Books I Read in 2020: 32 Books

📚 Books I Read this year: 32 books.

Here are all the books I read (excluding the ebooks and the ones I gave away.) I may read one more by 2021. It was a difficult year so reading was truly an escape.

My goal was to read 35 books, so I was very close!!

Below are my favorite reads this year split into genres:

Literary fiction: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi and The Girl with the Louding Voice by @abidare_author and Purple Hibiscus by @chimamanda_adichie

Upmarket/Women’s fiction: No Time To Blink by @dina.silver

Romance: The Trouble With Hating You by @sajnipatelbooks & Dear John by @nicholassparks

Thriller/Mystery/Suspense: My Sister The Serial Killer by @oyinbraithwaite & Mr. Perfect by Linda Howard

Non fiction/Biography: The Other Wes Moore by @iamwesmoore & The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin.

For 2021, I hope to read more nonfiction and more books in French-at least five novels in the French language. I’ve lost the habit! 

I have been a lover of books since I was just a little girl. I got my love of reading from my dad. He reads a lot as well. I hope to encourage more people to read–especially Congolese, so I was overjoyed when my post made an impact in the Congolese community on Twitter! We need to kill the saying about “Black people don’t read”-especially Congolese. We do read!

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.– Charles W. Eliot