Reading Log 2020

The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff
Published 2019
History
Started: November 29, 2019
Finished: put on hold for awhile

The Good Earth (Books and Beer Club)
Pearl S. Buck
Published 1931
Historical fiction classic
Started: December 24, 2019
Finished: January 10, 2020

The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah
Published 2018
Historical fiction
Started: January 10, 2020
Finished: January 22, 2020

From Sand and Ash (Jewish Book Club)
Amy Harmon
Published 2016
Historical fiction
Started: January 20, 2020
Finished: January 28, 2020

An American Marriage
Tayari Jones
Published 2018
Contemporary fiction
Started: January 28, 2020
Finished: February 3, 2020

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
Tembi Locke
Published 2019
Memoir
Started: February 3, 2020
Finished: February 11, 2020

Little Women (Community Book Club)
Louisa May Alcott
Published 1868
Classic
Started: February 11, 2020
Finished: dropped

The Christmas Boutique
Jennifer Chiaverini
Published 2019
Contemporary fiction
Started: February 14, 2020
Finished: February 19, 2020

Me (Books and Beer Club)
Elton John
Published 2019
Autobiography
Started: February 19, 2020
Finished: March 2, 2020

Postscript (P.S. I Love You #2)
Cecilia Ahern
Published 2019
Contemporary fiction
Started: March 10, 2020
Finished: March 14, 2020

Dear Edward
Ann Napolitano
Published 2020
Contemporary fiction
Started: March 14, 2020
Finished: March 18, 2020

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
Greta Thunberg
Published 2019
Literary speeches
Started: March 14, 2020
Finished: March 19, 2020

When We Believed in Mermaids
Barbara O'Neal
Published 2019
Started: March 18, 2020
Finished: March 23, 2020

A Woman Is No Man (Community Book Club)
Etaf Rum
Published 2019
Contemporary fiction
Started: March 19, 2020
Finished: March 22, 2020

The Mother-in-Law (Community Book Club)
Sally Hepworth
Published 2019
Thriller
Started: March 24, 2020
Finished: March 27, 2020

The Tattooist of Auschwitz (Community Book Club)
Heather Morris
Published 2018
Historical fiction
Started: March 27, 2020
Finished: March 31, 2020

America's First Daughter (Community Book Club)
Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie
Published 2016
Historical fiction
Started: March 31, 2020
Finished: April 8, 2020

The Paris Architect (Community Book Club)
Charles Belfoure
Published 2013
Historical fiction
Started: April 8, 2020
Finished: April 12, 2020

The Silent Patient 
Alex Michaelides
Published 2019
Mystery Thriller
Started: April 12, 2020
Finished: April 13, 2020

Born A Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Community Book Club)
Trevor Noah
Published 2016
Memoir
Started: April 13, 2020
Finished: April 16, 2020

As Bright as Heaven
Susan Meissner
Published 2018
Historical fiction
Started: April 16, 2020
Finished: April 18, 2020

The Sorrows of Young Werther (Books and Beer Club)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Published 1774
Classic Romance
Started: April 18, 2020
Finished: April 21, 2020

Letters From An Astrophysicist
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Published 2019
Nonfiction (science)
Started: April 18, 2020
Dropped: April 22, 2020

Florida (short stories) (Community Book Club)
Lauren Groff
Published 2018
Short stories
Started: April 21, 2020
Finished: May 4, 2020

The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street
Susan Jane Gilman
Published 2014
Historical fiction
Started: April 22, 2020
Finished:  April 29, 2020

Not Our Kind
Kitty Zeldis
Published 2018
Historical fiction
Started: May 4, 2020
Finished: May 9, 2020

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Community book club)
Yuval Noah Harari
Published 2014
Non-fiction/anthropology
Started: May 10, 2020
Finished: July 7, 2020

The Grace Kelly Dress
Brenda Janowitz
Published 2020
Women's fiction
Started: May 11, 2020
Finished: May 15, 2020

Letters for Emily
Camron Wright
Published 2001
Contemporary fiction
Started: May 17, 2020
Finished: May 17, 2020

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Books & Beer)
John Berendt
Published 1994
Literary non-fiction/True crime/Southern history
Started: May 18, 2020
Finished: May 26, 2020

The Violin of Auschwitz
Maria Angels Anglada
Published 1983
Historical fiction novella
Started: May 24, 2020
Finished: May 24, 2020

The Star and the Shamrock
Jean Grainger
Published 2019
Historical fiction
Started: May 26, 2020
Finished: May 28, 2020

The Marrying of Chani Kaufman
Eve Harris
Published 2013
Jewish fiction
Started: May 28, 2020
Finished: June 4, 2020

The Orphan Keeper
Camron Wright
Published 2016
Historical fiction
Started: May 31, 2020
Finished: June 2, 2020

The Rent Collector
Camron Wright
Published 2012
Contemporary fiction
Started: June 4, 2020
Finished: June 8, 2020

The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
Published 2016
Historical fiction
Started: June 4, 2020
Finished: July 18, 2020

Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Published 1937
Classic
Started: June 8, 2020
Finished: June 10, 2020

Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
Deborah Layton
Published 1997
Memoir
Started: June 10, 2020
Finished: June 15, 2020

Circe (Community Book Club)
Madeline Miller
Published 2018
Fantasy
Started: June 15, 2020
Finished: June 24, 2020

A Week at the Shore
Barbara Delinsky
Published 2020
Women's fiction
Started: June 24, 2020
Finished: June 28, 2020

Goddess of Battle (Jewish Book Club)
Gwendolyn Rachel Ackerman
Published 2017
Contemporary fiction
Started: June 28, 2020
Finished: July 2, 2020

Goldilocks
Laura Lam
Published 2020
Science fiction
Started: July 7, 2020
Finished: July 10, 2020

The Sisters Weiss
Naomi Ragen
Published 2013
Jewish fiction
Started: July 10, 2020
Finished: July 14, 2020

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Mary L. Trump
Published 2020
Memoir
Started: July 16, 2020
Finished: July 16, 2020

Summer of '69
Elin Hilderbrand
Published 2019
Historical fiction
Started: July 18, 2020
Finished: July 22, 2020

Cilka's Journey
Heather Morris
Published 2019
Historical fiction
Started: July 22, 2020
Finished: July 24, 2020

The Girl with the Louding Voice
Abi Daré
Published 2020
Contemporary fiction
Started: July 24, 2020
Finished: July 27, 2020

The Book of Lost Friends
Lisa Wingate
Published 2020
Historical fiction
Started: July 27, 2020
Finished: August 1, 2020

The Answer is...: Reflections on My Life
Alex Trebek
Published 2020
Memoir
Started: August 1, 2020
Finished: August 2, 2020

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
Robert Dugoni
Published 2018
Coming-of-Age
Started: August 2, 2020
Finished: August 6, 2020

Mrs. Lincoln's Sisters
Jennifer Chiaverini
Published 2020
Historical fiction
Started: August 6, 2020
Finished: August 11, 2020

Adequate Yearly Progress
Roxanna Elden

Published 2018

Contemporary fiction

Started: August 11, 2020

Finished: August 14, 2020

Someone Knows My Name
Lawrence Hill

Published 2007

Historical fiction

Started: August 14, 2020
Finished: August 17, 2020

If You Want to Make God Laugh

Bianca Marais

Published 2019

Historical fiction

Started: August 14, 2020

Finished: August 19, 2020

The Third Daughter

Talia Carner
Published 2019
Historical fiction
Started: August 19, 2020

Finished: August 24, 2020

New York: The Novel

Edward Rutherfurd

Published 2010
Historical fiction
Started: August 24, 2020

Finished: September 1, 2020

The Pull of the Stars

Emma Donoghue
Published 2020
Historical fiction

Started: September 1, 2020
Finished: September 4, 2020

The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
Published 2020
Historical fiction
Started: September 4, 2020
Finished: September 6, 2020

The Saturday Wife  (Jewish Book Club)

Naomi Ragen
Published 2007
Contemporary fiction

Started: September 6, 2020
Finished: September 10, 2020

The Book of Lost Names
Kristin Harmel
Published 2020
Historical fiction
Started: September 10, 2020
Finished: September 11, 2020

The Orphan Collector
Ellen Marie Wiseman
Published 2020
Historical fiction

Started: September 12, 2020

Finished: September 14, 2020

Red at the Bone
Jacqueline Woodson
Published 2019
Contemporary fiction
Started: September 14, 2020

Finished: September 16, 2020

Sima's Undergarments for Women
Ilana Stanger-Ross
Published 2008
Women's fiction
Started: September 15, 2020
Finished: Septemer 18, 2020

The Crazyladies of Pearl Street
Trevanian
Published 2006
Historical fiction
Started: September 16, 2020
Finished: September 23, 2020

If All the Seas Were Ink
Ilana Kurshan
Published 2017

Memoir
Started: September 19, 2020

Finished: 

A Fall of Marigolds
Susan Meissner
Published 2014
Historical fiction
Started: September 23, 2020
Finished: September 25, 2020

28 Summers

Elin Hilderbrand

Published 2020
Contemporary fiction

Started: September 25, 2020

Finished: September 29, 2020

Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
Michael Cohen
Published 2020

Memoir

Started: September 29, 2020
Finished: October 5, 2020

Moonglow
Michael Chabon
Published 2016
Historical fiction

Started: October 5, 2020
Dropped: October 8, 2020

Squeeze Me
Carl Hiaasen
Published 2020

Humorous fiction
Started: October 8, 2020
Finished: October 16, 2020

Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

Published 2020

Memoir

Started: October 16, 2020

Finished: October 21, 2020

Rage
Bob Woodward
Published 2020

Politics
Started: October 21, 2020

Finished: October 24, 2020

Girl, Woman, Other (Community book club)
Bernardine Evaristo

Published 2019
Contemporary fiction

Started: October 24, 2020

Finished: November 4, 2020

Beach Read
Emily Henry

Published 2020

Contemporary Romance
Started: October 25, 2020

Finished: October 27, 2020

The Book of Two Ways
Jodi Picoult

Published 2020

Contemporary fiction

Started: November 4, 2020

Finished: November 9, 2020

The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem (Jewish Book Club)
Sarit Yishai-Levi
Published 2013
Historical fiction
Started: November 9, 2020
Finished: November 17, 2020

The Takeaway Men
Meryl Ain
Published 2020
Historical fiction
Started: November 17, 2020
Finished: November 22, 2020

A Tale of Love and Darkness

Amos Oz

Published 2002
Autobiography
Started: November 22, 2020
Dropped

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist and Over Lives Revealed

Lori Gottlieb

Published 2019

Memoir

Started: November 23, 2020
Finished: December 2, 2020

Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters
Barack Obama

Published 2010
Picture book
Started: December 2, 2020
Finished: December 2, 2020

Florence Adler Swims Forever
Rachel Beanland
Published 2020
Historical fiction
Started: December 2, 2020
Finished: December 9, 2020

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Community Book Club)
Kim Michele Richardson

Published 2019

Historical fiction

Started: December 9, 2020

Finished: December 21, 2020

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman
Published 2017
Contemporary fiction
Started: December 21, 2020
Finished: December 24, 2020

Anxious People
Fredrik Backman
Published 2019
Contemporary fiction

Started: December 24, 2020
Finished: December 31, 2020