Friday, January 1, 2021

Reading List 2020

Total books completed - 69

Books in progress - 3


Key

Red = children’s book - 26

Blue = YA book - 6

Green = audiobook - 23

*medical or scientific - 12


January - 7

  • 5 The Pilot’s Wife - Anita Shreve

  • 5 Hawaii - Sarah Tieck

  • 6 What’s Great about Hawaii? - Mary Meinking

  • 6 Hawaii - Ann Heinrichs

  • 12 Three Dark Crowns - Kendare Blake

  • 15 *Crisis in the Red Zone: The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come - Richard Preston

  • 20 The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein


February - 10

  • 7 How Happiness Happens: Finding Lasting Joy in a World of Comparison, Disappointment, and Unmet Expectations - Max Lucado

  • 10 Unspoken: What Men Won’t Talk About and Why - Johnny Hunt

  • 17 Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds - Brandon Sanderson

  • 18 *The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer - Siddhartha Mukherjee

  • 21 It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way - Kyo Maclear

  • 22 Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries - Kory Stamper

  • 25 All the Impossible Things - Lindsay Lackey

  • 26 Suffering: Gospel Hope When Life Doesn’t Make Sense - Paul David Tripp

  • 28 Pay Attention, Carter Jones - Gary D. Schmidt

  • 29 The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See


March - 10

  • 1 *Her Own Two Feet: A Rwandan Girl’s Brave Fight to Walk - Meredith Davis

  • 2 Lessons from a Sheep Dog: A True Story of Transforming Love - Phillip W. Keller

  • 5 Home in the woods - Eliza Wheeler

  • 5 This Promise of Change: One Girl’s Story in the Fight for School Equality - Jo Ann Allen Boyce

  • 8 *For the Good of Mankind?: The Shameful History of Human Medical Experimentation - Vicki Oransky Wittenstein

  • 19 Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit - John E. Douglas

  • 19 *Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital - David M. Oshinsky

  • 19 Ordinary Hazards - Nikki Grimes

  • 22 Unwind - Neal Shusterman

  • 26* Mercies in Disguise: A Story of Hope, a Family’s Genetic Destiny, and the Science That Rescued Them - Gina Kolata


April - 10

  • 19 Not Now, Bernard - David McKee

  • 19 The Knight Who Took All Day - James Mayhew

  • 19 Nya’s Long Walk: A Step at a Time - Linda Sue Park

  • 19 A Long Walk To Water: Based on a True Story - Linda Sue Park (audiobook)

  • 19 The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family - Ibtihaj Muhammad

  • 19 Isable’s Noisy Tummy - David McKee

  • 19 You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters - Kate Murphy

  • 26 Horton Hears a Who - Dr Seuss

  • 26 Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel - Virginia Lee Burton

  • 28 *The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope - William Kamkwamba


May - 3

  • 4 Far From the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

  • 11 *Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

  • 14 *Felson’s Principles of Chest Roentgenology, a Programmed Text - Lawrence R. Goodman


June - 6

  • 1 *American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI - Kate Winler Dawson

  • 5 The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure - Jonathan Haidt

  • 7 Coronavirus and Christ - John Piper

  • 18 *All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World - Lori Alexander

  • 20 O Captain, My Captain: Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, and the Civil War - Robert Burleigh

  • 26 The Calvary Road - Roy Hession


August - 5

  • 2 Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know - Malcolm Gladwell

  • 16 The Crayon Man: the True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons - Natascha Biebow

  • 16 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin A. Abbott

  • 16 Grandpa’s Top Threes - Wendy Meddour

  • 30 Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression - Mildred Armstrong Kalish


September - 3

  • 12 In a Sunburned Country - Bill Bryson 

  • 23 *Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family - Robert Kolker

  • 25 *Trauma Room Two - Philip Allen Green


October - 6

  • 10 Ghost Boy: My Miraculous Escape from a Life Locked Inside My Own Body - Martin Pistorius

  • 18 Pride - Ibi Zoboi (audiobook)

  • 19 The Trouble With Chickens (J.J. Tully Mystery #1) - Doreen Cronin

  • 28 Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely - Lysa TerKeurst

  • 29 The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life - Alex Trebek

  • 29 The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland - Jim Defede


December - 9

  • 17 The Night Gardener - Terry Fan

  • 17 They Were Strong and Good - Robert Lawson

  • 18 People - Peter Spier

  • 22 Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram - Isha Sesay

  • 22 Animalia - Graeme Base

  • 25 Matched (Matched, #1) - Ally Condie

  • 27 One of Us is Lying - Karen McManus

  • 28 Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing - Marie Kondo

  • 31 Crossed (Matched, #2) - Ally Condie


Books in progress:

  • In the Likeness of God - Philip Yancey

  • The Shattering: An Encounter with Truth - Jessica Smith

  • Agent Sonya: Moscow’s Most Daring Wartime Spy - Ben Macintyre

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