2020 reading in review.

For 2020, I set a goal to read 50 books. When I was setting this goal back in early January last year, I thought it was totally doable. But as we all know, 2020 did not turn out like anyone thought it would. I had a lot of trouble sitting down to read – I’m not sure why. Maybe my mind was already busy and preoccupied with thinking of other things. As a result, I didn’t read as many books as I had hoped to. Still, I managed to read 47 books in 2020.

Here’s how I did in 2020:

Number of books read: 47
This averages out to just under one book read per week.

Number of pages read: 16,540
Averages out to approximately 318 pages read a week.

Longest book:
The Winter Sea at 544 pages.

Shortest book:
Knit Tight at 112 pages.

Average Book Length:
351 pages

According to Goodreads, my average rating was 3.4 stars. This is just a bit higher than my average rating from last year, 3.2. I tend to rate most books around 3 or so (or as Goodreads likes to say “It was good”).

Books by genre:
Fiction – 45
Nonfiction – 2

Books read for book club – 0
My book club was supposed to meet in March, but we had to cancel due to the pandemic (and I never read the book). Unfortunately, we were unable to schedule a virtual meetup so I haven’t seen my book club ladies in over a year! Hopefully, we can start meeting again this year.

Books by acquisition type:
19 books were borrowed from the library
10 books were from my bookshelves
2 books were borrowed from friends
16 books were purchased this year

I had hoped to read some of the books that I have sitting in my bookcases waiting to be read. I got through some of them but I did buy a number of books this year to help out local bookstores during the pandemic.

Books by format:
Paperback – 17
Hardback – 6
Ebooks – 24

Here’s hoping my passion for reading finds me again in 2021!!