104/52. When you've got time on your hands and finally accept ebooks...

I kinda over did it this year. I usually finish the year at about 70 books read but with the pandemic and me finally getting into ebooks (thank you public libraries) I went way over what I thought I would. I'd vehemently denied using ebooks until this year but got curious about a month into COVID. Hopefully next year calms down a little bit and I can go back down to 70ish books. Well here's my list, the highlights of my year are in bold.

  1. French Exit by Patrick deWitt
  2. The War Prayer by Mark Twain
  3. The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow
  4. Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi by John Scalzi
  5. Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
  6. Terminal Alliance by Jim C. Hines
  7. Being a Dog: Following the Dog Into a World of Smell by Alexandra Horowitz
  8. Less by Andrew Sean Greer
  9. Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber
  10. Minecraft: The Island by Max Brooks
  11. The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
  12. The Princess Beard: The Tales of Pell by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne
  13. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  14. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
  15. The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
  16. Wolfpack: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game by Abby Wambach
  17. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin
  18. Have You Eaten Grandma?: Or, the Life-Saving Importance of Correct Punctuation, Grammar, and Good English by Gyles Brandreth
  19. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  20. A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
  21. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  22. Our Dogs, Ourselves: The Story of a Singular Bond by Alexandra Horowitz
  23. Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman
  24. Crack'd Pot Trail by Steven Erikson
  25. Rabbit Cake by Annie Hartnett
  26. The Circle by Dave Eggers
  27. Recursion by Blake Crouch
  28. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
  29. War Dogs by Greg Bear
  30. Killing Titan by Greg Bear
  31. Take Back the Sky by Greg Bear
  32. This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich
  33. Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and the New Realities of Girl World by Rosalind Wiseman
  34. On Cussing: Bad Words and Creative Cursing by Katherine Dunn
  35. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions From Tiny Mortals by Caitlin Doughty
  36. On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz
  37. When Life Gives You Pears: The Healing Power of Family, Faith, and Funny People by Jeannie Gaffigan
  38. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  39. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
  40. Toddlers Are A**holes: It's Not Your Fault by Bunmi Laditan
  41. America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't by Stephen Colbert
  42. The Passage by Justin Cronin
  43. Supermarket by Bobby Hall
  44. Heartburn by Nora Ephron
  45. Dead People Suck: A Guide for Survivors of the Newly Departed by Laurie Kilmartin
  46. How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People by D. L. Hughley
  47. Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog by Dave Barry
  48. The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson
  49. Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris
  50. It Ain't Cheatin' If You Don't Get Caught: Scuffing, Corking, Spitting, Gunking, Razzing, and Other Fundamentals of Our National Pastime by Dan Gutman
  51. Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman by Lisa Scottoline
  52. The Twelve by Justin Cronin
  53. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores by Jen Campbell
  54. The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian by W. Kamau Bell
  55. The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin
  56. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
  57. Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World by Matt Parker
  58. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
  59. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
  60. Peace Talks by Jim Butcher
  61. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  62. Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
  63. Crooked by Austin Grossman
  64. Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven But Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America by Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno
  65. The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
  66. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
  67. The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani
  68. Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
  69. Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich by Peter Schweizer
  70. Network Effect by Martha Wells
  71. Red Sister by Mark Lawrence
  72. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
  73. Grey Sister by Mark Lawrence
  74. How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times by Roy Peter Clark
  75. Shakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher Moore
  76. Holy Sister by Mark Lawrence
  77. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
  78. Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch
  79. The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum
  80. The Book of Joan: Tales of Mirth, Mischief, and Manipulation by Melissa Rivers
  81. Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch
  82. Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking
  83. Whispers Under Ground by Ben Aaronovitch
  84. The Gray Man by Mark Greaney
  85. How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker: The Wisdom of Dickie Richard by Penn Jillette and Mickey D. Lynn
  86. Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks
  87. Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch
  88. Battle Ground by Jim Butcher
  89. Rage by Bob Woodward
  90. Surrender, White People!: Our Unconditional Terms for Peace by D. L. Hughley and Doug Moe
  91. Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick by David Wong
  92. Foxglove Summer by Ben Aaronovitch
  93. Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by Barbara Demick
  94. You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place by Janelle Shane
  95. Why Believe the Bible? by John MacArthur
  96. The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch
  97. Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II by Richard Reeves
  98. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
  99. Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch
  100. False Value by Ben Aaronovitch
  101. The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality by Richard Panek
  102. I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad by Baynard Woods and Brandon Soderberg
  103. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green
  104. How to Hold Animals by Toshimitsu Matsuhashi

Posted Dec 27, 2020, 9:55 PM UTC

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Wow, this is honestly such an inspiration for someone like me who's barely only starting this challenge for 2021lmaoo. Good job mate.

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