Books I've Read: Q1 2020
Green tea and a book. The perfect way to start a morning. Lausanne, Switzerland. March 28, 2020.
A list of the books I read in the first quarter of 2020, in rough chronological order:
An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones
Olive, Again, by Elizabeth Strout
Connected Strategy, by Christian Terwiesch and Nicolaj Siggelkow
The Corner that Held Them, by Sylvia Townsend Warner
10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World, by Elif Shafak
The Gimmicks, by Chris McCormick
How We Fight for Our Lives, by Saeed Jones
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker
Nothing to See Here, by Kevin Wilson
Normal People, by Sally Rooney
Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo
Life among the Savages, by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson
Manhattan Beach, by Jennifer Egan
Article 353, by Tanguy Viel
Weather, by Jenny Offill
Indelicacy, by Amina Cain
Night Boat to Tangier, by Kevin Barry
Happenstance, by Carol Shields
Go, Went, Gone, by Jenny Erpenbeck
A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman
Free Food for Millionaires, by Min Jin Lee
Long, Bright River, by Liz Moore
Temporary, by Hilary Leichter
Deacon King Kong, by James McBride
Nobody Will Tell You This but Me, by Bess Kalb
The Mountains Sing, by Que Mai Phan Nguyen
My Dark Vanessa, by Kate Elizabeth Russell
The Heavens, by Sandra Newman
Raising Demons, by Shirley Jackson
As in the past, I’ve bolded the books that really wowed me and that I would recommend highly.
Want to check out the best books I read in 2019? Read my best of the best list (with links to the rest).
Update: You can now check out my reading list for all four quarters of 2020! Click here for my Q2 reading list, click here for my Q3 reading list, and click here for my Q4 reading list. (Update: Click here for my list of the best of the best reads of 2020.)
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