Book Rankings 2020

Now for something a little different... a complete ranking of the 49 books I read for the first time this year (did not include 3 old favorites I re-read).  

The Top Ten!
01. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
02. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
03. Columbine by Dave Cullen
04. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
05. The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by Sam Wasson
06. Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
07. Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
08. Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin
09. Anna K by Jenny Lee
10. Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

So Good, So Good!
11. Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime and Obsession by Rachel Monroe
12. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel 
13. Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson 
14. Fleabag: The Scriptures by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
15. My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
16. Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia
17. The Searcher by Tana French
18. Three Women by Lisa Taddeo 
19. Heavy by Kiese Laymon
20. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
21. Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh

Would Recommend
22. The Tenant by Katrine Engberg
23. Foe by Iain Reid 
24. Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
25. Thin Girls by Diana Clarke
26. The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
27. Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand
28. Act Like a Lady by Keltie Knight, Becca Tobin, Jac Vanek
29. Take Me Apart by Sara Sligar
30. Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
31. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
32. Malorie by Josh Malerman
33. The Last Book on the Left by Ben Kissel et. al. 
34. Movies (and Other Things) by Shea Serrano

A Mixed Bag
35. Good Me Bad Me by Ali Land
36. The Guest List by Lucy Foley
37. The Herd by Andrea Bartz
38. The Lost Night by Andrea Bartz
39. The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante 
40. The Furies by Katie Lowe
41. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation by Joseph Lanza
42. Let's Go Play at the Adams' by Mendal W. Johnson 
43. Chase Darkness With Me by Billy Jensen
44. Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky 

Stay Far Away!
45. Violet by Scott Thomas
46. The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
47. Tangerine by Christine Mangan
48. Party Girls Die in Pearls by Plum Sykes
49. Long Black Veil by Jennifer Finney Boylan