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🥳 HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉 We are a week into the new decade, and I am so excited about all the amazing books we have ahead of us. I also REALLY love starting a new reading spreadsheet. It’s an epic nerdpurr. And I think this year, I’m going to go back to writing down a short synopsis of every book I read. I fell out of that habit years ago, but I think it will be helpful as I attempt to read more books than ever this year!
Like I said, I am so excited for more books! I already have a handful of 2020 titles under my belt, and am headed to read another one as soon as I finish this newsletter. You can hear about several of the great books out this first new release day of 2020 on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about The Black Cathedral, Why We Can’t Sleep, Qualityland, and more.
And like with each megalist, I’m putting a 
next to the books that I have had the chance to read and loved. It has been slow reading for me the last few months, so I haven’t read as many as I wished, but I did get to a few of today’s books. And there are soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to read!
The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir by E.J. Koh
Shadowshaper: Legacy by Daniel José Older
City of Stone and Silence (The Wells of Sorcery Trilogy) by Django Wexler
The Secret Chapter (The Invisible Library series) by Genevieve Cogman
We Used to Be Friends by Amy Spalding
Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun
Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives by Daniel J Levitin
Where Have All the Boys Gone? by Jenny Colgan
A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by Jane McAlevey
Yellow Earth by John Sayles
The Art of Dying
by Ambrose Parry
Kill Reply All: A Modern Guide to Online Etiquette, from Social Media to Work to Love by Victoria Turk
The Simple Past by Driss Chraibi, Hugh A. Harter (Translator)
A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer
Westering Women: A Novel by Sandra Dallas
You Were There Too by Colleen Oakley
Every Other Weekend by Abigail Johnson
Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling
Just Breathe by Cammie McGovern
Nameless Queen by Rebecca McLaughlin
Average is the New Awesome: A Manifesto for the Rest of Us by Samantha Matt
Topics of Conversation: A novel by Miranda Popkey
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work by Tiffany Jewell, Aurelia Durand
Three Things I Know Are True by Betty Culley
Clean Getaway by Nic Stone
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It by Kamal Ravikant
BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams by Michael Allred, Steve Horton , et al.
All the Days Past, All the Days to Come by Mildred D. Taylor
Jinxed by Amy McCulloch
The Last Witness by Claire McFall
Don’t Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language by David Shariatmadari
Grace Is Gone: A Novel by Emily Elgar
You Too?: 25 Voices Share Their #MeToo Stories by Janet Gurtler
Oasis: A Novel by Katya de Becerra
The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy by Chris Murphy
The Black Cathedral: A Novel by Marcial Gala, Anna Kushner (translator)
Welcome to the Pine Away Motel and Cabins by Katarina Bivald
Diana: Princess of the Amazons by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale, et al.
Come Tumbling Down (Wayward Children) by Seanan McGuire
Mr. Nobody: A Novel by Catherine Steadman
Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir by Marsha M. Linehan
Lady Clementine: A Novel by Marie Benedict
Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity by Peggy Orenstein
A Love Hate Thing by Whitney D. Grandison
Keystone by Katie Delahanty
F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me by Chloé Hilliard
Furious Thing by Jenny Downham
Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition by P. Carl
Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez
Lady Hotspur by Tessa Gratton
A Sportsman’s Notebook: Stories (Art of the Story) by Ivan Turgenev
Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers
Martin McLean, Middle School Queen by Alyssa Zaczek
The Kids Are in Bed: Finding Time for Yourself in the Chaos of Parenting by Rachel Bertsche
Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer’s Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book by Courtney Maum
Creatures: A Novel by Crissy Van Meter
Lie to Me by Kaitlin Ward
Only Love Can Break Your Heart by Katherine Webber
How to Speak Boy by Tiana Smith
Scavenge the Stars by Tara Sim
Wyntertide by Andrew Caldecott
Dear Edward: A Novel by Ann Napolitano
The Map from Here to There by Emery Lord
The Schrodinger Girl by Laurel Brett
Firebird by Mark Powell
One of Us Is Next: The Sequel to One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
House on Endless Waters by Emuna Elon
The God Game: A Novel by Danny Tobey
The Heap: A Novel by Sean Adams
Rocket Man: The Life of Elton John by Mark Bego
The Girls with No Names by Serena Burdick
The Gimmicks: A Novel by Chris McCormick
Westwind by Ian Rankin
Fuel Your Fire: 200 Ways to Instantly Beat Burnout and Reignite Your Passion by Samantha Acton
Cesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin by Jerome Charyn
First Cut: A Novel by Judy Melinek M.D and T.J. Mitchell
Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen
Butterfly by Ashley Antoinette
Deep State: A Thriller by Chris Hauty
It’s My Life by Stacie Ramey
Two Blankets, Three Sheets by Rodaan Al Galidi, Jonathan Reeder (translator)
Jane Anonymous: A Novel by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Raising Hell: Backstage Tales from the Lives of Metal Legends by Jon Wiederhorn
The American People: Volume 2: The Brutality of Fact: A Novel by Larry Kramer
Flowers in the Gutter: The True Story of the Edelweiss Pirates, Teenagers Who Resisted the Nazis by K. R. Gaddy
19 Love Songs by David Levithan
Failure to Launch: Why Your Twentysomething Hasn’t Grown Up…and What to Do About It by Mark McConville Ph.D.
Physical Intelligence: The Science of How the Body and the Mind Guide Each Other Through Life by Scott Grafton
The Vanishing (Fogg Lake) by Jayne Ann Krentz
Thanks for joining me every Tuesday. Here’s to an amazing new decade full of books. See you next week!
xx,
Liberty