Hi friends,

Yesterday I finished reading ‘Ever Greener’ by Ruth Jones and thus completing my 2020 reading challenge of reading 52 books! I started the challenge for a bit of fun but have genuinely loved reading this year and updating my Dad and my pals on where I was at with my challenge. I think next year I’ll set different reading goals and focus on what I’m reading rather than ‘how much’ but easily met my 52 this year (there’s still three weeks left of the year after all) so may keep the number the same. Took some screenshots from my Goodreads as I thought it looked really pretty:

I tried to order/rank everything I read but honestly from numbers 20 – 40 I could probably bunch them all together. Apparently I rate a lot of books four stars on Goodreads… like for example I really loved all the Cara Hunter novels but they somehow ended up quite far down the list?! I did have some definite favourites and a few ones I really didn’t rate that much so anyway here’s my ’52 in 52′ for 2020:

1. The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
2. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
3. Ghosts by Dolly Alderton
4. The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
5. Educated by Tara Westover
6. Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
7. The Switch by Beth O’Leary
8. The One by John Marrs
9. Animal Farm by George Orwell
10. Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding 
11. How to Fail by Elizabeth Day 
12. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams 
13. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo 
14. The Truants by Kate Weinberg
15. Testaments by Margaret Attwood
16. Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
17. The Rotters Club by Jonathon Coe
18. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
19. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
20. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
21. The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale
22. I See You by Claire Mackintosh 
23. Never Greener by Ruth Jones
24. The Perfect Wife by JP Delaney
25. Close to Home by Cara Hunter 
26. In the Dark by Cara Hunter
27. What a Time to Be Alone by Chiddera Eggerue
28. Missing Presumed by Susie Steiner
29. No one is too small to make a difference by Greta Thunberg
30. Persons Unknown by Susie Steiner
31. No Way Out by Cara Hunter 
32. All the Rage by Cara Hunter 
33. Women Don’t Owe you Pretty by Florence Given
34. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
35. The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
36. Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo
37. Small Island by Andrea Levy
38. Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls
39. Don’t Believe a Word by David Shariatmadari
40. After the End by Claire Mackintosh
41. My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
42. The Cactus by Sarah Haywood
43. Us by David Nicholls
44. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
45. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
46. Dancer from the Dance by Andrew Hollerman
47. The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
48. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
49. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout 
50. The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul by Deborah Rodriquez
51. All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison 
52. The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan

DNF: 

On Chapel Sands by Laura Cumming

Bunny by Mona Awad

Tangerine by Christine Magan

One Summer by Bill Bryson