Here’s a list of all the books I read in 2020 and what I thought of them. My goal was to read 40, but I only read 34. I’m not going to be too hard on myself given… well, given it was 2020.

You’d think that in a year as strange and terrible as the one we just lived through, I’d want to escape into fiction even more. That was certainly the plan. But I found it difficult to concentrate on fictional worlds when the real one knocked so loudly at the door. I had to pencil reading time into each da...