I did an awful lot of reading in 2020. Nearly a book a week, and I even wrote reviews for some of them! These are the books I enjoyed the most in 2020, not books that came out this year, with a ranking based on how I feel about them as I read them.
This book was just really comfortable. It was a slice of life story looking at a life that I had no idea about, with interesting worldbuilding and left me feeling like I’d just been hanging out with an old friend catching up. Which, well, hopefully we’ll get to do this year.
I’ve been wanting to get more financially literate and I’m not sure that this book did anything like that. What it did do was help to contextualize some of my interactions with money in a way that didn’t hit me until a month or two after reading it. And honestly, it was well worth the read.
There’s good reason why this book became an NYT bestseller! I had a lot of fun with the book and the characters, as well as the perspectives that the book brought out. In case you were wondering, it’s definitely worth the hype.
This might just be my history with comics, the fact that I’ve written a book set in a superhero universe, or the fact that next year’s series is also about villains, but this one just scratched an itch I’ve been having for a while. Doesn’t hurt that I also found it fantastic.
Canadian content! I made the effort this year and I found something pretty fun in a story about a Native American teen being harassed by Coyote and uncovering secrets to a small town that he can never quite escape. I am absolutely planning to pick up the rest of the series in the new year.
I loved this book and the focus on how each of the girls was dealing with the madness of what was going on around them. It’s filled with things like understandable misunderstandings, people actually talking to one another to clear things up, and murder. Of all the books that might have sequels, this is the one that I most want a sequel to.
1. This is How you Lose the Time War
I don’t like romance, I’m iffy on time travel, and I’m very skeptical about poetic writing in general, but this book was amazing. It had the largest impact on me this year, and I’m so glad it was mentioned in that UX conference.
Did I miss any books you loved? Let me know so I can add them to my list for this year!