2020 Master List

Well! As is an annual tradition at this point, I am here to announce that I did not read all of the books on my list last year. I did in fact read 49 books, which is more than the 41 I had read in 2018, and in general my reading habits reflect good things about how I'm doing: I'm able to focus well enough to read almost a book a week, on average, and I'm interested enough in narratives and histories and people to want to read in the first place. And since I started 2019 with 77 books on my To Read list, that must mean I'm starting 2020 with a goal of reading 28 books, right?

...there are slightly more books on my list than that. Almost a hundred. And the list by the end of the year will be closer to 160, since I add three books a month to my list without trying as a result of various book clubs. So yeah, I'm starting out at 125 /o\ But that's actually \o/ because I love reading, and I love that there are so many books out there I want to read, and I also love having a goal, even if it's one I have repeatedly failed to meet. There are about 35 books on this list that have been on my To Read list since at least 2016, the year I started this whole book blog, and I would really really love to actually get those read!!! It's been hard for me to actually tackle the backlog, though, in large part because this past year I also started really using the library hold system, which is an incredible enabler. I constantly have too many books checked out at any given time, as well as too many books on hold, but I also don't seem to be STOPPING, so oh well. I'm not really looking at changing this plan anytime soon, especially since this year I will need distractions badly for unknown reasons that I'm not going to dwell on here. 

I am also, for the first time in about five years, full swing in the throes of a major fandom passion, and I'm also playing a game on my Switch that demands a lot of time and attention, and I'm doing some traveling and will also be volunteering quite a bit as the year goes on, so like! Will I achieve my reading goal this year??? Probably not! But I am gonna give it my best shot, because what the fuck else am I gonna do.  

END OF YEAR UPDATE:

Well, I did not end up reading 125 books in 2020! But I DID read 84, which, given everything that 2020 was, I think is pretty impressive! I have carried over just about a hundred books to start off 2021 with, and we'll see how that goes. The list below is all of the books I did in fact read this year.

1. The From-Aways
2. Find Me
3. The Queen of Nothing
4. Spin the Dawn
5. The Plantagenets
6. The Binding
7. The Personality Brokers
8. Family of Origin
9. Fleishman is in Trouble
10. Empress of Forever
11. The Great Believers
12. The Charioteer
13. The Deep
14. Know My Name
15. How We Fight For Our Lives
16. Foursome
17. The Beautiful
18. A Heart So Fierce and Broken
19. A Curse So Dark and Lonely
20. The Body
21. Me
22. Thick
23. A Single Thread
24. Lovely War
25. The Handmaid’s Tale
26. Ayesha at Last
27. Bringing Down the Duke
28. A Prince on Paper
29. The Right Swipe
30. Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
31. The Tethered Mage
32. Mrs. Everything
33. The Sea Queen
34. The Golden Wolf
35. The Thief 
36. The Queen of Attolia
37. The King of Attolia
38. A Conspiracy of Kings
39. Thick as Thieves
40. Shadow and Bone 
41. Siege and Storm
42. Ruin and Rising
43. The Story of a New Name
44. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
45. The Story of the Lost Child
46. Drive
47. The Only Harmless Great Thing
48. A Duke in Disguise
49. The Body Keeps the Score
50. Mirrorstrike
51. Gilded Cage
52. A Christmas Gone Perfectly Wrong
53. Catfishing on Catnet
54. Long Bright River
55. The Splendid and the Vile
56. Exhalation
57. The Kingdom of Back
58. The City We Became
59. My Dark Vanessa
60. Killing Gravity
61. The Talented Mr. Ripley
62. Nevertheless She Persisted
63. Artificial Condition
64. Network Effect
65. Exit Strategy
66. Rogue Protocol
67. Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders
68. Two Rogues Make a Right
69. A Taste of Honey
70. Upright Women Wanted
71. The Empress of Salt and Fortune
72. Riot Baby
73. You Should See Me in a Crown
74. Cinderella is Dead
75. Slippery Creatures
76. The Sugared Game
77. The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water
78. We Are Okay
79. The Haunting of Tram Car 015
80. The Christmas Deal
81. Better Not Pout
82. Mr. Right Now
83. A Christmas Reunion
84. A Fortunate Blizzard