2020 Year-In-Review: Books I Read
Jan. 1st, 2021 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroThis year was a weird year for most of my media consumption (along with, y’know, everything else). I only have 28 books read and logged for the year, with 5 of them being graphic novels. So that’s 23 prose books, a poor showing compared to other years. Between the complete upending of routine, being slowed down by eye surgery, and generally having limited ability to focus on long-form prose, this wasn’t a big year for reading books.
By type: 10 Kindle books, 3 other ebooks, 15 physical books.
This year also saw a different mix from some others: There was a fair amount of fantasy and modern horror/fantasy and a lot of memoir-style nonfiction, with only a few sci-fi books. The authors list was pretty varied, as the winner was three Seanan McGuire books, followed by two John Scalzi, two Robin Sloan, and two Avatar graphic novels by Gene Luen Yang.
Recommended standouts of the year included: Seanan McGuire’s Middlegame, both of Robin Sloan’s books (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough), John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire and Mike Carey’s Fellside.
For that matter, Allie Brosh’s Solutions and Other Problems is hilarious and disturbing, and the Avatar graphic novels (The Search and The Promise) are fun though not as good as the original show.
I cleared a bunch of my older backlog of books in a cull, and I do have a bunch of new ones I’m interested in now. I’m hoping 2021 will allow me somewhat more focus.
By type: 10 Kindle books, 3 other ebooks, 15 physical books.
This year also saw a different mix from some others: There was a fair amount of fantasy and modern horror/fantasy and a lot of memoir-style nonfiction, with only a few sci-fi books. The authors list was pretty varied, as the winner was three Seanan McGuire books, followed by two John Scalzi, two Robin Sloan, and two Avatar graphic novels by Gene Luen Yang.
Recommended standouts of the year included: Seanan McGuire’s Middlegame, both of Robin Sloan’s books (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough), John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire and Mike Carey’s Fellside.
For that matter, Allie Brosh’s Solutions and Other Problems is hilarious and disturbing, and the Avatar graphic novels (The Search and The Promise) are fun though not as good as the original show.
I cleared a bunch of my older backlog of books in a cull, and I do have a bunch of new ones I’m interested in now. I’m hoping 2021 will allow me somewhat more focus.
