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After reading 37 books in 2019, I set myself what I thought was a comfortable goal of reading 24 books in 2020. Unfortunately, I didn’t reach my goal as I usually read during my commute, and I’ve been working from home since March. I ended up reading 13 books, which is not bad considering what a year it has been:

• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie ★★★★☆
• Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty ★★★☆☆
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates ★★★★★
• Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang ★★★★☆
• The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler ★★★☆☆
• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells ★★★☆☆
• The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton ★★★☆☆
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells ★★★★☆
• The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal by Clint McElroy ★★★★★
• Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik ★★★★☆
• Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke ★★★★☆
• I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi ★★★☆☆
• What If? by Randall Munroe ★★★★☆

These were my highlights:

• Favorite fiction book: The Adventure Zone: Petals to the Metal by Clint McElroy
• Favorite non-fiction book: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Most thought-provoking book: Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
• Least favorite book: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty

If you want to see what I’m reading throughout the year then you can follow me on Goodreads.

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