So since the new year has started I thought it would be a good time to look back at my 2020 TBR and my reading goals!
So let’s start with my 2020 TBR:
- The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan – Read it, and also read it’s sequel!
- Elantris by Brandon Sanderson – Read it, and loved it!
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin – Haven’t read this.. (Spoiler alert, it is also on this year’s TBR haah)
- Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky – Haven’t read it.. But I have gotten an other book by him, so I will soon know if I like his work! (hopefully haha)
- Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames – Read it and loved it, I hope to read the sequel soon!
- The Secret History by Donna Tart – Didn’t read, and another one that is on this year’s TBR haha, I just still really want to read it!
- The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch – Didn’t read, but still want to!
- An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir – Read and loved the whole series!
- Circe by Madeline Miller – Didn’t read, but also I have lost my interest in this one!
- The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty – Read and absolutely loved the whole trilogy!
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath – I enjoyed this one so much more then I had expected!
Read: 6/11; on 2021 TBR: 2/11; No longer interested: 1/11.
I would say I did pretty well!
And now let’s look at the reading goals I set at the start of the year!
- Read 200 books – Surpassed this by reading 270 books!
- Read 12 classics – Didn’t do this, read 8/12!
- Resd 5 non-fiction – Did this! Read exactly 5! But honestly I only managed this because I did my GoodReads Reading challenge. I hope to do better next year haha!
- Finish 10 series (that I started before 2020) – Okay this was had to count but I think I finished 15 series that I started before 2020! More if I counted series that I started and finished this year 🙂
- Read 30 2020 releases – Surpassed this by A LOT! I managed to read 98 2020 releases!
- Read 30 ‘backlist’ books (pre-2017) – Definitely passed this one as well! If I counted correctly I read 51 books released before 2017 (that I did not count as a classic!)
Okay I did really well! Obviously I did not know what to expect from this reading year at the start of 2020 haha!
You did really well with your TBR pile overall, and wow, all those books! I’m always so impressed with your reading, Evelyn. 🙂
Thanks 🙂
Wow, you did amazingly well on these! The only goals I actually consciously set for myself last year was my goodreads challenge of 100 books and reading all of Shakespeare’s works, and I did both of those things, so I guess that counts as a success 😀 I do actually want to set a few more concrete goals this year!
Oh wow reading everything by Shakespeare! Well done on that!
Hi Evelyn! New follower here 🙂 Congrats on your reading goals, I’m so impressed by how much you read in 2020! The Secret History and The Lies of Locke Lamora have also been on my TBR for a while and I’ve been meaning to get to them, hopefully I will in 2021 haha.
Hi Michelle! Thanks for the follow 🙂
I hope we both get to those in 2021! And hopefully we both enjoy!
Wow! You did so well on your goals! Congratulations!
Thanks 🙂
Wow 270 books!! I am in awe of you That is so amazing. You did so well on your goals, too. That is also amazing! I have not read The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, but I have read a little bit of The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. I will have to check out the bell jar!
Definitely recommend!