50 Books in 2020

At the start of what would become the most chaotic year ever I set myself a challenge to read 50 books over the year. I finally completed this challenge on the 28th December, with only 3 days to spare. I thought I’d share a quick list of everything I read in 2020 here, so here’s my 50 books of last year:

1. Inward – Diego Pérez

2. Do What Makes Your Soul Shine: Inspiring Quotes to Help You Live Your Best Life

3. Pillow Thoughts – Courtney Peppernell

4. Fantomina – Eliza Fowler Haywood

5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare

6. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

7. As You Like It – William Shakespeare

8. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley

9. Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare

10. Extracts from The Laugh of the Medusa – Hélène Cixous

11. Heartbreak House – George Bernard Shaw

12. The Feminist Manifesto – Mina Loy

13. Extracts from The History of Sexuality – Michel Foucault

14. Extracts from Imitation and Gender Insubordination – Judith Butler

15. Richard II – William Shakespeare

16. Under the Net – Iris Murdoch

17. Hamlet – William Shakespeare

18. The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje

19. How To Stop Time – Matt Haig

20. One Day – David Nicholls

21. Out of Love – Hazel Hayes

22. Hamilton: The Revolution – Lin Manuel Miranda

23. Tarot Made Easy: Learn How to Read and Interpret the Cards – Kim Arnold

24. The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad

25. Richard III – William Shakespeare

26. Measure for Measure – William Shakespeare

27. Extracts from Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography – Harriet Martineau

28. Extracts from The Women of England; Their Social Duties, and Domestic Habits – Sarah Stickney Ellis

29. Extracts from A Woman’s Thoughts About Women – Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

30. Extracts from Cassandra – Florence Nightingale

31. Extracts from The Queen’s Reign and its Commemoration: a literary and pictorial review of the period; the story of the Victorian Transformation – Walter Besant

32. Extracts from The Angel in the House – Coventry Patmore

33. Extracts from Of Queen’s Gardens – John Ruskin

34. Aurora Leigh – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

35. Othello – William Shakespeare

36. Woza Albert! – Percy Mtwa

37. Odour of Chrysanthemums – D H Lawrence

38. Kew Gardens – Virginia Woolf

39. The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield

40. In Memorium – Alfred Lord Tennyson

41. Extracts from The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin

42. Extracts from Technicians of the Sacred – Jerome Rothenberg

43. The Island of Doctor Moreau – H G Wells

44. The Man Who Would Be King – Rudyard Kipling

45. The Waste Land – T S Eliot X2

47. The Harlot’s House – Oscar Wilde

48. Extracts from Studies in the History of the Renaissance – Walter Pater

49. Brick Lane – Monica Ali

50. Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist – Tim Federle

A lot of my list were for my degree, but a few of my favourites were Brick Lane, One Day, Under the Net, How to Stop Time, Frankenstein, Out of Love, and The Waste Land. This year I’m increasing the challenge to 52 books, or one a week, hopefully I’ll complete it!

What were your favourite books last year?