Reading List 2020 – Part I
Completing this year’s GoodRead’s Reading Challenge in July doesn’t feel like much of an accomplishment. When I set my goal in January, I wanted to make sure I was making a realistic goal. I didn’t know what 2020 would bring.
Last year, I didn’t reach my reading goal of 16 books. Instead, I read 11 books, and a few of them were a struggle to complete. Should I have given up on them? No. I needed to learn why they weren’t hitting home with me. The main reason: the authors reeked of white privilege. Their woes were meager, such struggles didn’t seem all that hard, and maybe it’s not fair to compare their lives with mine, but in the end, they appeared to have gone back to fairly unimpressive but successful lives after their adventures: they got a book deal out of it. They made choices others could not afford nor imagine doing, and therefore I could not sympathize much in their sort of struggle.
Over the years, I’ve made a conscious effort to read more inclusively. While reading in a range of genres is good, it is the diversity of authors that is most important. Thus, 2017 and 2018 are considered my best, and favourite, book years so far. I’m continuing to read into 2020 after recently completing my goal of 10 books to make sure this year is a meaningful year of reading and learning. I’ve being using the Libby app which accesses my local library system so I can borrow and hold books to-read. When my 2020 reading journey comes to an end, we’ll see how Part II best reflects our current events. For now, here is Part I:
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
by Cathy Park Hong
Beach Read
by Emily Henry
They Said This Would Be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up
by Eternity Martis
Fangirl
by Rainbow Rowell
Oona Out of Order
by Margarita Montimore
Frankly in Love (Frankly in Love, #1)
by David Yoon
Career Rookie: A Get-It-Together Guide for Grads, Students and Career Newbies
by Sarah Vermunt
Nobody Cares
by Anne T. Donahue
The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient, #2)
by Helen Hoang
The Flatshare
by Beth O’Leary
