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2020 Summary -

Total books = approx 265 = Lifetime Record!!!!

PBT Monthly tags = 12 months, and ____ Books. My favorites were...

PBT Flurries = 3 months, and ___ books. My favorites were ...

BLM = ___ books....

Poll Ballot challenge = read 232 books for the challenge, for 31.77 points. (.13 points per book. nuff said.)

BIngo Challenge = one Bingo, 12 books posted to date, 1 more to post, 1 more to read. 5 points.

Around the Year in 52 weeks (started late) = Read books from 51 prompts, plus __ extra prompts

Around the World in 80 books (started late)= read books from 19 different countries so far, with possibly more pending.

Miscellaneous general goals/intentions.
Read more non-fiction on diverse topics, including psychology, science, org behavior, diversity, and current issues.
Read a broad range of genres, including fiction books with diversity topics and authors of color, and literary fiction.

Highlights - Emerging/growing interests: Science fiction and space, Black Lives Matter, and the Big data manipulation of the 2016 presidential and Brexit votes.

International Reading

47 books books from countries other than the US
19 countries total
5 Different Continents
8 European countries
6 Asian countries
1 African country
1 Oceana (Australia)
3 North America
0 South America
0 Antarctica

I read 47 books so far this year from countries other than the US. They were from 19 different countries, in every continent except South America and Antarctica. I have one South American book that I might read next week.



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2020 Favorites

This was a heavy reading year for me, so I read more good books than ever. (I also read more bad books than ever.)

#1 Dear Edward - Napolitano
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers Series) - Becky Chambers
Still Alice - Genova
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Fowler
Law of Moses - Harmon
Adulthood rites (Xenogenesis series) -Butler
The Lager Queen of Minnesota - Stradal
Nothing More Dangerous - Eskins
The Rosie Project - Simsion
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Richardson
Lab Girl - Jahren
An American Marriage - Jones
Station Eleven - Mandel
News of the World -Jiles
Dark Matter
Big Lies in a Small Town
Nickel Boys - Whitehead
This Tender Land - Krueger
Case Histories - Atkinson
Exhalations Stories - Chiang
Dark Matter
Just Mercy
A Different Blue- Harmon
All the Bright Places
Kite Runner
The Secret Garden
A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Wayfarers)
Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers)
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
The Weight of a Moment
Giver of Stars
Sins in Blue
Get a Life Chloe Brown
Unhoneymooners
The Notebook
SERIES
Wayfarers series
Binti Series
Xenogenesis Series (Dawn, Imago, Adulthood Rites)
Girl without a Name Series
Magic Lessons, Practical Magic
Shipping News
Lightkeeper's Daughter
Ask Again, Yes

Non-Fiction Favorites:
She Said -Kantor
Just Mercy - Stevenson
Lab Girl - Jahren
Death and Life of the Great Lakes -Egan
How to be an Anti-racist - Kendi
Too Much and Never Enough - Trump
Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica whistleblower - Kaiser
Code Girls - Mundy
The Ride of a Lifetime - Iger
Bottle of Lies - Eban
Notorious RBG

5 Star Re-Reads:
Where the Crawdads Sing
Language of Flowers
The Art of Racing in the Rain
A Little Princess
Harry Potter,... Azkaban

States read in 2020


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TAGS
January - Thrillers -14
February - Survival -16
March - Journalism - 10
April - Science Fiction - 12
May - Comedy -18
June - Suspense -18
July - Southern - 16
July bonus - Black Lives Matter - 7
August - Witches, 17
September - Psychological -26
October -Animals -20+
November - Book to screen - 7
December - International -

October Flurries - 14
November Flurries - 3
December Flurries - 3 - will be 4

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