Books read in 2020

• Total books read during this year: 22
• Total books that I started to read but didn't finish: 2
  
• physical books read: 22
• ebooks read: 0
• physical books started but unfinished: 2
• ebooks started but unfinished: 0
• Library books read: 1
• Library books started but unread: 0
• Books I liked: 13
• Books I loved: 4
• Books I hated: 0
  
• Books I disliked or found meh: 2
• Books I felt strongly about but can't classify as love or hate: 3
  
• Books given away: I put at least 1 book in a Free Little Library but I can't remember how many
  
• #1 most loved book this year: Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Lavery
  
• #1 most hated book this year: tie between The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald and Love Saves the Day by Gwen Cooper. They just made me so angry!
  

I keep reading fewer and fewer books each year, but at least for this one I had a pandemic I could pin the blame on. I no longer had four-hour blocks where I sat at a desk in the library and waited for people to come to me, so I read less. When you're doing virtual reference on a computer, you might as well just be on social media as well. Plus there was that whole people dying needlessly at the hands of a hateful and incompetent political regime thing, which was a tad stressful. A lot of people on the internet were reading a lot less as well, while some were reading more, so ymmv. I've completely moved away from ebooks in the last couple of years, and tried to read mostly from my TBR books or new purchases. Fewer library books because I was mostly at home and not trawling the stacks at work. I visited hardly any thrift stores, but I did buy a bunch of books from Barnes & Noble (I know, I know, but they were 50% off or more) and independent bookstores. I also asked for books for my birthday and Christmas, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  oh well! I will probably always have more 'in' books than 'out' books.

Once again, an enormous shoutout to Book Riot and their reading spreadsheet. It has truly changed the game for me. Here's their 2021 reading log spreadsheet. 

Here are some of my pie charts of my reading stats.

Love seeing the variety of genres I've read.

 

"Other" refers to group authors or no author given.

Gains in the queer authors/protagonists sector, I think (I don't believe that info was collected in the 2019 spreadsheet), while I clearly still need to do better with reading authors and characters of color.