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2020 Reading Goals: Wrap-Up

So it’s a bit late, but here is my wrap-up for my 2020 reading goals:

GOAL #1: READ 50 BOOKS

Unfortunately I didn’t achieve this goal, but I did make it to 40 books, 2 more than I read in 2019. Although I spent nearly five months of the year furloughed due to the pandemic, I found it really hard to motivate myself to read anything during lockdown. I was lucky to finish two books a month. Strangely, it was only when I went back to work in July when I started to read a lot again. I don’t mind that I haven’t achieved this goal though, 50 was an ambitious target, and I still read more than last year.

GOAL #2: READ MORE HISTORICAL FICTION

2020 hf

In the end I read four historical fiction novels:

  • Beloved – Toni Morrison
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
  • The Confessions of Frannie Langton – Sara Collins
  • The Rules of Magic – Alice Hoffman

It wasn’t quite as many as I was hoping, but did I read one more than I did last year.

GOAL #3: PRIORITISE BOOKS I ALREADY OWN

Books I read that I already owned before 2020: 13/40

Library/borrowed books: 18/40

New books: 9/40

I’m quite pleased with how I did with this goal. Although I ended up reading more library books than anything else – I started a new job as a library assistant early on in the year and took advantage of my much more frequent access to the books there – I still read more books from my own shelf rather than buying new books. I definitely want to continue this goal going into 2021.

GOAL #4: READ MORE SEQUELS

2020 sequels

These were the sequels I read in 2020:

  • The Calling – David Gaider (Dragon Age #2)
  • Lyra’s Oxford – Phillip Pullman (His Dark Materials #3.5)
  • The Obelisk Gate – N.K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth Trilogy #2)
  • The Stone Sky – N.K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth Trilogy #3)
  • Siege and Storm – Leigh Bardugo (Shadow and Bone, #2)
  • Ruin and Rising – Leigh Bardugo (Shadow and Bone #3)
  • The Deck of Omens – Christine Lynn Herman (The Devouring Gray #2)
  • The Rules of Magic – Alice Hoffman (Practical Magic #0.5, a prequel, but I still think it counts since I read book one first)
  • A Closed and Common Orbit – Becky Chambers (Wayfarers #2)
  • Starsight – Brandon Sanderson (Skyward #2)

10/40 books read were sequels, not as many as in 2019, but I’m still happy with how many I read.

GOAL #5: COMPLETE A SERIES

I completed three series from start to finish this year:

  • Broken Earth trilogy – N.K. Jemisin
  • Shadow and Bone trilogy – Leigh Bardugo
  • The Devouring Gray duology – Christine Lynn Herman

I’m really glad I decided to finish these series – I needed to read The Broken Earth trilogy without large gaps between the books as I would have been completely lost with the vast amount of lore in the series that I probably would’ve forgotten if I left it too long. I was also really on the fence about finishing the Shadow and Bone trilogy as I didn’t particularly enjoy the first book, which I read in 2019, but I ended up loving the last two books. I also read The Devouring Gray duology one after the other and they flowed really nicely together, so it was like reading one really long novel.

How did you do with your reading goals for 2020?