Reading in lockdown: My 2020 in books

The Bastard of Istanbul, Elif Shafak ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Architect’s Apprentice, Elif Shafak ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Manager’s Path, Camille Fournier ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Dear Girls, Ali Wong ⭐⭐⭐
The Dutch House, Ann Patchett ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Uncanny Valley, Anna Weiner ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Lab Girl, Hope Jahren ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage, Laura Huang ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Joy of Movement, Kelly McGonigal ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Exhalation, Ted Chiang ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Beloved, Toni Morrison ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates ⭐⭐⭐
Dreamland, Sam Quinones ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Color Purple, Alice Walker ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Perfect Predator, Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, Laura Spinney ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (extra star for relevance to 2020)
Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition, Cathy Park Hong ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern ⭐⭐⭐
Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Weather, Jenny Offill ⭐⭐⭐
Frankissstein, Jeanette Winterson ⭐⭐⭐
Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Roar: How to Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong, Lean Body for Life, Dr. Stacy T. Sims ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors, Caroline Elton ⭐⭐⭐⭐
How Much of These Hills Is Gold, C. Pam Zhang ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Dollmaker, Nina Allan ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Winter in Sokcho, Elisa Shua Dusapin ⭐⭐⭐⭐
On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons, Laura Cumming ⭐⭐⭐
The Map of Knowledge, Violet Moller ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire, Akala ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Disaster Tourist, Yun Ko-eun ⭐⭐⭐
The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rodham, Curtis Sittenfeld ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Overstory, Richard Powers ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Well-Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World, Sue Stuart-Smith ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Henna Artist, Alka Joshi ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Fracture, Andrés Neuman ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Burnt Sugar, Avna Doshi ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Minor Detail, Adania Shibli ⭐⭐⭐
Silver Sparrow, Tayari Jones ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
If I Never Met You, Mhairi McFarlane ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protest Us from Violence, Gavin de Becker ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Loathe at First Sight, Suzanne Park ⭐⭐⭐
The Man Who Didn’t Call, Rosie Walsh ⭐⭐⭐⭐
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Elif Shafak ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Azadi, Arundhati Roy ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Guest List, Rosie Walsh ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World, Tom Wright & Bradley Hope ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division, Elif Shafak ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Real Life, Brandon Taylor ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rootbound: Rewilding a Life, Alice Vincent ⭐⭐⭐
The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Skincare: The Ultimate No-Nonsense Guide, Caroline Hirons ⭐⭐⭐
The Lonely City: Adventure in the Art of Being Alone, Olivia Laing ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Life’s Too Short to Go So F*cking Slow, Susan Lacke ⭐⭐⭐
Love After Love, Ingrid Persaud ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado Perez ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
This Mournable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Opposite of Loneliness, Marina Keegan ⭐⭐⭐
The New Wilderness, Diane Cook ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder ⭐⭐⭐
The Soul of an Octopus, Sy Montgomery ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Self Care, Leigh Stein ⭐⭐⭐
How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby ⭐⭐
The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Girl with the Louding Voice, Abi Daré ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends, Anne Applebaum ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Flat Share, Beth O’Leary ⭐⭐⭐
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Girl Who Reads on the Métro, Christine Féret-Fleury ⭐⭐⭐
The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris ⭐⭐⭐
The Handsome Monk, Tsering Döndrup ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Milkman, Anna Burns ⭐⭐⭐