A list of the books I read in the first quarter of 2020, in rough chronological order:

1. An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones

2. Olive, Again, by Elizabeth Strout

3. Connected Strategy, by Christian Terwiesch and Nicolaj Siggelkow

4. The Corner that Held Them, by Sylvia Townsend Warner

5. 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World, by Elif Shafak

6. The Gimmicks, by Chris McCormick

7. How We Fight for Our Lives, by Saeed Jones

8. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert

9. The Silence of the Girls, by Pat Barker

10. Nothing to See Here, by Kevin Wilson

11. Normal People, by Sally Rooney

12. Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo

13. Life among the Savages, by Shirley Jackson

14. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson

15. Manhattan Beach, by Jennifer Egan

16. Article 353, by Tanguy Viel

17. Weather, by Jenny Offill

18. Indelicacy, by Amina Cain

19. Night Boat to Tangier, by Kevin Barry

20. Happenstance, by Carol Shields

21. Go, Went, Gone, by Jenny Erpenbeck

22. A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman

23. Free Food for Millionaires, by Min Jin Lee

24. Long, Bright River, by Liz Moore

25. Temporary, by Hilary Leichter

26. Deacon King Kong, by James McBride

27. Nobody Will Tell You This but Me, by Bess Kalb

28. The Mountains Sing, by Que Mai Phan Nguyen

29. My Dark Vanessa, by Kate Elizabeth Russell

30. The Heavens, by Sandra Newman

31. 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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