Favorite Books of 2020

I had a goal to read 100 books in 2020. I didn’t make my goal but did finish 83 books.

Friends who know I love to read often ask me to recommend books to them, so I thought I’d add this post to my Journal to make it easier to share. I lean towards mysteries and historical novels. I can’t get through a book with a lot of foul language. I don’t care for romantic novels. So, from my conservative point of view here are my highest rated reads from 2020 in the order in which I read them:

• The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd
• Flight of the Sparrow by Amy Belding Brown
• Extravagant Grace
• When Time Stopped by Ariana Newman
• Dollbaby by Lara Lane McNeal
• The Murmuring of Bees by Sofia Segovia
• Finding Tess by Beth Macy
• The Mountains Sing by Nguyen Phan Que Mai
• The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
• Before and After by Judy Christie and Lisa Wingate
• The Girl from Berlin by Ronald H. Balson
• GodPretty in the Tobacco Fields by Kim Richardson
• The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt by Andrea Bobotis
• A Time for Mercy by John Grisham
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
• The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom (an annual Thanksgiving Read)
• Deadly Cross by James Patterson
• All the Best People by Sonja Yoerg
• The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

Fredrik Backman quickly became my new favorite writer but when I got into his third book, Brit-Marie Was Here, I couldn’t take the language so have not gotten another one by him. That really makes me sad because he is such a good writer 🙁

These were also good reads, just not rated as the very best:

• The Secret Letter by Debbie Dix
• The House at Tyneford by Natasha Solomons
• The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimer
• Second Skin by Christian White
• The Light over London by Julia Kelly
• The Witness Wore Red by Rebecca Musser
• The Paris Secret by Lily Graham
• One Last Step by Sarah Sutton
• The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor
• The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Richardson
• The Sisters of Glass Ferry by Kim Richardson
• Liar’s Bench by Kim Richardson
• The Taster by V. S. Alexander
• What Only We Knew by Catherine Hokin
• The Child of Auschwitz by Lily Graham

Note there are 4 books on this list by Kim Richardson. I really enjoy her writing.

I’m starting 2021 with my goal of 100 books. We shall see if I make it this year!