2020 Book Club Picks and Top Ten Lists

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Jenna Bush Hager’s 2020 Book Club

Jan – Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

Feb – The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

March – Writers & Lovers by Lily King

April – Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore

May – All Adults Here by Emma Straub

June – A Burning by Megha Majumdar

July – Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan

Aug – The Comeback by Ella Berman

Sept – Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Oct – Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

Nov – White Ivy by Susie Yang

Dec – The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Reese Witherspoon’s 2020 Book Club

Jan – Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Feb – The Scent Keeper by Erica Baumeister

March – The Jetsetters by Amana Eyre Ward

April – Untamed by Glennon Doyle (Non-Fiction)

May – The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi  

June/July – The Guest List by Lucy Foley

June/July – I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown (Non-Fiction)

Aug – Everything Inside  by Edwidge Danticat

Aug YA – You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson

Sept – The Last Story of MinaLee by Nancy Joo Youn Kim

Sept YA – Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez

Oct – His Only Wife by Peace Medie Adzo

Oct YA – Fable by Adrienne Young

Nov – Group by Christie Tate (Non-Fiction)

Nov YA – A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey

Dec – The Chicken Sisters by K.J. Dell’Antonia

Dec YA – The Light tin Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron

Oprah’s 2020 Book Club

Jan – American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

April – Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker (Non-Fiction)

June – Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Aug – Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (Non-Fiction)

Annette’s 2020 Book Club

Jan – The One by John Marrs

Feb – The Year of Living Danishly by Hellen Russell (Non-Fiction)

March – The Bookshop of Yesteryear by Amy Meyerson

April – The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman

Dec – Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Jan 2021 – Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce

GoodReads 2020 Choice Awards for Fiction 

Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner 

Amazon’s 2020 Bestselling Fiction 

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

Anxious People by Fredrick Backman

Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult

Cold Millions by Jess Walter

Writers & Lovers by Lily King

The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Luster by Raven Leilani

New York Times Bestselling Books of 2020 

A Children’s Bible by Lydia Miller

Deacon King Kong by James McBride

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker (Non-Fiction)

A Promised Land by Barak Obama (Non-Fiction)

Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro (Non-Fiction)

Uncanny Valley by Anna Weiner (Non-Fiction)

War by Margaret McMillan (Non-Fiction)

 

Happy New Year!

Happy Reading!

 

Annette

Comments

Marianne said…
Great list. I only read two of the books on your list ("The Bluest Eye", "The Year of Living Danishly") and "A Promised Land" is on my wishlist, of course.

I'm sure I'd find more interesting reads among your books but my biggest goal is to diminish my TBR pile this year.

My Statistics 2020.
January 6, 2021 at 1:54 AM
Reading in the Garden said…
I can understand that! I have too many book piles. I could read for years without having to buy a new book, but I'm so weak and keep giving in to temptation and getting more and more books. :)
January 11, 2021 at 9:29 AM
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