Clare L. Deming

With all of the craziness of this year, I haven’t had time to keep up with my book reviews. However, I did want to at least post a year-end summary because I did get a lot of reading done – not as much as I would have liked, but still more than I have done in other years.

Here is my summary graphic taken from Goodreads:

That’s a total of 39 books, which is a bit short of my goal of 50, and down a little from 43 in 2019. Breaking the books down into genre and categories, here are some statistics (some overlap):

• Non-fiction = 6
• Classics = 1
• Science fiction = 19
• Fantasy = 13
• Graphic novels = 1
• Mainstream = 1
• Romance = 3
• Novellas = 2

Favorite books of 2020 (links help support this blog):

• Circe by Madeline Miller
• Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
• Peace Talks/Battleground by Jim Butcher
• Extreme Medicine by Kevin Fong
• City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert

Least favorite books of 2020:

• The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
• The Last Human by Zack Jordan
• Master of Sorrows by Justin Call
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Coming soon – books I’m hoping to read in 2021!