This year was an uneven year of reading for me. The pandemic started with me being very unfortunately midway through The Stand. I toughed it out, but after that my reading slowed. After months of being home, I wasn’t able to focus on much, but then I jumped into some lighter fare, including a lot of Michael Connelly (Bosch). In the fall, I read quite a few food politics books as a part of an Eat Local work project I’m doing. By the end of the year, I exceeded my normal 50 books by a few.

1. Coyote Destiny by Allen Steele
2. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by Barbara Kingsolver
3. The Stand by Stephen King
4. If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name by Heather Lende
5. Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman
6. Security by Poul Anderson
7. The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
8. Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew
9. Navajos Wear Nikes by Jim Kristofic
10. Little Bee by Chris Cleave
11. Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller
12. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
13. The Peripheral by William Gibson
14. Agency by William Gibson
15. Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
16. Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
17. Sundiver by David Brin
18. 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
19. Heart of a Lion by William Stolzenburg
20. The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
21. The Guardians by John Grisham
22. The Black Ice by Michael Connelly
23. Clock Dance by Anne Tyler
24. Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
25. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
26. Camino Winds by John Grisham
27. The Concrete Blond by Michael Connelly
28. The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly
29. The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben
30. Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
31. Delicious! by Ruth Reichl
32. Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
33. My Kitchen Year by Ruth Reichl
34. Not Becoming My Mother by Ruth Reichl
35. Savage Feast by Boris Fishman
36. Plenty by Alisa Smith and JB MacKinnon
37. Trunk Music by Michael Connelly
38. Eat Here by Brian Halweil
39. Growing Tomorrow by Forrest Pritchard
40. The Poet by Michael Connelly
41. Local by Douglas Gayeton
42. Blood Work by Michael Connelly
43. Angels Flight by by Michael Connelly
44. Slow Food Nation by Carlo Petrini
45. A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly
46. Gaining Ground by Forrest Pritchard
47. Void Moon by Michael Connelly
48. City of Bones by Michael Connelly
49. Waging Peace by Diana Oestreich
50. Chasing the Dime by Michael Connelly
51. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
52. Earth by David Brin
53. Each Step is the Journey by Patricia Klinck
54. Hippie by Paulo Coelho
55. The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball
56. Food from the Radical Center by Gary Nabhan