It's the end of 2020 and time to look back on my reading year, evaluate the goals set for this year and set new goals for 2021. Of course, the big story of 2020 is the pandemic. We've basically been locked down since February as we've been very diligent about only going out when it's a necessity. That means much more time at home and much more reading time. I've read 175 books this year which is definitely an adult high mark. I tend to read in the genres of mystery, literary fiction, science fiction/fantasy and nonfiction. This year I read fifty-eight mysteries, legal fictions and thrillers, seventy-five literary fictions, twenty-one science fiction/fantasies and twenty nonfictions and anthologies. Here's the best of what I read in each category:
Mystery
- Blindsighted, Karin Slaughter
- Just One Evil Act, Elizabeth George
- Miracle Creek, Angie Kim
- The Shadows, Alex North
- Breakdown, Jonathan Kellerman
- Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo
- Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
- The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
- A Brief History Of Seven Killings, Marlon James
- Ten Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World, Elif Shafak
- Bring Up The Bodies, Hilary Mantel
- The Overstory, Richard Powers
- The Sport Of Kings, C.E. Morgan
- Wheel Of Time series novels, Robert Jordan
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, Hank Green
- War For The Oaks, Emma Bull
- The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
- This Is How You Lose The Time War, Amal El-Motar/Max Gladstone
- Underland, Robert MacFarland
- Age Of Wonder, Richard Holmes
- Pilgrim At Tinker's Creek, Annie Dillard
- The Black Count, Tom Reiss
- Lions Of The West, Robert Morgan
- Read 120 books.
- Finish the Wheel Of Time series
- Catch up on Jonathan Kellerman, John Sandford and Michael Connelly series.
- Read three classics
- Read at last ten of the Booker and Woman's Prize nominees
- Continue to read from my shelves and give away what I've read