It's officially the last day of the year. What a year it has been!
So my 100 books in a year challenge has officially ended. Back in January 2019 I took on this challenge for the first time and by the end of the year I had read 60
- 2019 blog post linked here: My Year in books 2019
As of attempt number 2 in the year 2020, I have read a total of 107 books!!! Meaning I have finally beaten my challenge!!!! If you couldn't already tell, writing a blog post about 60 books is hard let alone 107 and I'm a relatively opinionated person (shown by the fact I write a blog), especially when it comes to books: an essential part of my life. So below I've highlighted my favourites/the ones I think are seriously worth reading.
- George-Alex Gino
- 101 pieces of me- Veronica Bennett
- Heartstopper: volume one- Alice Oseman
4. Rookie on Love- Tavi Gevinson
5. Jim Henson's The Storyteller: Giants- Conor Nolan
6. My lesbian experience with loneliness- Kabi Nagata
7. Sincerely- Carol Ann Duffy
8. Heartstopper: volume two- Alice Oseman
9. Through your blood- Toby Campion
10. Fierce Femmes and Notorious liars- Kai Cheng Thom
11. The secret Loves of Geeks- Hope Nicholson
12. Solitaire- Alice Oseman
13. Poems to Fix a Fucked Up World- Various Poets
14. An Absolutely Remarkable Thing- Hank Green
15. Bone, volume 2: The Great Cow Race- Jeff Smith
16. Bone, Volume 3: The Eye of The Storm- Jeff Smith
17. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic- Alison Bechdel
18. Surge- Jay Bernard
19. Listener- Lemin Sissay
20. Speak: The Graphic Novel- Laurie Halse Anderson
21. Love is love: A comic book anthology- Marc Andreyko
22. Parrotfish- Ellen Wittlinger
23. How To Write a Love Story- Katy Cannon
24. We Come Apart- Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan
25. Bloom- Kevin Panetta
26. Adrian and the Tree of Secrets- Hubert, Marie Caillou and David Homel
27. Our dreams at dusk: Shimanami Tasogare volume 1- Yuhki Kamatani
28. Our dreams at dusk: Shimanami Tasogare volume 2- Yuhki Kamatani
29. Our dreams at dusk: Shimanami Tasogare volume 3- Yuhki Kamatani
30. Our dreams at dusk: Shimanami Tasogare volume 4- Yuhki Kamatani
31. Saving Montgommery Sole- Mariko Tamaki
32. Heartstopper: volume three- Alice Oseman
33. Through the Woods- Emily Carroll
34. Poemsia- Lang Leav
35. Weird things Customers say in Bookshops- Jen Campbell
36. Marxism and literary Criticism- Terry Eagleton
37. Feminists don't wear pink (and other lies): Amazing women on what the F-word means to them- Scarlett Curtis
38. Diary of a Confused Feminist- Kate Weston
39. Vox- Christina Dalcher
40. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue- Mackenzi Lee
41. Death of the suburb- Simon Zec
42. The Patchwork Carnival- Liam Smith
43. Diary of a Somebody- Brian Bilston
44. To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
45. Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)- Christina Henry
46. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe- Benjamin Alire Saenz
47. It's kind of a funny story- Ned Vizzini
48. The Perks of being a Wallflower- Stephen Chbosky
49. Waiting for Godot- Samuel Beckett
50. Alice by Heart- Steven Sater
51. Red Queen (The Chronicles of Alice #2)- Christina Henry
52. Looking Glass- Christina Henry
53. Pretending- Holly Bourne
54. Lord of the flies- William Golding
55. Am I normal yet? (The Spinster club #1)- Holly Bourne
56. Say, Say, Say- Lila Savage
57. My Brother's Name is Jessica- John Boyne
58. The Hidden Power of Fucking up- Keith Habersberger, Zach Kornfeild, Eugene Lee Yang, Ned Fulmer
59. Jack of Hearts (and other parts)- Lev A.C. Rosen
60. The Prom- Saundra Mitchell
61. Q- Christina Dalcher
62. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder- Holly Jackson
63. Overshare: Love, Laughs, Sexuality and Secrets- Rose Ellen Dix and Rosie Spaughton
64. Wonderland- Juno Dawson
65. The Gravity of Us- Phil Stamper
66. Attachments- Rainbow Rowell
67. Surviving me- Jo Johnson
68. Flowers for Algernon- Daniel Keyes
69. The Colour Purple- Alice Walker
70. The Meaning of Birds- Jayne Robin Brown
71. Hyperbole and a half: Unfortunate situations, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem and other things that happened- Allie Brosh
72. The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
73. Farenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
74. The Testaments- Margaret Atwood
75. This is going to hurt: Secret diaries of a junior doctor- Adam Kay
76. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavour- Hank Green
77. Heartstream- Tom Pollock
78. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear- Elizabeth Gilbert
79. The Picture of Dorian Grey- Oscar Wilde
80. Blue is the Warmest Colour- Julie Maroh
81. How to Build a Girl- Catlin Moran
82. Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction- Jonathan D.Culler
83. Queenie- Candice Carty-Williams
84. Extraordinary Means- Robyn Schneider
85. Not Working- Lisa Owens
86. Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
87. The City in the Middle of the Night- Charlie Jane Anders
88. The Book of Awesome Women: Boundary Breakers, Freedom Fighters, Sheroes and Female Firsts- Becca Anderson
89. Journey to the Centre of the Earth- Jules Verne
90. So Bright and Delicate: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
91. The Price Guide to the Occult- Leslye Walton
92. Alice in the Country of Hearts, Volume 1- QuinRose
93. Wicked: The life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West- Gregory Maguire
94. Notes on a Nervous Planet- Matt Haig
95. The Midnight Library- Matt Haig
96. Women don't owe you pretty- Florence Given
97. The Starless Sea- Erin Morgenstern
98. An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth- Chris Hadfield
99. Some kids I taught and what they taught me- Kate Clanchy
100. Reasons to stay alive- Matt Haig
101. Frankisstein- Jeanette Winterson
102. The inland sea- Madeleine Watts
103. Mooncop- Tom Gauld
104. The Great Gatsby graphic novel
105. Chasers of the light: poems from the typewriter series- Tyler Knott Gregson
106. Twas the nightshift before Christmas- Adam Kay
107. Brave new world- Aldous Huxley
With all that said, its time to announce my 2021 challenge... the backlog challenge. Not to brag, but I have somehow ended up with 4 table-height stacks of unread books and I have a limited amount of time to read them since I'm planning on continuing my studies elsewhere in September. This challenge is basically to read through your entire backlog of unread books, usually by the end of the year. I'm going to try and hit this goal by the beginning of August.
Ambitious? Yes
Achievable? who knows?
Hotel? Trivago
On that note, I would like to say Goodbye (at last) to 2020 and I'll see you folks later, in the New Year
- Amello
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