And here we are again. The end of another year, and time to give an account for all the books read in 2020. This year I read 39 books—20 fiction and 19 non-fiction—the first year I have read more fiction than non-fiction.
Best book overall: Blessed, Broken, Given
Non-fiction runners-up: Gentle and Lowly, Changes that Heal
Top fiction book: The Dearly Beloved
Fiction runner-up: Baking Cakes in Kigali
Most helpful books read during the early months of COVID: Gentle and Lowly, Changes that Heal, The Emotionally Healthy Woman, The Mitford series
Books out of my normal genres: Baking Cakes in Kigali, When a Monster Calls, The Latehomecomer, The Little Prince
The complete lineup of books that I read this past year:
Fiction
- The Dearly Beloved (Cara Wall)
- The Things We Cannot Say (Kelly Rimmer)
- Virgil Wander (Leif Enger)
- A Note Yet Unsung (Tamera Alexander)
- The Bridge to Belle Island (Julie Klassen)
- Harp on the Willow (BJ Hoff)
- Not a Sparrow Falls (Linda Nichols)
- The Ragged Edge of Night (Olivia Hawker)
- Baking Cakes in Kigali (Gaile Parkin)
- Reclaiming Lily (Patti Lacy)
- At Home in Mitford (Jan Karon)
- A Light in the Window (Jan Karon)
- These High Green Hills (Jan Karon)
- Out to Canaan (Jan Karon)
- The Soul of the Rose (Ruth Trippy)
- Lila (Marilynne Robinson)
- Love Big, Be Well (Winn Collier)
- Colors of Truth (Tamera Alexander)
- When a Monster Calls (Patrick Ness)
- The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Non-Fiction
- Adorning the Dark (Andrew Peterson)
- Something Needs to Change (David Platt)
- The Hardest Peace (Kara Tippetts)
- The Gospel According to Satan (Jared Wilson)
- The Next Right Thing (Emily P. Freeman)
- Gentle and Lowly (Dane Ortlund)
- Changes that Heal (Henry Cloud)
- J Curve (Paul Miller)
- Living Life Backward (David Gibson)
- Blessed, Broken, Given (Glenn Packiam)
- How Long, O Lord (D.A. Carson)
- The Latehomecomer (Kao Kalia Yang)
- Don’t Lose Heart (Jason Meyer)
- The Unsaved Christian (Dan Inserra)
- Not Forsaken (Jennifer Michelle Greenberg)
- God is in the Manger (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
- My Seventh Monsoon (Naomi Reed)
- The Emotionally Healthy Woman (Geri Scazzero)
- An Even Better Christmas (Matt Chandler)
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