Here’s this year’s list with bold for my particular favorites. This was the most books I’ve read in one year in a while. I did join a book club this year, which expanded the things I read. I read several climate change related books, and some mindless crime drama to escape the horror of the world. I also read a fair amount of nonfiction related to local food and farming as a result of a work project I did on the same topic.

1. Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
2. Lost Light by Michael Connelly
3. The Narrows by Michael Connelly
4. The Closers by Michael Connelly
5. The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
6. The Dayton Book Guys by J. Bradford Tillson Jr.
7. The Ministry of the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
8. The Overstory by Richard Powers
9. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
10. Horizon by Barry Lopez
11. Coming Home to Eat by Gary Nabhan [reread]
12. Climbing the Mango Trees by Madhur Jaffrey
13. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
14. Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
15. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
16. A Peace of My Mind by John Noltner
17. A Full Life in a Small Place by Janice Emily Bowers
18. The Town That Food Saved by Ben Hewitt
19. Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
20. The Way of Peace by James Allen
21. Escape From Kathmandu by Kim Stanley Robinson
22. Dance of the Jakaranda by Peter Kimani
23. Greyhound by Steffan Piper
24. Underground by Mark Rudd
25. Vegetables Unleashed by Jose Andres
26. Eating Wildly by Ava Chin
27. Everything I Want to Do is Illegal by Joel Salatin
28. The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux
29. Reclaiming Our Food by Tanya Denckla Cobb
30. Accidentals by Susan Gaines
31. Win by Harlan Coben
32. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
33. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver [reread]
34. Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert
35. Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams
36. The Quiet Girl by SF Kosa
37. Sooley by John Grisham
38. A Time for Mercy by John Grisham
39. A Moveable Feast edited by Don George
40. We Are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee [reread]
42. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
43. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
44. A Bittersweet Season by Jane Gross
45. Nature’s Best Hope by Douglas Tallamy
46. Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu
47. The Turquoise Ledge by Leslie Marmon Silko
48. The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
49. The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson
50. Kiss the Ground by Josh Tickell
51. Foundation by Isaac Asimov [reread]
52. Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov [reread]
53. Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl
54. Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov [reread]
55. Varina by Charles Frazier
56. The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles
57. Later by Stephen King
58. Miracle Cure by Harlan Coben