2020 Reads

happy spin around the sun, friends. congratulations on making it through. here is what i was grateful to sink my brain into this year -- mostly fiction, some memoir and essays, a handful of poetry and plays, lots of beautiful work by inspiring friends. listed in order read (not ranked), with some of my most devoured/cherished compiled in the gallery below. i wish each and every one of you the words you're looking for in 2021. may this next revolution be more sparkly than dumpster fire. 

​love, n.

2020 Reads

1. The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
2. Five Wives by Joan Thomas
3. Something Bright Then Holes by Maggie Nelson (poetry)
4. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie 
5. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
6. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
7. The Little Book of Hygge by Meik Wiking
8. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
9. Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay (essays)
10. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
11. Small Victories by Anne Lamott (essays)
12. Crudo by Olivia Laing
13. The Boat People by Sharon Bala
14. Bunny by Mona Awad
15. Hunger by Roxane Gay (essays)
16. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
17. The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
18. The Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy
19. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
20. The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
21. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
22. The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan
23. Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown
24. The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
25. Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
26. Bone Cage by Catherine Banks (play)
27. Incidental Interventions by Elena Ferrante (essays)
28. Room by Emma Donoghue
29. Motherhood by Sheila Heti 
30. Wilder Girls by Rory Power
31. the innocents by Michael Crummey
32. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson 
33. Precious Energy by Shannon Bramer (poetry)
34. Baddie One Shoe by Natalie Meisner (poetry)
35. Long Bright River by Liz Moore
36. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
37. This Is Agatha Falling by Heather Nolan 
38. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
39. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
40. A Sudden Sun by Trudy J. Morgan Cole
41. Everything I Never Told You by Celest Ng
42. Morning in the Burned House by Margaret Atwood (poetry)
43. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
44. I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid 
45. City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
46. Reproduction by Ian Williams
47. Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba 
48. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 
49. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides 
50. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite 
51. almost no memory by Lydia Davis (short stories)
52. SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson (poetry)
53. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
54. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
55. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
56. Flannery by Lisa Moore
57. The Stand by Stephen King
58. All We Knew But Couldn’t Say by Joanne Vannicola
59. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
60. Spawn by Marie-Andree Gill (poetry)
61. The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
62. Beloved by Toni Morrison
63. Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
64. Weather by Jenny Offill
65. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante 
66. All My Mother’s Lovers by Ilana Masad
67. Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
68. The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
69. Braised Pork by An Yu
70. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong 
71. Indelicacy by Amina Cain
72. Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh 
73. The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin 
74. Dept. Of Speculation by Jenny Offill 
75. Milkman by Anna Burns
76. Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman
77. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch 
78. Untamed by Glennon Doyle
79. Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard 
80. Diary of a Mad Housewife by Sue Kaufman 
81. All I Ask by Eva Crocker
82. Poems by Elizabeth Bishop (poetry)
83. The Essential P.K. Page by P.K. Page (poetry) 
84. Stay Where I Can See You by Katrina Onstad
85. Dream Work by Mary Oliver (poetry)
86. After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones (short stories)
87. That Forgetful Shore by Trudy J. Morgan Cole
88. This One Because of the Dead by Laure Baudot (short stories)
89. The Hidden Messages in Water by Masaru Emoto 
90. Rabbit Foot Bill by Helen Humphreys 
91. The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter
92. The Wives by Tarryn Fisher 
93. The Crying Book by Heather Christle
94. The Company We Keep by Frances Itani
95. The Last Wife by Kate Hennig (play)
96. The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall 
97. Wenjack by Joseph Boyden 
98. life of the party by Olivia Gatwood (poetry)
99. The Book of Sensations by Sheri-D Wilson (poetry)
100. Blud by Rachel McKibbens (poetry)
101. Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta (short stories)
102. Disfigured by Amanda Leduc 
103. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 
104. Trapsongs by Shannon Bramer (plays)
105. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell ​