We Love Lists: Books We Meant to Read in 2020

Every year when we’re making our lists for the Best of Whatever, we’re forced to confront the ones that might have been. These are the books that could have been on our Best of 2020 lists if only we’d actually read them. We’ll be sure to add them to our 2021 TBRs.

Gretl 

Smoke Bitten by Patricia Briggs

Daring and the Duke by Sarah Maclean

Ill Wind by Rachel Caine

 

American Demon by Kim Harrison

Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

Rose Red

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk

The Brown Sisters by Talia Hibbert

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

The Boyfriend Project by Farah Rochon

 

Bonds of Brass by Emily Skrutskie

The Worst of all Possible Worlds by Alex White

The Lost Book of the White by Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu

Daring and the Duke by Sarah MacLean

The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune

 

What books did you mean to read this year?

 

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We Love Lists: Top 10 Books by Authors New to Us in 2020

 

One of the fun things about end of the year lists is discovering new authors when you read everyone else’s list, so we wanted to make sure to include New-to-Me Authors in our Best of 2020 posts. We’re doing some “new math” in order to call these top 10 lists, but there are still 20 books in this post.

Gretl

Naked in Death by JD Robb

Tikka Chance on Me by Suleika Snyder

The Ultimate Pi Day Party by Jackie Lau

Moti on the Water by Leyla Attar

In Her Sights by Katie Ruggle

Spiked CP Rider

Oath Sworn by Kristen Banet

Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

Rose Red

The Beacon Hill Sorcerer Series by S.J. Himes

 

The Soulbound Series by Hailey Turner

 

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

 

The Marchesi Family Series by Silvia Violet

The A.I. Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole

 

The Chosen Universe Series by Macy Blake

 

The Cold Hard Cash Series by K.L. Hiers 

 

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade

 

Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur 

Something To Talk About by Meryl Wilsner

What authors did you discover this year?

 

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Top 10 of 2020: Books We Want in 2021

Top 10 of 2020 is a week-long "Best of" link up hosted by Books of My Heart. Check out their blog for links to all the participant posts.

Today's topic is Books We Want in 2021.

We each made our own top 10 lists for this one (or in Rose Red's case top 12). There's so many awesome books coming out this next year and we're excited to get our hands on all of them.

Gretl’s list

Blood Heir by Ilona Andrews

Jan 12

Big Bad Wolf by Suleika Snyder 

Jan 28

Faithless in Death by JD Robb

Feb 9

First Comes Like by Alisha Rai

Feb 16

Witchshadow by Susan Dennard

Feb 16

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

Mar 9

The Jaguar Knight by Ann Aguirre 

Apr 22

A Wolf in Duke’s Clothing by Susanna Allen

Apr 27

Last Guard by Nalini Singh

July 20

Witch Please by Ann Aguirre 

Sept 7

 

Rose Red's List

Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell

February 2

 

Soulstar by C.L. Polk

February 16

 

An Echo in the Sorrow by Hailey Turner

March 1

 

Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs 

March 16

Love Springs Eternal by S.J. Himes

Spring 2021

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

April 27

 

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

June 1

 

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

July 6 

 

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

 July 13

 

Last Guard by Nalini Singh

July 20 

 

Hold Fast Through the Fire by K.B Wagers

July 27

 

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

Sept 21

 

What books are you looking forward to getting your hands on in 2021?

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