Any Goodreads user has access to a yearly report with some statistics and basically the covers of all the books read in one year. In order to have it the user only has to set the books as read and the read date to any time in that year. Taking advantage of this nice feature I will summarize My 2020 in Books from Goodreads, as I did for my read books in 2018 and 2019.
Data
| 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book read | 42 | 56 | 54 | 54 | 57 | 63 |
| Pages read | 6,353 | 8,037 | 7,511 | 9,388 | 12,136 | 7,855 |
| Average length (in pages) | 151 | 143 | 139 | 173 | 213 | 125 |
| Average rating (1-5) | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 3.3 |
The featured image goes to James Rhodes, as I liked a lot his autobiography. You can read my review in Goodreads but I will summarize it here with the first sentence: Instrumental is a terrible book and at the same time a wonderful one. Knowing the James Rhodes from nowadays, and knowing already a bit about his past, it is even more emotional.
I’m not copying here the full list, friend me on Goodreads if you are curious, but at least I want to highlight some of them.
My TOP 10 read books in 2020
- Instrumental by James Rhodes (you can read my review in Spanish in Goodreads)
- Factfulness by Hans Rosling (you can read my review in Spanish in Goodreads)
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (you can read my review in Spanish in Goodreads)
- What I talk about when I talk about running by Haruki Murakami (you can read my review in Spanish in Goodreads)
- Rey Blanco by Juan Gómez Jurado (you can read my review in Spanish in Goodreads)
- El Tío Curro: La Conexión Española de J.R.R. Tolkien by José Manuel Ferrández Bru (you can read my review in Spanish in Goodreads)
- Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (you can read my review in English in Goodreads)
- Cicatriz by Juan Gómez Jurado
- The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russel
- Si escuece, cura by Esther Samper (you can read my review in Spanish in Goodreads)
