2020 Listening Book Club
2020 List
Wow … 206 titles this year! We were lucky to have audiobooks to keep us busy and to help keep our minds off the stresses of the pandemic. Did you miss, make or exceed your reading goals this year? Do you prefer to go with the flow or do you like structured “To Be Read” [TBR] Lists?
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Rating legend:
5-stars Loved, loved, loved it, unique topic/story and dynamic narration
4-stars Good story and it had good narrator(s)
3-stars Average topic/story and it had good narrator(s)
I won’t have any lower ratings, when I sense a book is not for me I give up on it, life is to short to grunt your way through a book that isn’t for you. ;)
| 2020 List |
- Tiny Pretty Things (Tiny Pretty Things, #1) by Sona Charaipotra 5-stars 
- People in Hell Want Ice Water by Edan Lepucki 4-stars 
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson 5-stars 
- Christmas Kisses Collection (Echo Ridge Romance, #1) by Cami Checketts 5-stars 
- The Wisdom of Sundays by Oprah Winfrey 4-stars 
- Are You Sleeping by Kathleen Barbers 5-stars 
- Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany Jackson 5-stars 
- You Can Thank Me Later: A Novella by Kelly Harms 5-stars 
- Until Friday Night (The Field Party, #1) by Abbi Glines 5-stars 
- The Mountain Story by Lori Lansens 5-stars 
- Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture by Emma Dabiri 4-stars 
- Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy 4-stars 
- Twisted Twenty-Six (Stephanie Plum, #26) by Janet Evanovich 4-stars 
- Native Son by Richard Wright 4-stars 
- Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson 5-stars 
- The Perfect Son by Lauren North 5-stars 
- The 50th Law by 50 Cent 5-stars 
- Beasts Made of Night (Beasts Made of Night, #1) by Tochi Onyebuchi 4-stars 
- Royal Holiday (The Wedding Date, #4) by Jasmine Guillory 5-stars 
- The Best Lies by Sarah Lyu 4-stars 
- Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi 4-stars 
- Agency by William Gibson 3-stars 
- The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone, #2) by Abby Jimenez 5-stars 
- Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson 5-stars 
- Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter by 50 Cent 5-stars 
- The Greatest You: Face Reality, Release Negativity, and Live Your Purpose by Trent Shelton 5-stars 
- Heart, Mind, and Intention by Gabrielle Bernstein 5-stars 
- Breathe into Rejuvenation Meditation by Gabrielle Bernstein 5-stars 
- You Are Here by Gabrielle Bernstein 5-stars 
- I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh 5-stars 
- Snapped (Playbook, #4) by Alexa Martin 5-stars 
- The Au Pair by Emma Rous 4-stars 
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo 5-stars 
- Dear Wife by 5-stars 
- Plan a Happy Life™:by Stephanie Fleming 5-stars 
- Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson 5-stars 
- The Birthday Girl by Melissa de la Cruz 5-stars 
- Temper by Layne Fargo 3-stars 
- Fashionably Dead (Hot Damned, #1) by Robyn Peterman 5-stars 
- For Better and Worse by Margot Hunt 5-stars 
- Before She Knew Him by Peter Swanson 5-stars 
- My Husband's Wife by Jane Corry 5-stars 
- Never Have I Ever (The Lying Game, #2) by Sara Shepard 5-stars 
- May Cause Miracles: A 40-Day Guidebook by Gabrielle Bernstein 4-stars 
- The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1) by Sara Shepard 4-stars 
- The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware 4-stars 
- The Night Swim by Megan Goldin 5-stars 
- Didn't See That Coming by Rachel Hollis 5-stars 
- Emotionless (Galleria Sisters #1) by J.Jahquel 5-stars 
- The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff 5-stars 
- Parachutes by Kelly Yang 5-stars 
- Slay by Brittney Morris 5-stars 
- You Are the Guru by by Gabrielle Bernstein 5-stars 
- The Wives by Tarryn Fisher 5-stars 
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 4-stars 
- Watch Me Disappear by Janelle Brown 5-stars 
- Proof of Love by Chisa Hutchinson 5-stars 
- Can't Escape Love (Reluctant Royals, #2.6) by Alyssa Cole 5-stars 
- Her Personal Assistant (Dominating PA #1) by Lexy Timms 3-stars 
- Let Love Have the Last Word by Common 5-stars 
- Evil Eye by Madhuri Shekar 5-stars 
- Bluebird Memories: A Journey Through Lyrics & Life by Common 5-stars 
- She Lies in Wait (DCI Jonah Sheens, #1) by Gytha Lodge 4-stars 
- Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back by Gary John Bishop 5-stars 
- Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life by Gary John Bishop 5-stars 
- Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1) by Michael Robotham 4-stars 
- Sky in the Deep (Sky in the Deep, #1) by Adrienne Young 5-stars 
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 5-stars 
- The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez 5-stars 
- Blitzed (Playbook #3) by Alexa Martin 5-stars 
- TB 12 by Tom Brady 4-stars 
- Be with Me (Strickland Sisters, #3) by Alexandria House 5-stars 
- Meet Cute by Helena Hunting 5-stars 
- The Pursuit of Healthiness with Blake Griffin by Blake Griffin 5-stars 
- Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined to Meet by Jennifer L. Armentrout 3-stars 
- Saint X by Alexis Schatkin 5-stars 
- Size 12 Is Not Fat (Heather Wells, #1) by Meg Cabot 5-stars 
- Made to Love by Alexandria House 4-stars 
- Last Breath (Good Daughter, #0.5) by Karin Slaughter 5-stars 
- Real Love by Alexandria House 5-stars 
- Puddin' (Dumplin' #2) Julie Murphy 5-stars 
- The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa 5-stars 
- Persuasion by Jane Austen 2-stars 
- Cop Town by Karin Slaughter 5-stars 
- The Roxy Letters by Mary Pauline Lowry 5-stars 
- Higher Love (Love After #1) by Alexandria House 4-stars 
- If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane 4-stars 
- Shadowshaper (Shadowshaper, #1) by Daniel José Older 5-stars 
- Believe in Me (Strickland Sisters, #2) by Alexandria House 5-stars 
- America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis 5-stars 
- Scoring With the Wrong Twin (WAGS, #1) by Naima Simone 4-stars 
- Stay With Me (Strickland Sisters, #1) by Alexandria House 5-stars 
- Someone We Know by Shari Lapena 5-stars 
- Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1) by Thomas Harris 3-stars 
- Sugar Free (Sugar Bowl, #3) by Sawyer Bennett 5-stars 
- Sugar Rush (Sugar Bowl, #2) by Sawyer Bennett 5-stars 
- Dumplin' (Dumplin' #1) by Julie Murphy 5-stars 
- Sugar Daddy (Sugar Bowl, #1) by Sawyer Bennett 5-stars 
- Flyy Girl (Flyy Girl, #1) by Omar Tyree 4-stars 
- Genevieve by Eric Jerome Dickey 3-stars 
- Lakewood by Megan Giddings 5-stars 
- The Roommate (Cormac Reilly, #.7) by Dervla McTiernan 5-stars 
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng 5-stars 
- Inside Jobs: Tales from a Time of Quarantine by Ben H.Winters 5-stars 
- African-American Athletes who Made History by Louis Moore 5-stars 
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo 5-stars 
- Lakewood by Megan Giddings 5-stars 
- Life Ever After by Carla Grauls 5-stars 
- The Girls by Emma Cline 4-stars 
- The Stranger Inside by Lisa Unger 5-stars 
- Girl Gone Viral (Modern Love, #2) by Alisha Rai 5-stars 
- Grip (Grip, #1) by Kennedy Ryan 5-stars 
- A Villains Collection by Serena Valentino 4-stars 
- Here and Gone by Haylen Beck 5-stars 
- Take a Hint, Dani Brown (The Brown Sisters, #2) by Talia Hibbert 5-stars 
- The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride 5-stars 
- A Bad Day for Sunshine (Sunshine Vicram, #1) by Darynda Jones 5-stars 
- The Keeper by Jessica Moor 4-stars 
- Citizen Outlaw: One Man's Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper by Charles Barber 5-stars 
- Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite 5-stars 
- The Girl Before by J.P. Delaney 5-stars 
- The Herd by Andrea Bartz 5-stars 
- The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh 4-stars 
- Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime by Ron Stallworth 5-stars 
- Fumbled by Alexa Martin 5-stars 
- The Proposal (The Wedding Date, #2) by Jasmine Guillory 5-stars 
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 5-stars 
- The Bromance Book Club (Bromance Book Club, #1) by Alyssa Adams 4-stars 
- Finding Yvonne by Brandy Colbert 4-stars 
- Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, #1) by Daniel H.Wilson 3-stars 
- Enemies by Tijan 5-stars 
- The Chain by Adrian McKinty 5-stars 
- The Good Son by You-jeong Jeong 5-stars 
- The Better Liar by Tanen Jones 5-stars 
- Confess by Colleen Hoover 5-stars 
- His Perfect Wife by Natasha Bell 5-stars 
- The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis 4-stars 
- Queen Bee (Lowcountry Tales, #12) by Dorothea Benton Frank 5-stars 
- Educated by Tara Westover 4-stars 
- Manhunting by Jennifer Crusie 4-stars 
- The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date, #1) by Jasmine Guillory 5-stars 
- Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1) by Tomi Adeyemi 4-stars 
- In Her Bones by Kate Moretti 4-stars 
- Shaq Uncut: Tall Tales and Untold Stories by Shaquille O'Neal, Jackie MacMullan 5-stars 
- Dead to Her by Sarah Pinborough 5-stars 
- Catwoman: Soulstealer (DC Icons #3) by Sarah J. Maas 5-stars 
- Pick-Up Game: A Full Day of Full Court by Marc Aronson 5-stars 
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy #1) by Marlon James 3-stars 
- Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters #1) by Talia Hibbert 5-stars 
- Lock Every Door by Riley Sager 4-stars 
- Tell Me Lies by JP Pomare 4-stars 
- Roar by Cecelia Ahern 4-stars 
- Tweet Cute by Emma Lord 5-stars 
- Queen of Nothing by Holly Black 5-stars 
- Speed Dating by Noelle Adams 4-stars 
- The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle 4-stars 
- Teach Me by Alexandria House 4-stars 
- Bloody Valentine & Keys To The Repository by Melissa de la Cruz 3-stars 
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb 5-stars 
- Wonder Woman: Warbringer (DC Icons #1) by Leigh Bardugo 5-stars 
- An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen 5-stars 
- Roomating by Noelle Adams 4-stars 
- Conviction by Denise Mina 3-stars 
- Beautiful Bad by Annie Ward 5-stars 
- Mercy by Jodi Picoult 4-stars 
- Tinaca Jones by Matt Boren 3-stars 
- Note to Self: Inspiring Figures Write t the Young People They Once Were by Gayle King 5-stars 
- Looker by Laura Sims 4-stars 
- White Lies by Lucy Dawson 4-stars 
- Feed by M.T. Anderson 3-stars 
 
            