Happy New Year!
I’ve had to hold off on posting my 2020 summary until the very last second, because I was rushing to crank out my 200th book. I noticed mid-December that I had finished 183 books so far in 2020, and that if I continued on my normal trajectory I would have finished the year in the 190s. That wouldn’t do, since I was so close to 200! So I buckled down for the month of December to squeeze in the last 15 books or so, and I’ve done it!
Who doesn’t love a nice, round number?
(I’ll be honest, I saved the last chapter of my next book to read this morning just so that I could keep my 2020 total at 200…)
I’ve always read a lot, but I’ve never read quite this much in one year before. It sounds silly now, but in January I set my 2020 reading goal to 60 books! In September, I decided to pivot my reading hobby into a blog/bookstagram hobby, and I’ve really enjoyed all the book discussions, recommendations, and virtual friendships this has led me to. Thank you so much for following along with my reading progress!
That said, it’s about time I pull together all the books I read this year before I started blogging my reviews. If there’s anything on this list that you’d like to see a review of, please let me know! When I’m not racing to meet a reading goal I’ve been trying to fill in some backlogged reviews here and there.
Huge props to Goodreads for helping me keep track of this list.
January (16):
- Fractured
- Beyond Reach
- Mrs. Everything
- Undone
- The Girl in 6E
- Someone We Know
- The Good Girl
- Final Appeal
- Broken
- Dirty Blonde
- Fallen
- Snatched
- Criminal
- Busted
- Do Not Disturb
- Last Breath
February (13):
- Behind Closed Doors
- Into the Dark
- Everywhere That Mary Went
- The Silent Wife by Asa Harrison
- The Wife Between Us
- If You Dare
- The Marriage Lie
- An Anonymous Girl
- Before I Met You
- Something in the Water
- Unseen
- Bring Me Back
- The Couple Next Door
March (12)
- What Was Mine
- Alone
- Cleaning the Gold
- All We Ever Wanted
- The Family Upstairs
- An Unwanted Guest
- The Breakdown
- The Perfect Mother
- Don’t Trust Me
- Dear Wife
- The Girls in the Garden
- The Other Mrs.
April (15)
- The Lost Girls
- All the Missing Girls
- Before I Go To Sleep
- If I Die Tonight
- I Know You Know
- When the Lights Go Out
- What Remains of Me
- Never Have I Ever
- What She Knew
- Odd Child Out
- The Better Sister
- Something She’s Not Telling Us
- The Perfect Wife
- You
- The Birthday Girl
May (15)
- Follow Me
- The First Mistake
- Believe Me
- Truth Be Told ← This was my original goal!
- The Suspect
- Mr. Nobody
- Every Last Lie
- The Last House Guest
- Lock Every Door
- The Silent Patient
- Little Fires Everywhere
- The Late Show
- The Nanny
- Sometimes I Lie
- Pretty Things
June (18)
- Big Summer
- All Adults Here
- Everything I Never Told You
- They All Fall Down
- My Lovely Wife
- The Escape Room
- The Wives
- The Last Mrs. Parrish
- Modern Lovers
- The Vacationers
- Truly Madly Guilty
- One by One
- The Wife Stalker
- The Last Time I Saw You
- Hidden Bodies
- You Should Have Known
- The Guest List
- You Are Not Alone
July (14)
- The Other Woman
- The Glitch
- Cold Cold Heart
- Necessary Women
- The Mean Time
- The Truth About Pretty Girls
- The Unremarkable Heart
- The Blessing of Brokenness
- Home Before Dark
- The New Husband
- Stranger in the Lake ← This was my updated goal
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
- Dead to Her
- Lady in the Lake
August (19)
- The Witch Elm
- The Half Sister
- Have You Seen Me?
- The Tale of Mrs. Westaway
- The Last Time I Lied
- The Guest
- Roomies
- Never Look Back
- The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
- Normal People
- The Look-Alike
- And She Was
- Ask Again, Yes
- The Dilemma
- The End of Her
- The Girl Before
- The Perfect Stranger
- We Will Be Watching
- Things You Save in a Fire
September (13)
- The Safe Place
- The Mother-in-Law
- In the Woods
- The Switch
- He Started It
- The Rules Do Not Apply
- The Girl from Widow Hills
- The Favorite Daughter
- One of Us is Next
- His and Hers
- The House We Grew Up In
- The Family Next Door
- The Silent Wife by Karin Slaughter
October (12)
- Mother Daughter Widow Wife
- How to Walk Away
- You Can’t Catch Me
- I Know Who You Are
- The Bad Daughter
- The One
- Beach Read
- The Other Side of the Door
- The Night Swim
- The Power Couple
- The Red Lotus
- The Good Sister
November (26)
- Little Pieces of Me
- Untold Mayhem
- A Dark and Secret Place
- The Best of Friends
- The Girl in the Rearview Mirror
- Little Threats
- Invisible Girl
- We Are All the Same in the Dark
- The Searcher
- Strike Me Down
- A Million Reasons Why
- Saving Grace
- One Day in December
- The Wife
- Goodnight Beautiful
- The Wife Who Knew Too Much
- The Ex-Boyfriend
- Unfaithful
- Playing Nice
- Every Last Secret
- A Stranger on the Beach
- The White Coat Diaries
- Sunburn
- Six Weeks to Live
- Every Last Fear
- Don’t You Cry
December (27)
- The Wife Upstairs
- A Good Marriage
- The Making of Us
- She Was the Quiet One
- Too Good to be True
- The Chain
- Felix Ever After
- Long Bright River
- Before She Disappeared
- Mother May I
- Two Truths and a Lie
- Horrorstor
- One in Three
- Cobble Hill
- The Girl in the Mirror
- Little Cruelties
- People Like Her
- Looking For Alaska
- Five Total Strangers
- Followers
- Confessions on the 7:45
- Six Months Later
- The Missing Sister
- The Dog Share
- The Perfect Marriage
- In a Holidaze
- Final Girls
I don’t think 200 books per year is sustainable, but I might set it as my goal for 2021 as a challenge.
How many books did you read this year? Any number is amazing, from 2 to 365! (If anyone managed to read more than one book per day, please be my friend because you are a god.) Did you meet your goal? Did you change your goal as the year progressed? Is your goal going to be higher or lower in 2021?
I’m looking forward to another year of book discussions with you all. Thank you so much for being the bright spot in my 2020!
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