2020 on Goodreads

this year will be the year i read a book a week. i started these challenges in 2018 after a long long bookless spell. i had this goal in 2018, before halving it a month in (hey, i started in march). in 2019, i read feast or famine style and went around 6 months without opening a book... this will be the year i read consistently.
manga, graphic novels and comics are counting towards my read count but i may change this later. there are a couple of books on here that i consider “cheating”, so my ideal goal would be around 60-65.

2020:

This was my most pathetic year of reading ever.

I've read 52 books this year, which is honestly impressive considering I work full time and go to school full time. So I'm proud of my 52 books.

However, what we don't talk about is that 25 of those read books were from the same trilogy. We really don't need to discuss this

And 9 of those books I only read because my university classes made me. One was a parenting book. I'm not even a parent.

40 of the books I read this year were actually rereads. That's just over 75%

Which makes only 12 were books were ones that I read for the first time.

8 of those 12 first time reads were for university. They barely count. I didn't read them willingly.

So out of 52 books that I've read this year, only 4 of them were books that I've never read before and actually wanted to read. 

So in reality, only 4 books of these 52 books were books that I wanted to read and haven't read before.

I'm pathetic.

Total books read: 120
Total pages read: 33,743

Top 10 Fiction:
10. Shadows Over England trilogy, by Roseanna M. White (favorite: An Hour Unspent)
9. The Sunlit Lands trilogy, books 1-2 (plus novella), by Matt Mikalatos
8. The Lost Girl of Astor Street, by Stephanie Morrill
7. Island in the Stars, by Natalie Lloyd
6. Refiner's Fire series, books 1-2, by Lynn Austin (favorite: Fire by Night)
5. The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Divergent trilogy, by Veronica Roth (favorite: Allegiant)
3. Harry Potter series, books 3-4, by J.K. Rowling
2. Hidden Among the Stars, by Melanie Dobson
1. The Hunger Games trilogy (plus new prequel), by Suzanne Collins

Top 5 Rereads:
5. A Study in Scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. Trouble at Fort La Pointe, by Kathleen Ernst
3. Alaskan Courage series, by Dani Pettrey (favorite: Sabotaged)
2. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
1. The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis (favorite: all of them)

Top 10 Nonfiction:
10. None Like Him, by Jen Wilkin
9. White Awake, by Daniel Hill
8. No More Faking Fine, by Esther Fleece
7. More Than Just Making It, by Erin Odom
6. I'm Still Here, by Austin Channing Brown
5. Where Is God When It Hurts, by Philip Yancey
4. Me, Myself, and Bob, by Phil Vischer
3. Get Out of Your Head, by Jennie Allen
2. It's Not Supposed to be This Way, by Lysa Terkeurst
1. With, by Skye Jethani

what I've done in 2020:

January
Books: 7
Pages: 672
Hours: 17h
Average: 4,07 ★

· Emotions Explained with buff dudes ★★★✯☆
· As Kismet would have it ★★★★✯
· Attachments ★★★★★ ✵
· Well Met ★★★✯☆
· Quiet Girl in a Noisy World ★★★✩✩
· The Bromance BookClub ★★★★★ ✵
· Roube como um artista ★★★✯☆

February
Books: 5
Pages: 695
Hours: 17h04'
Average: 3,9 ★

· Love from A to Z ★★✯☆☆
· How to find love in a Bookshop ★★★★☆
· Big Magic ★★★★☆
· O método Bullet Journal ★★★★☆
· Invisible in the bright light ★★☆☆☆

March
Books: 8
Pages: 841
Hours: 22h34'
Average: 3,75 ★

· A new model ★★★★✩☆
· US ★★★★☆
· The Athena Club #01 ★★★✯☆
· Suddenly you ★★★★✯☆
· The Governess Deal ★★★★☆
· His bride for the taking ★★★☆☆
· The little book of huge ★★✯☆☆
· Mulheres e Ficção ★★★★✯

April
Books: 6
Pages: 1.224
Hours: 24h27
Average: 3,75★

· The wicked and the wallflower ★★★★☆
· The Athena Club #02 ★★✯☆☆
· El Castillo Ambulante ★★★★★
· Uma proposta e nada mais ★★★✯☆
· Giant Days #05 ★★★★☆
· Giant Days #06 ★★★★☆

May
Books: 6
Pages: 819
Hours: 19h50
Average: 2,8★

· Mr. Dickens & His Carol ★★★☆☆
· Miss Austen ★★★★☆
· The Lost Girls of Paris ★★★★★ ✵
· Mundo de Tinta ★★★☆☆
· Você é insubstituível ★★✯☆☆
· Sociedade literária e a Torta de Casca de Batata ★★★★★ ✵

June
Books: 8
Pages: 2.082
Hours: 21h39'
Average: 3,81★

· The Arrangement ★★✯☆☆
· The Bookshop of yesterday ★★★★☆
· O pretendente ★★★☆☆
· The Season ★★★★☆
· Herói nas Highlands ★★✯☆☆
· Amor nas Highlands ★★★★☆
· City of Brass ★★★★★ ✵
· Take a hint, Dani Brown ★★★★★ ✵

July
Books: 10
Pages: 1.579
Hours: 48h29'
Average: 3,55 ★

· The Jane Austen Society ★★✯☆☆
· The worst best man ★★★★☆
· Pumpkinheads ★★★★☆
· Uma noite inesquecível ★★★★✯
· The escape ★★★★★
· O conde Enfeitiçado ★★★★☆
· Uma paixão e nada mais ★★★☆☆
· The bookshop on the shore ★★☆☆☆
· A Princess in Theory ★★★✯☆
· 10 things I hate about Pinky ★★★☆☆

August
Books: 7
Pages: 911
Hours: 30h26'
Average: 4,21★

· a Duke by default ★★★★✯
· Wires and Nerves 01 ★★★★★
· Wires and Nerves GONE ROGUE ★★★★★
· A dead Djinn in Cairo ★★★★☆
· Uma promessa ★★★☆☆
· A prince on paper ★★★✯✩

September
Books: 4
Pages: 771
Hours: 16h34'
Average: 4,0★

· Brazen and the Beast ★★★★★ ✵
· Daring and the Duke ★★★★☆
· The Girl who drank the Moon ★★★✯✩
· Naturally Tan ★★★✯✩

October
Books: 7
Pages: 1210
Hours: 19h47'
Average: 4,0 ★

· Um beijo e nada mais ★★★★☆
· Spoiler Alert ★★★★☆✵
· Um beijo inesquecível ★★★✯☆
· A caminho do altar ★★★☆☆
· The Witful Princess & the Piebald Prince ★★★★★
· Uma dama fora dos padrões ★★★★★
· The Originals ★★★☆☆

November
Books: 4
Pages: 760
Hours: 15h40'
Average: 3,78 ★

· Undercover Bromance ★★★✯☆
· The heroic legend of Arslan ★★★✯☆

Reading challenge completed

· The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl ★★✯☆☆
· Fangirl ★★★★☆

December
Books: 7
Pages: 981
Hours: 39h33'
Average: 3,57★

· El affaire de la institutriz (Brothers Sinister #0.5) ★★★☆☆
· Chassing Cassandra ★★★★☆✵
· These Rebel Waves ★★✯☆☆
· Runaway Royals #01 ★★★★✯
· La sombra del viento ★★★★★ ✵
. Decadent dukes society #1 ★★★☆☆
. Decadent dukes society #2 ★★✯☆☆