Favorite Books You've Read in 2020

[Sinisa]

The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story

I am adding this to the list, such a wonderful and emotional story it is a top recommend

[[deleted user]]

Some recent favorites:
Life After Life
The Signature of All Things
Remarkable Creatures
The People in the Trees
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

[Jessalyn]

The Lost Girls of Paris
The Gunslinger

[Keri]

Yeah? That sounds right up my alley! Thanks!

[Christine]

My favorite books so far this year have been:

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

My second 5-star read of the year:


Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Lizzy]

Finally got round to reading this and loved it!!!

[AurorainBookland]

The unicorn quest series books 1 & 2 by Kamilla Benko, love this series so far!

[Jodi]

Just finished an amazing thriller by a new author! A must read for the year.

The Silent Patient

[violets_booknook_]

My favourite book so far for this year is The Beekeeper of Aleppo

[Deborah]

So far for 2020 my 5 star reads:

[AurorainBookland]

The unicorn quest trilogy by Kamilla Benko

[Sarah. B]

Best book I've read so far this year has got to be London Belongs to Me I loved it

[AurorainBookland]

Squirrel meets world, the unbeatable squirrel girl novels book 1 by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale

[Jim]

I've read 43 books this year so far and three stand out.

The first is "The Cosmic Puppets" by Philip K. Dick in my goal to read and some cases all of PDK's novels in the order they were written, not published. This book was published in 1957 but was one the first couple of novels he wrote in 1953.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Sorry, I seem to have forgotten how to paste the actual link here.

It is a little different from other early novels I had read by him. There is a much bigger element of horror and fantasy than usual. I gave it 4 stars.

The second is "High Sierra" by W.R. Burnett from 1940. This is an excellent hard-boiled gangster novel that became a very good movie starring Humphrey Bogart. I gave it 4 stars.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

The third is "The Empty Trap" by John D. MacDonald from 1957. this is another excellent stand alone mystery story written by MacDonald in the 1950's before he developed his long running Travis McGee character. it is a classic example of roman noir. I gave it 4 stars.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

I am still looking for that 5 star novel that will top off my reading for 2020.

[Laureen]

My favorite books so far this year are (in no particular order):
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (classic!)

I loved all of these.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Jim wrote: "I've read 43 books this year so far and three stand out.

The first is "The Cosmic Puppets" by Philip K. Dick in my goal to read and some cases all of PDK's novels in the order they were written, ..."

I'm a big fan of PKD but I haven't read that one yet. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I have read other books by Burnett and MacDonald but not High Sierra or The Empty Trap. I'll have to look around for those.

[Fadi]

Best 3 books I read for this year:

[AurorainBookland]

Nim's Island by Wendy Orr, Nim book 1

And

The doughnut fix by Jessie Janowitz, the doughnut fix book 1

[Sudipa]

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

[AurorainBookland]

The Mystwick School of Musicraft
by Jessica Khoury - audiobook audible originals

[Lindsey]

Glitter by Aprilynne Pike

[Kristina]

My Favorite books for the first half of 2020 are

The City We Became
Interior Chinatown
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Astonishing Color of After
Nothing to See Here

I am finishing The Poppy War and this may be a 5 star read.

[Bookworm]

Finished 100 books on Friday. For the year.

Favourites:

- Drama
- Fantasy (low stakes)
- Dystopian
- Military Scifi

[Michelle]

Fiction:

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
An Act of Villainy by Ashley Weaver
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Nonfiction:

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
The Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerman
The Violonist's Thumb by Sam Kean
Spillover by David Quammen
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry
Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
The Wars of the Roses by Dan Jones
Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser

[Laureen]

Adding to my Message #66
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

[Kat]

My favorite fiction books so far this year:

The Silent Patient - I loved the plot twist!
Where the Forest Meets the Stars - like a warm, fuzzy hug in my heart
The Murmur of Bees - a main character that restores my faith in humanity

In non-fiction, my favorites are:

The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 - absolutely fascinating, and somehow heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time

One Child: The True Story of a Tormented Six-Year-Old and the Brilliant Teacher Who Reached Out - I work with kids, so this one hit me where I live

[AurorainBookland]

Nim at sea by Wendy Orr, Nim book 2

[Meera]

My favorites so far this year:


I've read books from different genres but looks like most of my favs are in the sci-fi/fantasy realm.

[AurorainBookland]

Cursed by Jen Calonita, fairy tale reform school book 6 last book in the series.

[AurorainBookland]

The Star Darlings series by Shana Muldoon Zappa & Ahmet Zappa

[AurorainBookland]

The unbeatable sqirrel girl novels by Shannon Hale & Dean Hale. I want to read the unbeatable squirrel girl comics

[Juliet]

My two favorites so far of this year have been

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Cinderella is Dead

[AurorainBookland]

Raising Lumie by Joan Bauer
Olive a middle school girl raises Lumie, a puppy to hopefully become a guide dog. Amazing book!

[Grace Anatomy]

1)Percy Jackson and the Olympians
2)stalking Jack the Ripper serie
3)Mundo Umbrio

[L Y N N]

These are my favorites for this year thus far, in chronological order by date read:
The Recipe Club: A Novel About Food and Friendship by Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel
The Sunday Lunch Club by Juliet Ashton
The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
The Martian by Andy Weir
Stargirl and Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinnelli
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut #1) by Mary Robinette Kowal (reread)
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (reread)

[Laureen]

i've loved many books I've read this year, but one of the nicest surprises was Saving Ruby King by Catherine Adel West. I listened to it and thought it was great.

[AurorainBookland]

Upside down magic series by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle and Emily Jenkins

This series is so good and cute and fun. Love the characters! And the magic.

Readimg book 4 now!

[Nightia]

At the moment my absolute favorite of the year is Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation:

It has more than 900 pages and I tackled in three days. If I say I'm obsessed it's an understatement.

[violets_booknook_]

My top three favourites this year:
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty

[AurorainBookland]

Song for a whale by Lynne Kelly, a delightful story about a deaf girl and a whale who sings a unique song. Love how Blue 55 was inspired by a real whale.

[Eva]

My favorites so far this year:

[AurorainBookland]

A boy called Bat 3 book series by Elena K. Arnold with pictures by Charles Santoso, such a fun quick series with the cutest art, never thought I'd call a skunk cute but here we are.
Happy reading!

[Alexallen8]

the first 5 books I've read.
Kamilla Benko's, the unicorn quest, 1. 2 and 3.
john green, the fault in the stars.
Melanie Dickerson. the silent songbird.
Rachel Renee. dork Diaries.
Nicola Yoon, everything, everything.

[Tara]

Severance by Ling Ma

The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell

[Irphen]

Some favourites so far:
-The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
-The steppe wolf by Hermann Hesse
-Boy Meets Depression: Or Life Sucks and Then You Live by Kevin Breel
-Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera
-Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
-Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
-Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

[Christina L.]

This year I have so many that I loved but my top 5 would be:

[Adrienne]

My five favorites are: , , , ,

[Nancy from NJ]

My five favorite books for 2020 are the following:

These are in order:
1.The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
2. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
3.The Pawnbroker
4.A Long Petal of the Ocean by Isabel Allende
5.The Pearl Sister by Lucinda Riley

[Leon]

The best reads this year for me are not the usual fiction books. Somehow mostly non fiction awareness books made my top 5 rating. At the moment I am reading “A life on our planet” by David Attenborough. It reads as easy and clear as it is to listen to his narratives on his nature tv series. Unfortunately what we do to our planet is appalling and I am grateful for him to speak up.

1. The monk who sold his Ferrari: A fable about fulfilling your dreams and reach your destiny - Robin Sharma

I loved it and it is definitely the most influential read for me this year. This book I will reread again and again and again.

2. Crisis in the red zone: The story of the deadliest ebola outbreak in history, and of outbreaks to come - Richard Preston

It reads like a horror book but it certainly is NOT fiction, it is reality. Such a scary wake up call.

3. A life on our planet: My witness statement and vision for the future - David Attaborough

4. Great expectations - Charles Dickens

I have to admit that his books are a slow read. But WOW, What a fantastic writing. I seriously question myself why on earth I have not read Dickens before.
I am reading David Copperfield now and love it as much as I loved Great expectations.

5. The war of the end of the world - Marip Vargas Llosa
An other slow read but absolutely worth it.