2020 Books in Review

 For 2020, I read and/or listened to 173 books. Of those 22 were books. However, some of those were listened to at least partially via text to speech.

I only tagged one book to the great books: The Conundrum. This book is nearly a decade old. However, it does a good jon at looking at the various trade offs made to respond to climate change. Often the "easy" solution will end up causing unexpected changes that will make things worse. This is a common problem whenever people are involed.

Books read by year

By year, the oldest was 1856, the most common were 2020 and 2019. (There are some books which had multiple years: date written and date translated, etc.)

1856: 1
1899: 1
1940: 1
1941: 1
1954: 1
1966: 1
1968: 1
1977: 1
1990: 1
1992: 2
1998: 1
1999: 3
2000: 3
2001: 2
2002: 1
2004: 2
2005: 2
2006: 6
2007: 2
2008: 10
2009: 9
2010: 9
2011: 12
2012: 8
2013: 13
2014: 12
2015: 9
2016: 7
2017: 13
2018: 13
2019: 16
2020: 16

Significant categories of books:

I just use the labels for everything, so there are authors, narrators, genres and series names all mixed in. And I am not super consistent in the usage.

fantasy: 26 - I'm not s big fan of fantasy, so this was a surprise
young adult fiction: 19 - I can be inconsistent labeling young adult vs. childrens books
history: 17 - I do like history
John Flanagan: 15 - I went through a lot of ranger's apprentice and brotherband
science fiction: 14
childrens books: 14
John Keating: 14 - The Narrator for most John Flanagan books.
ranger's apprentice: 14
historical fiction: 9
politics: 8
science: 8
brotherband: 7
social science: 6
education: 6
Michael Scott: 6
Nicholas Flamel: 6
Robert Asprin: 6
self help: 5
Paul Boehmer: 5
technology: 5
math: 5
psychology: 5
Noah Michael Levine: 5
Phule: 5
Gerard Doyle: 5
Christopher Paolini: 5
Inheritance Cycle: 5