Here’s my final list for 2020. I managed to beat last year’s total of 58 which I’m surprised at tbh, not had great focus for much of the year but I won’t complain:
- Giver of Stars – Jojo Moyes
- Vinegar Girl – Ann Tyler
3. Me – Elton John
- First Lady – James Patterson
- Wakenhyrst – Michelle Paver
- Bad Spell For The Worst Witch – Jill Murphy
- Run Away – Harlan Coben
- Funhouse – Diane Hoh
9. The Five – Hallie Rubenhold
10. Melmoth – Sarah Perry
11. Norse Mythology – Neil Gaiman
12. The Dutch House – Ann Patchett
13. The Dilemma – B A Paris
14. The Girlfriend – R L Stine
15. The Foundling – Stacey Halls
16. The Guest List – Lucy Foley
17. Bring Up The Bodies – Hilary Mantel
18. The Widow’s House – Carol Goodman
19. Cat Among the Pigeons – Agatha Christie
20. Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris
21. When Will There Be Good News? – Kate Atkinson
22. The Nightshift Before Christmas – Adam Kay
23. The Guest House – Abbie Frost
24. The Family Upstairs – Lisa Jewell
25 Wolfheart – Richard A Knaak
26. Midnight in Chernobyl – Adam Higginbotham
27. Morgan’s Passing – Ann Tyler
28.Nevertheless – Alec Baldwin
29. The Kennedy Curse – James Patterson
30. 11.22.63 – Stephen King
31. The Nine of Us – Jean Kennedy Smith
32. Searching for Caleb – Ann Tyler
33. The Sunwell Trilogy – Richard A Knaak
34. House of Hell – Steve Jackson
35. Sing, Unburied, Sing – Jesmyn Ward
36. Moving – Jenny Éclair
37. The Doll Factory – Elizabeth McNeal
38. Exit West – Moshin Hamid
39. The Mercies – Kiran Millwood Hargrave
40. I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
41. Ash Mountain – Helen Fitzgerald
42. A Spool of Blue Thread – Anne Tyler
43. The Clocks – Agatha Christie
44. My Coney Island Baby – Billy O’Callaghan
45. My Name is Lucy Barton – Elizabeth Strout
46. The Baby-sitters Club – Ann M Martin
47.The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
48. Educated – Tara Westover
49. The Glass Woman – Caroline Lea
50. The Woman in Black – Susan Hill
51. Trick or Treat – Richie Tankersley Cusick
52. Watching You – Lisa Jewell
53. Reservoir 13 – Jon McGregor
54. Career of Evil – Robert Galbraith
55. Daisy Jones and the Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid
56. Malory Towers First Term – Enid Blyton
57. My Cousin Rachel – Daphne du Maurier
58. Number One Chinese Restaurant – Lillian Li
59.
Heartburn – Nora Ephron
60.Hercule Poirot’s Christmas – Agatha Christie
61. Christmas at the Beach Hut – Veronica Henry
62. Seven Days of Us – Francesca Hornak
63.
A Redbird Christmas- Fannie Flagg
64. Redhead By The Side of the Road – Anne Tyler
65. Christmas at High Rising – Angela Thirkell
66. Skipping Christmas – John Grisham
67.
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Stats:
47 female authors / 20 male authors
59 fiction, 8 non-fiction
29 Physical books/ 19 audio/ 19 ebooks
No real turkeys this year although I’d say the one I enjoyed least was Christmas at High Rising by Angela Thirkell. It wasn’t bad as such, but I didn’t realise that it was a short story collection. I get on ok with short stories normally but it wasn’t what I was expecting when I bought it.
Top 5 books in no particular order –
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett,
A Spool of Blue Thread, Ann Tyler
Fannie Flagg’s A Redbird Christmas
The Woman in Black, Susan Hill
The Five by Hallie Rubenhold