Jill’s 2020 Book List

The Covid-19 pandemic was, without a doubt, the best thing that could have happened to me from a reading perspective.  So much free time and nothing to do but read!  And landscape the front and back yards.  And learn all about the best kind of masks. 

1. Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward 
2. Her Body and Other Parties (stories), Carmen Maria Machado 
3. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, Phillip Pullman 
4. The King of Crows, Libba Bray 
5. Hiddensee, Gregory Maguire
6. Red Clocks, Leni Zumas 
7. Stranger than Fiction, Chuck Palahniuk 
8. The Future Home of the Living God, Louise Erdrich 
9. How to be a Woman, Caitlin Moran 
10. Telex from Cuba, Rachel Kushner 
11. Noir, Christopher Moore
12. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Roxane Gay
13. Census, Jesse Ball
14. Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know, Alexandra Horowitz 
15. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, Robin DiAngelo 
16. A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander #6), Diana Gabaldon 
17. Time’s Convert, Deborah Harkness 
18. The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner
19. In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall 
20. So You Want to Talk about Race, Ijeoma Oluo
21. Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, Sandra Cisneros 
22. Transcription, Kate Atkinson
23. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, Eric Schlosser 
24. There There, Tommy Orange 
25. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates 
26. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, Simon Winchester 
27. The Third Hotel, Laura van den Berg
28. Blood Communion: A Tale of Prince Lestat, Anne Rice