13 avg rating — 5,896 ratings
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