2020 Reading List

Realized I hadn't published a reading list in a while. Better now but I'll probably post a year end recap as well. Last year I read a record 34 books. With the pandemic and working so much from home I fell off the pace this year, since most of my reading is listening to audiobooks during my commute. Plus now I'm on the phone for most of my drive home in the afternoons.

Hopefully I'll finish the year strong, as I have several books on reserve. According to www.goodreads.com I have read 481 books, so next year I should pass the 500 mark. 

Here's what I've read so far this year, in alphabetical order by author.

1. The Warsaw Protocol (Cotton Malone #15) by Steve Berry. All across Europe, Christian artifacts are being stolen.  

2. The Andromeda Evolution, by Michael Crichton. Sequel to the famous Andromeda Strain.

3. Dragon Teeth, by Michael Crichton. Digging for dinosaur fossils in the old west. 

4. Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West, by David Fisher. Separating truth from fiction. Annie Oakley, Davy Crockett, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, Jessie James, Kit Carson, Wild Bill Hickock, Daniel Boone, Buffalo Bill.

5. Camino Winds (Camino Island #2) by John Grisham. The adventures of a bookshop owner in a small Florida coastal resort community. Did his friend really die in the hurricane? 

6. Witness to a Trial (The Whistler #0.5), by John Grisham. A short prequel / introduction.

7. The Reckoning, by John Grisham. A small town's favorite son commits a shocking murder. Why? 

8. The Guardians, by John Grisham. A young black man is framed for the murder of his lawyer.

9. The Great Alone, by Kristin Hannah. Life in the rough Alaskan wilderness. 

10. Home Front, by Kristin Hannah. A mother balances her household and trials as an Army helicopter pilot.

11. An American Marriage, by Tayari Jones. Based in Atlanta. 

12. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Chronicles of Narnia #3 by CS Lewis

13. Tweet Cute: A Novel, by Emma Lord. A modern-day Shop Around the Corner. 

14. The Turnaround, by RT Martin. The new high school baseball coach uses sketchy methods to improve his team.

15. The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides. A who done it. 

16. Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz #2) by Heather Morris. Life during the Holocaust.

17. Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens. Life in the marshes of coastal Carolina. Being developed into a movie by Reese Witherspoon. 

18. The Soul of Baseball: a Road Trip through Buck O'Neil's America, by Joe Posnanski. An interesting read during the 2020 race riots. We all need to adopt Buck's positive outlook on life.

19. Daisy Jones & The Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Sex, drugs, and rock & roll. 

20. Play Like You Mean It, by Rex Ryan. The former Jets coach tells it like it is, though he may have glorified his father's career a bit.

21. The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great, by Ben Shapiro. A needed reminder in this age of chaos. 

22. There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me, by Brooke Shields. Read by the author. Explains many of Brooke's choices in life. Could be a miracle she turned out as well as she did.

23. Irresistible: Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World, by Andy Stanley. Few can cut to the heart of the matter and explain things so simply as Andy. A primer for those who took the "Andy says the Old Testament doesn't matter" rumors seriously. 

24. The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe.

I post these not to brag. Others read far more than me. I just like to keep a record of what I'm reading.