End of Year TBR (2020)

Last year, 2019, I made a TBR for the whole year, with very varying results as I did not take enough into account the fact that I was going to university for the first time, hahha. I knew I would have less time, but the actual time I did have to myself, let alone to read for fun, was still so much less than expected.

This year I’ve only made two smaller TBR lists; Spring TBR! & Queer TBR of June for #PrideLibrary20. I want to make a summary update of this years TBR posts at the end of the year as well, but before that – why don’t I make another TBR with the books I might read between now and next semester start in early january? Take into account that it’s exam season, but it finished up early for me this year. So I don’t think any of these books will get started before 10th of December, at the very least. I’ll probably need even more downtime to recover, as I expect the time until exams to be extra dramatic this covid-riddled year.

The End of Year TBR

Audiobooks

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• We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy Pearlman (memoir, nonfiction; history, war, politics)
• We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai (nonfiction; memoir, feminism, politics)
• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (poetry, YA contemporary, lgbt; queer girls)

Poetry & graphic novels

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• Sweetdark by Savannah Brown (poetry)
• Paper Girls vol. 3 – 6 (graphic novel)
• On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden (graphic novel, lgbt; f/f, sci-fi)

Science

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• The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here by Hope Jahren (science; climate change)
• Love and Math by Edward Frenkel (science; math)
• Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku (science; physics)
• Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction by David C. Catling (science)
• The Body in Pain by Elaine Scarry (was also on 2019 TBR oops, philosophy; disability)

Fantasy & sci-fi

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• Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett (fantasy)
• The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust #2) by Philip Pullman (fantasy)
• Dune by Frank Herbert (read for bookclub, a classic sci-fi)

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• Kant: A Very Short Introduction by Roger Scruton (nonfiction; philosophy – preparing for obligatory philosophy class in spring)
• The Trial by Franz Kafka (reread for bookclub, classic)
• A norwegian collection of debut poets – Signaler 2019
• Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman (politics)
• A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver (nonfiction; poetry writing)
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong