Reading in lockdown: My 2020 in books

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  1. The Bastard of Istanbul, Elif Shafak ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  2. The Architect’s Apprentice, Elif Shafak ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  3. The Manager’s Path, Camille Fournier ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  4. Dear Girls, Ali Wong ⭐⭐⭐
  5. The Dutch House, Ann Patchett ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  6. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  7. Uncanny Valley, Anna Weiner ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  8. Lab Girl, Hope Jahren ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  9. Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage, Laura Huang ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  10. The Joy of Movement, Kelly McGonigal ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  11. Exhalation, Ted Chiang ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  12. Beloved, Toni Morrison ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  13. The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates ⭐⭐⭐
  14. Dreamland, Sam Quinones ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  15. The Color Purple, Alice Walker ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  16. The Perfect Predator, Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  17. The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  18. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, Laura Spinney ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (extra star for relevance to 2020)
  19. Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition, Cathy Park Hong ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  20. The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern ⭐⭐⭐
  21. Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  22. Weather, Jenny Offill ⭐⭐⭐
  23. Frankissstein, Jeanette Winterson ⭐⭐⭐
  24. Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  25. Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  26. 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 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  27. Also Human: The Inner Lives of Doctors, Caroline Elton ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  28. How Much of These Hills Is Gold, C. Pam Zhang ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  29. The Dollmaker, Nina Allan ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  30. Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  31. Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  32. Winter in Sokcho, Elisa Shua Dusapin ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  33. On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons, Laura Cumming ⭐⭐⭐
  34. The Map of Knowledge, Violet Moller ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  35. Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire, Akala ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  36. The Disaster Tourist, Yun Ko-eun ⭐⭐⭐
  37. The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  38. Rodham, Curtis Sittenfeld ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  39. The Overstory, Richard Powers ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  40. The Well-Gardened Mind: Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World, Sue Stuart-Smith ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  41. The Great Believers, Rebecca Makkai ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  42. The Henna Artist, Alka Joshi ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  43. Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  44. Fracture, Andrés Neuman ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  45. Burnt Sugar, Avna Doshi ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  46. Minor Detail, Adania Shibli ⭐⭐⭐
  47. Silver Sparrow, Tayari Jones ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  48. If I Never Met You, Mhairi McFarlane ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  49. The Glass Hotel, Emily St. John Mandel ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  50. The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protest Us from Violence, Gavin de Becker ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  51. Loathe at First Sight, Suzanne Park ⭐⭐⭐
  52. The Man Who Didn’t Call, Rosie Walsh ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  53. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Elif Shafak ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  54. Azadi, Arundhati Roy ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  55. The Guest List, Rosie Walsh ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  56. Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World, Tom Wright & Bradley Hope ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  57. How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division, Elif Shafak ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  58. Real Life, Brandon Taylor ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  59. Rootbound: Rewilding a Life, Alice Vincent ⭐⭐⭐
  60. The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  61. Skincare: The Ultimate No-Nonsense Guide, Caroline Hirons ⭐⭐⭐
  62. The Lonely City: Adventure in the Art of Being Alone, Olivia Laing ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  63. Life’s Too Short to Go So F*cking Slow, Susan Lacke ⭐⭐⭐
  64. Love After Love, Ingrid Persaud ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  65. Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, Caroline Criado Perez ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  66. This Mournable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  67. The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  68. The Opposite of Loneliness, Marina Keegan ⭐⭐⭐
  69. The New Wilderness, Diane Cook ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  70. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder ⭐⭐⭐
  71. The Soul of an Octopus, Sy Montgomery ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  72. Self Care, Leigh Stein ⭐⭐⭐
  73. How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  74. Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby ⭐⭐
  75. The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  76. The Girl with the Louding Voice, Abi Daré ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  77. Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends, Anne Applebaum ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  78. The Flat Share, Beth O’Leary ⭐⭐⭐
  79. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
  80. The Girl Who Reads on the Métro, Christine Féret-Fleury ⭐⭐⭐
  81. The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris ⭐⭐⭐
  82. The Handsome Monk, Tsering Döndrup ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  83. Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  84. Postcolonial Love Poem, Natalie Diaz ⭐⭐⭐⭐
  85. Milkman, Anna Burns ⭐⭐⭐
I had to buy a bookshelf for all the books I was acquiring in lockdown! Top shelf is not read or only partially read. Bottom three shelves are read. Does not include Kindle reading, obviously.

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