2020 in Books

What a year. I really don't need to say more than that, do I, except that early in the pandemic, I had trouble reading. But after a couple of weeks, my reading mojo came back with a vengeance. I ended up finishing 153 books this year, a personal best. I also completed my year-long goal of reading all of Virginia Woolf's novels in order of publication, which did turn out to be a worthwhile project.

Here are my stats for the year:

Fiction: 74
Nonfiction: 40
YA/children's: 15
Poetry: 16
Classics: 28
Rereads: 19
Female authors (as far as I know in terms of self-identification):  64
Male authors (as far as I know in terms of self-identification): 49

And in no particular order, my faves from the year.

Evidence of V
Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life
The Only Plane in the Sky
Abigail
Kyrie
Clap When You Land
Nothing to See Here
Orlando
The Maytrees
A Children's Bible
Hamnet
Writers & Lovers
The Vanishing Half
The Equivalents
Before the Ever After
Such a Fun Age
Leave the World Behind
The Butterfly Lampshade
Red Comet
Transcendent Kingdom

A terrible year on many fronts, but I'll take the consolation of so many good reads.