2020.
The year I came home from work in mid-March and stayed put.
Pandemic protocol and common sense meant I did not physically leave our house except on a few rare occasions…and then only if masked and socially-distanced from others.
I never ventured more than 50 miles from our house.
Thanks to books, however, I still managed to travel the world.
I made my way through multiple parts of Quebec (and Paris) with Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, including visiting a remote and mysterious monastery.
Daniel DeFoe invited me to London as he described one man’s story of surviving the 1665 bubonic plague.
I’ve been to Budapest and Istanbul.
Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck.
Harlem, the Underground Railroad, and the Jim Crow south.
The Dominican Republic.
Ghana.
Erietown.
I accompanied two young girls as they fled from massacres in Rwanda, traveling through several African nations and on to Chicago; and refugees from war-torn Syria through Turkey, Greece and on to the United Kingdom.
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone let me tag along throughout California and beyond as she solved mysteries N through R.
I traveled cross-country from New York City to the southwest Mexican-American border in search of lost children.
I visited the upstate New York home of some childhood friends.
I am thankful for books; for the authors who write them; for the libraries that lend them; and for the worlds they reveal.
Here’s my 2020 reading list:
N Is For Noose (audiobook), Sue Grafton
Finished 1-12-20
A Trick of the Light (audiobook), Louise Penny
Finished 1-31-20
The Cross and the Lynching Tree, James H. Cone
Finished 2-6-20
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey (audiobook read by the author), Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.
Finished 2-8-20
Fleishman Is in Trouble, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Finished 2-9-20
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (audiobook), Heather Morris
Finished 3-6-20
The Photographer at Sixteen, George Szirtes
Finished 3-14-20
O is for Outlaw (audiobook), Sue Grafton
Finished 3-26-20
Southern Horrors, Ida B. Wells
Finished 4-5-20
Lost Children Archives, Valeria Luiselli
Finished 4-18-20
Small Great Things (audiobook), Jodi Picoult
Finished 4-22-20
Normal is Just a Setting on the Dryer, Adair Lara
Finished 5-3-20
Trixie Belden #1: The Secret of the Mansion (audiobook), Julie Campbell
Finished 5-9-20
Clap When You Land (audiobook), Elizabeth Acevedo
Finished 5-18-20
The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Finished 5-24-20
The Beautiful Mystery (audiobook), Louise Penny
Finished 5-30-20
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Finished 6-7-20
How the Light Gets In (audiobook), Louise Penny
Finished 6-13-20
Untamed, Glennon Doyle
Finished 6-20-20
The Long Way Home (audiobook), Louise Penny
Finished 7-3-20
A Journal of the Plague Year, Daniel DeFoe
Finished 7-19-20
The Nature of the Beast (audiobook), Louise Penny
Finished 7-20-20
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong, Editor
Finished 7-29-20
A Great Reckoning (audiobook), Louise Penny
Finished 8-1-20
Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For, Susan Rice
Finished 8-14-20
Glass Houses (audiobook), Louise Penny
Finished 8-16-20
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes Next, Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
Finished 8-30-20
Kingdom of the Blind (audiobook), Louise Penny
Finished 9-3-20
Christ in Crisis: Why We Need to Reclaim Jesus, Jim Wallis
Finished 9-6-20
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster (audiobook), Stephen L. Carter
Finished 9-7-20
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Elif Shafak
Finished 9-13-20
Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again, Rachel Held Evans
Finished 9-16-20
Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times, Jennifer Worth
Finished 9-19-20
A Better Man (audiobook), Louise Penny
Finished 9-20-20
Three Daughters of Eve, Elif Shafak
Finished 10-7-20
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Atul Gawande
Finished 10-10-20
Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi
Finished 10-17-20
P is for Peril (audiobook), Sue Grafton
Finished 10-22-20
Q is for Quarry (audiobook), Sue Grafton
Finished 11-9-20
All the Devils Are Here (audiobook), Louise Penny
Finished 11-16-20
The Daughters of Erietown (audiobook), Connie Schultz
Finished 11-27-20
God and the Pandemic: A Christian Reflection on the Coronavirus and its Aftermath, N. T. Wright
Finished 11-28-20
R is for Ricochet (audiobook), Sue Grafton
Finished 12-17-20
Virus as a Summons to Faith: Biblical Reflections in a Time of Loss, Grief, and Anxiety, Walter Brueggemann
Finished 12-20-20
Mary Had a Baby: An Advent Bible Study Based on African American Spirituals, Cheryl Kirk-Duggan and Marilyn E. Thornton
Finished 12-23-20
You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters, Kate Murphy
Finished 12-28-20
The Beekeeper of Aleppo (audiobook), Christy Lefteri
Finished 12-30-20

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