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BTP's 2020 in Books

Happy New Year! Welcome to the first post of 2021. Thank you for spending your year with BTP! I have read 34 books this year. Here are the breakdowns of genres, classics to non-classic ratios, reviewed to non-reviewed (yet!) ratios, and titles!

BTP's 2020 in Books

34 books, 65 posts, 5 main genres


I think mystery/detective really pulled ahead in the end. If you visit my mid-year progression post I did in July, mystery was in the top genres, but it completely won here! I must say, I am NOT surprised in the least. It has become my favorite genre. 




It is not a secret that I read more classics than I do non-classics. Always. Every time. Every year. I am also aware that this is a book review blog...for young people (specifically young women). A post is actually coming soon on this topic so look out for that! I will discuss my concerns and how I have gotten over my "I'm not qualified" fears. 



I try to blog about all the books I read, but sometimes (due to being a student and a functioning member of my family) I cannot review every book I read, especially the ones I read for school. After discussing The Bacchae of Euripides for 7 straight class periods, I don't really feel like writing on my blog about a book I have talked about for a collective 8 hours. That said, I blogged about A LOT of books this year. 

BTP's 2020 Reading List One-Liners

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry - for school, but I liked it.
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare - nope. not for me. 
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick - read for the first book club I organized.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald - new favorite book (tied with another)!
The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie - first Christie of many on the year.
Love and Other Train Wrecks by Leah Konen - fun, light YA romance.
One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus - an inferior mystery.
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros - my first collection of vignettes.
Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein - a wee bit too mature for me, but good read!
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren - worth every single page.
An Inspector Calls by JB Priestly - inspired me to act!
Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie - *MUAH*.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson - so suspenseful for a YA.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - an old stand-by; time #3 for me. 
The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie - not my favorite Christie mystery.
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - spooooooooky.
Atomic Love by Jennie Fields - steeeeaaaamy, so not for me...
The Guest List by Lucy Foley - too much for me try it out though. I loved the plot idea!
Dracula by Bram Stoker - I answered a lot of trivia questions from this book.
The Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stenvenson - first school book.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - didn't technically finish. 
The Simple Wild by KA Tucker - too steamy, but cute couple.
Truly Devious: A Mystery by Maureen Johnson - fav from the trilogy.
Truly Devious: The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson - least fav from the trilogy.
Truly Devious: The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson - Book 4?
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - I didn't love this. 
The Bacchae of Euripides by Euripides - Very academic, but boring.
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles - Loved more than Antigone.
Antigone by Sophocles - Loved less than Oedipus Rex.
Macbeth by William Shakespeare - quotes officially hung in my room.
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie - JUST finished this. LOVE.
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - first play I acted in. 
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - delightful. 

BTP's Top Five

*I only considered books I read for the first time in 2020!*

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald & All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
2. Murder on the Links & Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
3. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
4. Truly Devious Trilogy by Maureen Johnson
5. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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