> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.andrewliptak.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # What I Read in 2020 - URL: https://www.andrewliptak.com/what-i-read-in-2020/ - Published: 2021-01-01T16:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2021-03-23T17:11:10.000Z - Author: Andrew Liptak - Tags: Book List Last 2020 retrospective that I’ve got for you this week. Happy new year! Over the last couple of years, I’ve kept a running thread on Twitter of the books I read, part of my effort to keep myself on track with a reading goal of roughly a book a week. In 2018, [I blew past my goal with 74 books](https://www.andrewliptak.com/blog/2018/12/6/all-the-books-i-read-in-2018-science-fiction-fantasy-horror-history), but last year, [I missed my goal](https://www.andrewliptak.com/blog/what-i-read-in-2019-books-science-fiction-fantasy-history-reading) (42 of 52), but still read a lot of great books. This year, I didn’t quite hit the goal either, but I did better than I did last year. An easy reason for that is that I didn’t set enough time to read. When asked, I tell people that my goal is to set aside 30-40 minutes a day of dedicated reading time, and that my time was first thing in the morning, before I booted up email, Slack, and Feedly. I’ve also found that as I did a lot of driving, I listened to more audiobooks (usually alongside the print edition) The last couple of years, I’ve slipped a bit out of that habit — the COVID-19 pandemic certainly hasn’t helped this year, given that for most of the spring, my infant daughter was here, along with my son, who was doing remote learning: some of my time got eaten up simply by more parenting time. That eased off this summer a bit as they both went to daycare and school, and I was able to snatch time away in the afternoons after they left or when work slowed down a bit. I tend to read mostly science fiction and fantasy, and I’ve been trying to read more outside of the genre: literary-ish fiction, nonfiction, and so forth. It also pushes me to read stuff that I might not otherwise pick up, and to focus on reading more authors of colors and from marginalized backgrounds. I think I succeeded there, and in doing so, I found some new authors and titles that really blew me away, exposing me to new perspectives and imparted new insights into the world. Looking at the final count, they comprised more than half of my reading this year, which I’m pretty happy with, although there’s always more to do. --- So, here’s what I’ve read in the last 12 months: 1. *[Gideon the Ninth](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781250313188?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Tamsyn Muir 2. *[Moon of the Crusted Snow](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781770414006?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Waubgshig Rice 3. *[Westside](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9780062853998?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by W.M. Akers 4. *[Interior Chinatown](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9780307948472?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Charles Yu 5. *[Finna](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781250245731?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Nino Cipri 6. *[Delta-V](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781524742416?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Daniel Suarez 7. *[Ninth House](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781250313072?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Leigh Bardugo 8. *[Vagrant Queen](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781939424419?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Magdalene Visaggio and Jason Smith 9. *[Republic Commando: Hard Contact](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9780345478276?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Karen Traviss 10. *[Ms. Marvel: Generation Why](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9780785190226?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by G. Willow Wilson 11. *[Riot Baby](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781250214751?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Tochi Onyebuchi 12. *[Tales from the Loop](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781982150693?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Simon Stålenhag 13. *[Gravity of a Distant Sun](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781481476935?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by R.E. Searns 14. *[Sixteenth Watch](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9780857668059?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Myke Cole 15. *[The Last Emperox](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9780765389169?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by John Scalzi 16. *[The Lost Book of Asana Moreau](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781335010124?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Michael Zapata 17. *[Hearts of Oak](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781250260536?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Eddie Robson 18. *[Vagabonds](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781534422087?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Hao Jingfang / Ken Liu 19. *[The Hobbit](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9780395071229?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by J.R.R. Tolkien 20. *[The Andromeda Evolution](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9780062473349?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Daniel Wilson 21. *[The City We Became](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9780316509848?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by N.K. Jemisin 22. *[Burn-In](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781328637239?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Peter W. Singer and August Cole 23. *[Department of Mindblowing Theories](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781770463752?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Tom Gauld 24. *[Shorefall](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781524760380?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Robert Jackson Bennett 25. *[Red Dust](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781632062468?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Yoss 26. *[Parable of the Sower](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781609807191?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Octavia Butler 27. *[The Relentless Moon](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781250236968?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Mary Robinette Kowal 28. *[Mexican Gothic](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9780525620785?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Siliva Moreno-Garcia 29. *[The Only Good Indians](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781982136451?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Stephen Graham Jones 30. *[Failed State](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9780062859105?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Christopher Brown 31. *[The Movie Art of Syd Mead, Visual Futurist](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781785651182?ref=andrewliptak.com)*, Syd Mead 32. *[The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9780765387561?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by V.E. Schwab 33. *[Ring Shout](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781250767028?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by P. Djéli Clark 34. *[Survivor Song](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9780062679161?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Paul Tremblay 35. *[A Wealth of Pigeons](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781250262899?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Harry Bliss and Steve Martin 36. *[Embers of War](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781785655180?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Gareth L. Powell 37. *[The Tower Treasure](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9780448089010?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Franklin W. Dixon 38. *[Serpentine](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9780593377680?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Philip Pullman 39. *[Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional History of New York City](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9780316501217?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Julia Wertz 40. *[The Salvage Crew](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781949890709?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne 41. *[Ready Player Two](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781524761332?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Ernest Cline 42. *[Archeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781250231345?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Sarah Parck 43. *[Madi: Once Upon a Time in the Future](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781940878454?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Duncan Jones and Alex de Campi 44. *[Sourdough: Or, Lois and Her Adventures in the Underground Market](https://bookshop.org/a/6134/9781250192752?ref=andrewliptak.com)* by Robin Sloan --- What didn’t I finish? I’ve got a huge stack of books here in my workspace — books stacked into various priority stacks — stuff to read right away, books to get to for various projects, and titles that I’ll keep around as a reminder that I’d like to get to when the mood strikes me. So, time to reset the count, and start again tomorrow. Hopefully, I’ll hit my goal in the next 12 months. What’s on your list to read, and how are you approaching reading in 2021? Andrew