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. My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
  2. The Institute – Stephen King
  3. Birdsong – Sebastian Fawkes
  4. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
  5. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
  6. I Am A Cat – Soseki Natsume
  7. The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula LeGuin
  8. The Woman in White –Wilkie Collins
  9. The Vegetarian – Han Kang
  10. Longbourn – Jo Baker
  11. The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson
  12. The Other Wind – Ursula Le Guin
  13. Castle of Blood – C L Werner
  14. Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
  15. The Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula LeGuin
  16. Blue Light Yokohama – Nicolas Obregon
  17. The Trial – Franz Kafka
  18. True Grit – Charles Portis
  19. Doctor Sleep – Stephen King
  20. Company of Liars – Karin Maitland
  21. A Discovery of Witches – Deborah Harkness
  22. Malleus Maleficarum – Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger
  23. Bring up the Bodies – Hilary Mantel
  24. Red Rising – Pierce Brown
  25. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
  26. The Visible World – Mark Slouka
  27. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
  28. Air – Geoff Ryman
  29. The Art of Peace – Morihei Ueshiba
  30. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  31. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  32. Our Endless Numbered Days – Claire Fuller
  33. The Little Friend – Donna Tartt
  34. The Queen of Subtleties – Suzannah Dunn
  35. Beloved – Toni Morrison
  36. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
  37. Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay
  38. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
  39. A Pair of Blue Eyes – Thomas Hardy
  40. Time of the Twins – Margaret Weiss & Tracy Hickman
  41. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
  42. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
  43. All Grown Up – Jami Attenberg
  44. The Vegetarian – Han Kang
  45. Northanger Abby – Jane Austen
  46. Villain – Shuichi Yoshida
  47. Elegance – Kathleen Tessaro
  48. Middlemarch – George Eliot
  49. The Outsider – Stephen King
  50. The Flatshare – Beth O’Leary
  51. Sherlock Holmes – The Definitive Collection – Arthur Conan Doyle
  52. Canal Dreams – Ian Banks

Not on the list, but finished:

  1. Hidden Company – S.E. England
  2. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires – Grady Hendrix
  3. Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream in the Sun – Sarah Ladipo Manyika
  4. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West – Gregory Maguire
  5. Circe – Madeline Miller
  6. A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
  7. My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell
  8. The End of the World Running Club – Adrian J. Walker
  9. The Long Walk – Stephen King
  10. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Sparks
  11. Horns – Joe Hill
  12. The Sensitives – Books 1-3

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