My Favorite Books of 2020

The best books to fill out your reading list for 2021

This year, I was able to read 80 books (five more than last year), so 2020’s list of favorite books has an even greater sample size from which to choose. (One of these days I will be able to reach the elusive “100”.) As usual, this is a collection of the best books I read in 2020, not the best of those published in 2020. That qualification is especially important this time, as half of my top ten were not published this year.

As usual, nonfiction makes up the entirety of my list (I didn’t read any great fiction this year, as good of a story as Max Brooks’ Devolution was). So let’s start with the honorable mentions. Raleigh Sadler’s Vulnerable: Rethinking Human Trafficking was a perfect late addition to my 2020 reading plan and delves deep into the Christian motivation to protect the vulnerable and fight human trafficking along with giving terrific practical advice on what you can do where you are. Jemar Tisby’s The Color of Compromise is one of the audiobooks that completely caught me off guard this year (I don’t write full reviews of audiobooks because it would be very difficult), as Tisby relays an in-depth history into how the church has been complicit in racism throughout the American experience. It’s a rough one, but Tisby’s love for the church shines through even as he lays out…