Last Year In Books.

Alright, we’re already into 2021 and I have yet to list out the remainder of books I completed in 2020. With working from home, I did find that, without such a long commute to work, my listening to audiobooks slowed down for a time.

I did manage to periodically post last year so that I would not have to have one singular post for all of the books I managed to get through in a year. After finishing 52 books in 2019 (surpassing my goal of 50), I decided to try for a goal of 52 in 2020 (and I managed to hit 53!).

Let’s do a quick recap of the books I didn’t cover in previous posts:

  • August 2020:
    • The Illness Lesson by Clare Beams
    • Normal People by Sally Rooney
  • September 2020:
    • The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
    • Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
    • The Upside of Being Down: How Mental Health Struggles Led to My Greatest Successes in Work and Life by Jen Gotch
    • In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
    • Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
    • And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie: I had already begun reading Death on the Nile by Christie when the Halloween/October book for my book club was chosen. We had quite a lively discussion about this book and all the underlying meanings and revelations.
    • The Guest List by Lucy Foley
  • November 2020:
    • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke: what visuals! As I was reading this book, I could see everything so clearly in my mind; beautifully done.
    • The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
    • The Midnight Library by Matt Haig: this was such an interesting take on the whole idea of the “what if…?” situations of your life. Endless possibilities make you wonder if you really appreciate all that your decisions and life have led you up to at this point of your life.
    • One By One by Ruth Ware
  • December 2020:
    • White Ivy by Susie Yang
    • The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
    • Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (Translator): A wonderful idea of having the ability to time travel (with restrictions/rules) with a specific and sentimental reasoning. You just need to do it all as the title says “Before the Coffee Gets Cold.”
    • Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
    • Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield: This was a tale that wound as much as a river can. It really opened up the opportunity for a mythological type story with imagination if you would like to disappear into another world with its own legends.
    • Monogamy by Sue Miller
    • The Paris Hours by Alex George

That rounds out 2020! I told myself at the beginning of 2021 to perhaps lessen my reading goal and utilize that additional time I’d gain to start drawing or sewing again. With that being said, we are only a month and a half into the year and I’ve already completed/finally finished 16 books! Mind you, I also decided this year to finally go through and finish up the 30+ books listed in my Goodreads “Currently Reading” list. Let the reading continue!