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This year has been a bit of an odd reading year. On one hand I've read some books I've absolutely entirely fallen in love with whilst at the same time I've read a few books (and am still reading now) that are of average length but have taken me what felt like an age to read (Children of Time). I also read 10% of a book (The Stone Man) this year and hated so much that I stop there but still had to leave myself a review. I did manage 7,559 pages of 23 books (I'm excluding the 10% book… ).
My absolute favourite this year (and goes straight into my most favourite books of all time) was The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers - this is the first book, that I can remember, that has made me laugh (multiple times) out loud(!) and cry.
Instead of my usual listing of all the reviews, since I now publish all my reviews directly on this web site, instead I've included some statistical breakdown of the books I've read.
Longest book: Children of Time (Children of Time #1) - 609 pages
Shortest book: All My Friends Are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman - 54 pages
Quickest read: 4 days
- In the Dark (DI Adam Fawley, #2) by Cara Hunter (444 pages)
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes - (228 pages)
Longest read/slog: 54 days
- Children of Time (Children of Time #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky (609 pages)
Diversity of authors:
- Women: 8 - 6 of the books I read in 2020 we written by the same two authors (still counted as unique authors)
- Men: 11
Those who were not white authors, I believe there was only one to my discredit. Frustratingly some of my favourite authors are women and non-white women, so I really must do better to find more books from this background.
On that note, the majority of the books I read this year were from the 2010s era, though I also know this is related to two of my favourite authors this year publishing their books during this period: Becky Chambers and Cara Hunter. Though I do enjoy the classics (understandably as they've lasted the test of time).
Rated books
5 stars
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - 519 pages
- The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2) - 401 pages
4 stars
- Flowers for Algernon - 228 pages
- In the Dark (DI Adam Fawley, #2) - 444 pages
- The Princess Diarist - 273 pages
- The Little Prince - 96 pages
- Close to Home (DI Adam Fawley, #1) - 385 pages
- Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) - 346 pages
- Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner - 248 pages
- And Then There Were None - 258 pages
- All the Rage - 444 pages
- Stardust - 274 pages
- A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers #2) - 385 pages
- Record of a Spaceborn Few - 368 pages
- Last Christmas - 256 pages
Books by decade
1930
1939: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
1940
1943: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1960
1963: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
1966: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
1967: The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
1980
1982: Spectrum Machine Language for the Absolute Beginner by William Tang
1990
1997: Stardust by Gaiman, Neil
2010
2012: The Stone Man by Luke Smitherd
2012: Speccy Nation by Dan Whitehead
2013: The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) by Robert Galbraith
2014: All My Friends Are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman
2015: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
2015: Children of Time (Children of Time #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
2016: A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers #2) by Becky Chambers
2016: The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
2018: Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
2018: Close to Home (DI Adam Fawley, #1) by Cara Hunter
2019: Last Christmas by Greg Wise
2019: All the Rage by Cara Hunter
2019: In the Dark (DI Adam Fawley, #2) by Cara Hunter
2019: Exhalation by Ted Chiang
2019: The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2) by Margaret Atwood
2020
2020: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
2020: Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) by Martha Wells
Originally published on Remy Sharp's b:log
This content originally appeared on remy sharp's b:log and was authored by remy sharp's b:log
remy sharp's b:log | Sciencx (2021-01-01T00:00:00+00:00) Books I read in 2020 [blog]. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2021/01/01/books-i-read-in-2020-blog/
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