The Book List 2020

Ok folks, 2020 has arrived and I’ve started putting together the book list for this year. There’s a mix of classic and contemporary fiction and as always, more can be added as the year goes on. Always opened to suggestions as well. As usual, I’ll highlight as I read them. Happy reading!

1. Rosewater – Tade Thompson
2. The Institute – Stephen King
3. House of Leaves – Mark Z Danielewski
4. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
5. Annihilation – Jeff Vandermeer
6. The Passage – Justin Cronin
7. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula LeGuin
8. The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst
9. What is an Apparatus and other Essays – Georgia Agamben
10. The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
11. Frankenstein – Mary Shelly
12. The Outsider – Stephen King
13. Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardino Evaristo
14. The Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula LeGuin
15. Delirium – Lauren Oliver
16. The Whale Rider – Witi Ihimaera
17. The Buried Giant – Kazuhiro Ishiguro
18. Doctor Sleep – Stephen King
19. Company of Liars – Karin Maitland
20. Bird Box – Josh Malerman
21. A Judgement in Stone – Ruth Rendell
22. Bring up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel
23. Red Rising – Pierce Brown
24. Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
25. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maguire
26. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
27. The Flatshare – Beth O’Leary
28. Castle of Blood – C. L. Werner
29. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
30. My Exorcism Killed Me – Rick Wood
31. Our Endless Numbered Days – Claire Fuller
32. Close to Death – Rick Wood
33. The Sensitives – Rick Wood
34. Hidden Company – S. E. England
35. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires – Grady Hendrix
36. Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay
37. Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun – Sarah Ladipo Manyika
38. A Pair of Blue Eyes – Thomas Hardy
39. Elegance – Kathleen Tessaro
40. Circe – Madeline Miller
41. The Vegetarian – Han Kang
42. All Grown Up – Jami Attenberg
43. Blaze – Richard Bachman
44. A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
45. Villain – Shuichi Yoshida
46. My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell
47. Middlemarch – George Eliot
48. The End of the World Running Club – Adrian J. Walker
49. Horns – Joe Hill
50. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
51. Company of Liars – Karen Maitland

Bonus

1. Wolf Hall – Hillary Mantel

2. Pump Six and other Stories – Paolo Bagigalupi

3. Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell – Susanna Clarke

4. All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr

5. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell