Books Read in 2020

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Bernard of Clairvaux: An Inner Life
by Brian Patrick McGuire
7 members
5
Global Rank 262
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The Girl and the Rat
by Jari Järvelä
6 members
2.8
Global Rank 381
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Searching for Rose
by Dana Becker
9 members
3 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 456
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Life After Truth
by Ceridwen Dovey
19 members
2 reviews
3
Global Rank 519
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Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents
by Lise Funderburg
18 members
4.2
Global Rank 590
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Around Harvard Square
by C.J. Farley
22 members
10 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 707
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Character: The History of a Cultural Obsession
by Marjorie Garber
33 members
4
Global Rank 768
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The Rule of Many
by Ashley Saunders
51 members
½ 3.6
Global Rank 825
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No More Work: Why Full Employment Is a Bad Idea
by James Livingston
46 members
1 review
3.2
Global Rank 883
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Athena's Choice
by Adam Boostrom
46 members
10 reviews
½ 3.4
Global Rank 939
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Jilo
by J. D. Horn
63 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 986
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On faith : lessons from an American believer
by Antonin Scalia
72 members
½ 4.4
Global Rank 1,037
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While the World Is Still Asleep
by Petra Durst-Benning
68 members
2 reviews
4
Global Rank 1,085
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Tomb of Ancients
by Madeleine Roux
81 members
2.9
Global Rank 1,132
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The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America
by Robert Wuthnow
87 members
1 review
4.1
Global Rank 1,175
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Nothing Can Hurt You
by Nicola Maye Goldberg
107 members
9 reviews
3.2
Global Rank 1,243
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Beirut Hellfire Society
by Rawi Hage
114 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
Global Rank 1,286
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Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion
by Susan Ronald
106 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
Global Rank 1,323
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The Best American Essays 2019
by Rebecca Solnit
130 members
2 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 1,362
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Hundred Years' War on Palestine
by Rashid Khalidi
553 members
7 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 1,393
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The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ
by Roger Stone
143 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 1,441
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Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
by Nicola Tallis
168 members
4 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 1,487
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The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
by Thomas Penn
193 members
1 review
4.1
Global Rank 1,527
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Minor Detail
by Shibli Adania
405 members
23 reviews
4
Global Rank 1,556
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The Radical King
by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
229 members
27 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 1,617
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One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow
by Olivia Hawker
282 members
20 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 1,674
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Plague Land
by S D Sykes
217 members
19 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 1,716
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A Girl Like That
by Tanaz Bhathena
268 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 1,761
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The Lighthouse Road
by Peter Geye
261 members
20 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 1,805
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When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
by Kara Cooney
376 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 1,837
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Why Religion?: A Personal Story
by Elaine Pagels
363 members
18 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 1,878
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The First Time She Drowned
by Kerry Kletter
337 members
19 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 1,917
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His Only Wife
by Peace Adzo Medie
440 members
48 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 1,950
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The Vine Witch
by Luanne G. Smith
694 members
23 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 1,976
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The Norman Conquest
by Marc Morris
658 members
12 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 2,004
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Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
by Meg Medina
642 members
45 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 2,035
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If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
by Gregg Olsen
1,069 members
55 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 2,067
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The Shadows
by Alex North
1,104 members
45 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 2,101
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The House We Grew Up In
by Lisa Jewell
970 members
53 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 2,135
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The Matisse Stories
by A.S. Byatt
1,185 members
20 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 2,160
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The Evening and the Morning
by Ken Follett
2,112 members
73 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 2,190
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The Name of the Star
by Maureen Johnson
2,311 members
193 reviews
4
Global Rank 2,214
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Lila
by Marilynne Robinson
2,512 members
113 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 2,244
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Hunger
by Michael Grant
2,504 members
83 reviews
4
Global Rank 2,273
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Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President
by Candice Millard
2,954 members
154 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 2,301
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Gone
by Michael Grant
4,960 members
210 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 2,330
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Dissolution
by C. J. Sansom
4,161 members
196 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 732
2 Members
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The Silkworm
by Robert Galbraith
6,114 members
353 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 727
2 Members
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
by Mary Beard
4,656 members
88 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 721
2 Members
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This Is How It Always Is
by Laurie Frankel
1,678 members
83 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 722
2 Members
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The Rabbit Girls
by Anna Ellory
170 members
6 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 723
2 Members
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The Miniaturist
by Jessie Burton
3,925 members
220 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 718
2 Members
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The Stranger Inside
by Lisa Unger
301 members
15 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 622
2 Members
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Lords of the Bow
by Conn Iggulden
1,338 members
31 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 610
2 Members
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How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
4,051 members
98 reviews
4.2
Global Rank 620
2 Members
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Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
22,058 members
1,542 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 629
2 Members
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Good Girl, Bad Girl
by Michael Robotham
586 members
35 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 638
2 Members
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The Magicians
by Lev Grossman
10,227 members
670 reviews
½ 3.4
Global Rank 633
2 Members
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The Chain
by Adrian McKinty
1,519 members
79 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 634
2 Members
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Necessary People
by Anna Pitoniak
275 members
10 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 636
2 Members
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Sword Song: The Battle for London
by Bernard Cornwell
2,246 members
44 reviews
4
Global Rank 641
2 Members
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The Geometry of Holding Hands
by Alexander McCall Smith
189 members
17 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 640
2 Members
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In the House in the Dark of the Woods
by Laird Hunt
358 members
27 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 631
2 Members
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Three-Martini Lunch
by Suzanne Rindell
177 members
15 reviews
4
Global Rank 628
2 Members
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Kibogo
by Scholastique Mukasonga
63 members
8 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 632
2 Members
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Wolf of the Plains
by Conn Iggulden
1,981 members
64 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 639
2 Members
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The Flatshare
by Beth O'Leary
2,057 members
110 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 617
2 Members
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Spill Simmer Falter Wither
by Sara Baume
458 members
33 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 609
2 Members
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At Night All Blood Is Black
by David Diop
691 members
29 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 615
2 Members
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All This I Will Give to You
by Dolores Redondo
622 members
20 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 623
2 Members
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Frankissstein
by Jeanette Winterson
713 members
39 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 637
2 Members
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The Eight Mountains
by Paolo Cognetti
805 members
43 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 642
2 Members
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The Meursault Investigation
by Kamel Daoud
878 members
37 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 648
2 Members
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The Winter of the Witch
by Katherine Arden
1,561 members
79 reviews
½ 4.4
Global Rank 652
2 Members
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The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
1,975 members
109 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 658
2 Members
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Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett
3,631 members
188 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 661
2 Members
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There There
by Tommy Orange
4,260 members
192 reviews
4
Global Rank 662
2 Members
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The Labyrinth of the Spirits
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
1,656 members
49 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 644
2 Members
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Three Women
by Lisa Taddeo
1,478 members
60 reviews
½ 3.6
Global Rank 645
2 Members
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The Parisian
by Isabella Hammad
399 members
14 reviews
½ 3.3
Global Rank 646
2 Members
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The Great Pretender
by Susannah Cahalan
700 members
17 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 651
2 Members
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The Lords of the North
by Bernard Cornwell
2,696 members
49 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 654
2 Members
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These Truths: A History of the United States
by Jill Lepore
1,575 members
40 reviews
½ 4.3
Global Rank 655
2 Members
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84
Ask Again, Yes
by Mary Beth Keane
1,984 members
90 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 659
2 Members
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Asymmetry: A Novel
by Lisa Halliday
1,021 members
55 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 650
2 Members
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A Beautiful Blue Death
by Charles Finch
1,512 members
113 reviews
½ 3.5
Global Rank 653
2 Members
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Right after the weather
by Carol Anshaw
94 members
8 reviews
½ 3.4
Global Rank 614
2 Members
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Bad Axe County
by John Galligan
96 members
21 reviews
½ 3.3
Global Rank 613
2 Members
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The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul
by Eleanor Herman
286 members
8 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 612
2 Members
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Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks
8,708 members
411 reviews
4
Global Rank 619
2 Members
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
by Christy Lefteri
1,463 members
48 reviews
4
Global Rank 621
2 Members
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The Cider House Rules
by John Irving
11,729 members
157 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 625
2 Members
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The Pale Horseman
by Bernard Cornwell
3,039 members
70 reviews
4
Global Rank 626
2 Members
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One Part Woman
by Perumal Murugan
201 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
Global Rank 624
2 Members
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The Duchess War
by Courtney Milan
949 members
66 reviews
3.9
Global Rank 635
2 Members
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
by Greg Lukianoff
1,428 members
32 reviews
4.1
Global Rank 630
2 Members
peterveen, kara.shamy
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Cartwheel
by Jennifer DuBois
436 members
86 reviews
3.2
Global Rank 627
2 Members
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The Last Kingdom
by Bernard Cornwell
4,718 members
150 reviews
4
Global Rank 618
2 Members
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The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
by H. G. Parry
514 members
19 reviews
4
Global Rank 207
3 Members
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The Portrait of a Mirror
by A. Natasha Joukovsky
103 members
2 reviews
3.8
Global Rank 616
2 Members
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