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Friday, January 1, 2021

Books Read 2020

This is my list of books read for the year. 
A- Audiobook
YA- Young Adult
GN- Graphic Novel
Juv- Juvenile (middle grade)

Next year my goal is to read less and savor more and think and talk about books with friends instead of just listening and moving on.

January (20)
Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh - A
How to be here: A Guide to creating a life worth living by Rob Bell - A
The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains by Nicholas Carr - A
Cub by Cynthia Copeland - GN
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - A
168 Hours by Laura Vanderkam - A
Dog Training 101: step-by-step instructions for raising a happy, well-behaved dog by Kyra Sundance
Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right by Jamie Glowacki - A
The Science of Mom: A Research-Based Guide to Your Baby's First Year by Alice Callahan - A
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay - A, ya
Teachings on Love by Thich Nhat Hanh - A
Inkling by Kenneth Oppel - A
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi - A
The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life by Anya Kamenetz - A
Dear Girls : Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong - A
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See - A
Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children by Sara Zaske - A
The Zimzum of Love: A New Way of Understanding Marriage by Rob Bell - A
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga - A, juv
Lock Every Door by Riley Sager - A



February (8)
Becoming Mother by Sharon Tjaden-Glass
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch - A
Pie in the Sky by Remy Lai - A
The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More by Bruce Feiler - A
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds - A
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer - A
Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah - A
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - A


March (16)
Amazing Decisions: The Illustrated Guide to Improving Business Deals and Family Meals by Dan Ariely - GN
This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews- juv, GN
Your One-Year-Old: The Fun-Loving, Fussy 12-To 24-Month-Old by Louise Bates Ames
The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity by Axton Betz-Hamilton - A
Uprooted by Naomi Novick - A
Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor - A
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett - A
You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy - A
An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole - A
How Not to Kill your Houseplant: Survival Tips for the Horticulturally Challenged by Veronica Peerless
The Year of Less by Cait Flanders - A
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon - A
SKIP by Molly Mendoza - GN
The Swedish Way to Parent and Play: secrets for raising gender-equal kids by Kristina Henkel
The Montessori Toddler by Simone Davies
Colorways: Watercolor Flowers by Bley Hack 


April (8)
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu - A
The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence shapes... by Daniel J Siegel - A
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King - A
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware - A
Reviving Ophelia: 25th Anniv. Ed. Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher - A 
Beekeeping for Dummies
The Field Guide to the North American Teenager by Ben Philippe - A, YA
Oh Crap! Potty Training by Jamie Glowacki - A



May (15)
I love you rituals by Becky Bailey
The Last Ocean: A Journey through Memory and Forgetting by Nicci Gerrard - A
Pollinator Friendly Gardening by Rhonda Fleming Hayes (great reference)
Raising Butterflies in the Garden by Brenda Dziedzic -(Full of comprehensive pictures, gift book)
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid- A
The Art of Butterfly Gardening by Tekulsky
Birdscaping your garden: a practical guide to backyard birds and the plants that attract them by Adams
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing- A
The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina separating the Myth from the Medicine by Jen Gunter, MD - A 
The Bee Book by DK Queenspotting: meet the remarkable Queen Bee and discover the drama at the heart of the hive by Hilary Kearney
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry -A
You Don't Know everything, Jilly P! by Alex Gino - A, juv
Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - A
The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate - A, juv
One of Us is Next by Karen M. McManus - A, YA


June (7)
Frankly in Love by David Yoon - A, YA
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad - A
Untamed by Glennon Doyle - A
Humble Pi by Matt Parker - A, nonfic
Talking to Strangers: What we should Know about the People We Don't know by Malcolm Gladwell - A
Rick by Alex Gino - A, juv
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert - A

July (8)
Outlander by Gabaldon - A
White Bird : A Wonder Story by R.J. Palacios - GN
Dumb: Living Without a Voice by Georgia Webber -GN
Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame by Erin Williams -GN
Go to sleep (I miss you) : Cartoons from the brain fog of new parenthood by Lucy Knisley - GN
Present Over Perfect by Niequist - A 
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel - A
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia- A

August (10)
Aya: Life in Yop City by Marguerite Abouet, GN, ya
Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection by Sharon Salzberg - ADoodleville by Chad Sells - GN, juv
When Stars are Scattered by Jamieson and Mohamed - GN, juv
Dragon Hoops by Yang -GN, ya
Aya: Love in Yop City by Marguerite Abouet, GN, ya
On the Horizon by Lois Lowery - GN, juv
The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Daniel Lavery
The Body is not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor- A 
The Very Worst Missionary: A Memoir or Whatever by Jamie Wright - A
13 Doorways, Wolves Behind them All by Laura Ruby - A

September (11)
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez - A
101 Easy Signs for Nonverbal Communication ASL for Kids by Barlow 
Loose Parts 2: Inspiring Play with Infants and Toddlers by Daly and Beloglovsky
Joy at Work: The Life Changing Magic of Organising your working life by Marie Kondo - A
Displacement by Kiku Hughes - YA, GN, 
One Year at Ellsmere by Faith Erin Hicks - YA, GN
Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton - YA, A
City of the Lost by Kelley Armstrong - A
The Silence Between Us by Alison Gervais - A, YA
Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier by Ottaviani - GN
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker - A

October (12)
Genesis Beings Again by Alicia D. Williams - A, juv
Too Much and Never Enough by Mary Trump - A
To Night Owl from Dog Fish by Sloan and Wolitzer - A, juv
A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramee - A, juv
Class Act by Jerry Craft - GN, juv
Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo - A, juv
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green - A
A Darkness Absolute by Kelley Armstrong - A
How to Talk so Little kids will Listen by Faber - A
Song for a Whale by Lynn Kelly - A
Three Keys by Kelly Yang - A, juv
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi - A


November (17)
Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig -A
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher - A
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown - A
Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees: Honey Production, Pollination, Bee Health by Sanford
Jack by Marilynne Robinson - A
Becoming Better Grownups by Brad Montague - A
A Honeybee Heart has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees by Helen Jukes -A
Loose Parts 3: Inspiring Culturally Sustainable Environments by Miriam Beloglovsky
Loose Parts: Inspiring Play in Young Children by Lisa Daly, Miriam Beloglovsky, Jenna Daly
The Times I knew I was Gay by Eleanor Crewes - GN
Permission to Feel by Marc Brackett - A
Jack by Marilynn Robinson -A
Dancing with Bees by Brigit Howard - A
Flamer by Mike Curato - GN
Twins by Johnson - GN, juv
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender - A, juv
Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram -A, ya


December (5)
Notes from a Young Black Chef: a memoir by Kwame Onwuachi -A
Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby - A
A Promised Land by Barack Obama - A
Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson - A, juv
More Myself: A Journey by Alicia Keys - A


Did not finish
Home ground : language for an American landscape / Barry Lopez, editor ; Debra Gwartney, managing editor. (I really wanted to read this, just couldn't concentrate on it, will try again in the future.)





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