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Books I Read In 2020

Sunday, January 10, 2021

Find here the full list of books I read in 2020, along with a few random observations and pivot tables.


First here is my rough ranking system (something new I tried this year):

Ratings:
1Really BadHated it
2Not GoodDid not like it
3GoodLiked it
4Really GoodReally liked it
5ExceptionalLOVED IT

Breakdown by genre:

GenreCOUNT
Comics8
Crime8
Crime Fiction1
Crime/Thriller2
Fantasy7
Legal Thriller2
Literary Fiction12
Non-Fiction26
Science Fiction10
Science-Fiction3
Spy Triller1
Thriller4
YA Fiction1
Grand Total85


Breakdown by how I read whatever it was:

Type
COUNT
Cloud Library26
Hardcover15


Kindle11
Paperback33


Grand Total85

Breakdown by ratings:

Rating
COUNT
21
319
449
516
Grand Total85

Basically I like most of what I read. I guess I'm pretty lenient?

Breakdown by the publishing year:

Published
COUNT
19321
19951
19961
19991
20011
20031
20062
20071
20082
20092
20102
20119
20124
20141
20152
20166
20171
20184
201913
202030
Grand Total85


And finally here is the list of the books I read in the order I finished them:
RatingTitleDate FinishedPublishedPagesGenreType
3Miracle Creek by Anie Kim1/19/20202019369ThrillerCloud Library
4How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen1/21/20202012300Non-FictionHardcover
4The Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow1/26/20202008303CrimePaperback
4The Gentleman's Hour by Don Winslow1/27/20202009338CrimePaperback
4The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow1/30/20202006303CrimePaperback
3The Bloomsday Dead by Adrian McKinty2/3/20202006289CrimePaperback
3Breathing Underwater by Richard Rohr2/5/20202011128Non-FictionKindle
4Movies (and other things) by Shea Serrano2/10/20202019255Non-FictionHardcover
4California Fire and Life by Don Winslow2/12/20201999337CrimePaperback
3Lost For Words by Edward St, Aubyn2/15/20202014261Literary FictionPaperback
2The Western Wind by Samantha Harvey2/23/20202018294Literary FictionPaperback
4Locke & Key vol. 1 by Joe Hill2/23/20202008158ComicsHardcover
4Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein2/28/20202020272Non-FictionHardcover
4The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin3/1/20202015516Science-FictionKindle
5A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles3/3/20202016462Literary FictionPaperback
3The Little Friend by Donna Tartt3/10/20202011640Literary FictionPaperback
5Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg3/14/20202020275Non-FictionHardcover
4UnTrumping America by Dan Pfeiffer3/19/20202020273Non-FictionHardcover
5Atonement by Ian McEwan3/23/20202001351Literary FictionPaperback
3The Holdout by Graham Moore3/25/20202019271Legal ThrillerCloud Library
3My Husband's Wife by Jane Corry3/29/20202016373ThrillerPaperback
4Unfu*k Yourself by Gary John Bishop3/29/20202016207Non-FictionHardcover
5Satari by Don Winslow4/2/20202011500Spy TrillerPaperback
4The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin4/11/20202016398Science-FictionPaperback
5Broken by Don Winslow4/13/20202020342CrimeKindle
4Crime in Progress by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch4/19/20202019300Non-FictionCloud Library
4Normal People by Sally Rooney4/26/20202018195Literary FictionCloud Library
4The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson5/12/20202011168Non-FictionPaperback
4Locke & Key: Head Games vol. 2 by Joe Hill5/12/20202009144ComicsHardcover
4Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows vol. 3 by Joe Hill5/13/20202010140ComicsPaperback
4Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom vol. 4 by Joe Hill5/14/20202011152ComicsPaperback
4Locke & Key: Clockworks vol. 5 by Joe Hill5/15/20202011160ComicsPaperback
5Locke & Key: Alpha and Omega vol. 6 by Joe Hill5/15/20202012192ComicsPaperback
4The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin5/20/20202020338Science FictionCloud Library
4Open Borders by Bryan Caplan5/21/20202019214ComicsPaperback
4Sex Addiction As Affect Dysregulation by Alexandra Katehakis5/22/20202016386Non-FictionKindle
4The Kings of Cool by Don Winslow5/22/20202012322Crime/ThrillerPaperback
4Let The People Pick The President by Jesse Wegman5/23/20202020265Non-FictionHardcover
3Supernova Era by Cixin Liu5/26/20202003344Science FictionHardcover
3The Oracle Year by Charles Soule5/26/20202018328Science FictionCloud Library
4Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff6/2/20202011245Non-FictionCloud Library
4Clean Hands by Patrick Hoffman6/5/20202020288ThrillerKindle
4Humankind by Rutger Bregman6/12/20202020312Non-FictionCloud Library
4The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel6/22/20202020757Literary FictionHardcover
5Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates6/23/2020201598Non-FictionCloud Library
4Ask For More by Alexandra Carter6/29/20202020200Non-FictionCloud Library
4Entrepreneurial state by Mariana Mazzucato7/4/20202011213Non-FictionPaperback
5How Not To Diet by Michael Greger7/12/20202019571Non-FictionKindle
3The End of October by Lawrence Wright7/20/20202020380ThrillerCloud Library
4Fair Warning by Michael Connelly7/26/20202020306CrimeCloud Library
4Fifty fifty by Steve Cavanagh7/29/20202020350Legal ThrillerPaperback
4Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis8/4/20202020372Science FictionHardcover
3This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone8/7/20202019210Science FictionKindle
5Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Crosby8/11/20202020255CrimeCloud Library
4Dept H by Matt Kindt (issues 1-24, 24 pages each)8/16/20202016576ComicsPaperback
3Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski8/16/20201995352FantasyPaperback
4Cemetery Beach by Warren Ellis (issues 1-7)8/16/20202019140Science FictionPaperback
3Pearl by Brian Michael Bendis (issues 1-2)8/16/2020201940Crime/ThrillerPaperback
5Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan (issues 21-30)8/16/20202019240Science FictionPaperback
5Caste by Isabel Wilkerson8/26/20202020367Non-FictionCloud Library
3Brave New World by Aldous Huxley9/8/20201932259Science FictionPaperback
3Baptism of Fire by Andrzej Sapkowski9/15/20201996352FantasyPaperback
4The Book of M by Peng Shepheri9/23/20202018582Science FictionKindle
4Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum10/7/20202020150Non-FictionCloud Library
4Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi10/10/20202020246Literary FictionCloud Library
4The Way of the Psychonaut vol. 1 by Stanislav Grof10/14/20202019384Non-FictionPaperback
4Breath by James Nestor10/20/20202020292Non-FictionCloud Library
4The Way of the Psychonaut vol. 2 by Stanislav Grof10/24/20202019322Non-FictionPaperback
5The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab10/31/20202020448FantasyCloud Library
4The Book of Not Knowing by Peter Ralston11/5/20202010601Non-FictionKindle
4Piranesi by Susanna Clarke11/7/20202020272FantasyCloud Library
4The Midnight Library by Matt Haig11/10/20202020304FantasyCloud Library
4Anxious People by Fredrik Backman11/16/20202020352Literary FictionCloud Library
3Darth Bane: Paths of Destruction by Drew Karpyshyn11/25/20202007416Science-FictionKindle
3Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam11/29/20202020241Literary FictionHardcover
5Rules of Civility by Amor Towles12/3/20202012368Literary FictionPaperback
5The Order of Time by Carlos Rivelli12/6/20202019256Non-FictionCloud Library
4Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline12/10/20202020381Science FictionCloud Library
5A Promised Land by Barack Obama12/16/20202020845Non-FictionCloud Library
4The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman12/22/20202020359Crime FictionCloud Library
3The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson12/26/20202011276Non-FictionKindle
4Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu12/27/20202020288Literary FictionPaperback
3The Cousins by Karen M. McManus12/29/20202020322YA FictionHardcover
4Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman12/30/20202017148FantasyCloud Library
5A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik1/1/20212020320FantasyHardcover
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