Books I Read in 2020

I did a lot of comfort reading this year. I re-read a lot of old favorites like the Dresden Files and Terry Pratchett, a lot of easy books I hadn’t read in years and years like the Little House books and a few of the Star Trek books, and a lot of new but similarly easy books like the rest of the Star Trek books. I read a couple of current events books, and a couple of other new books, too.

Wanderers, by Chuck Wendig, was one of the new books I read, and it was a pretty decent read. It’s about a plague that ends the world, so it got a lot of help from current events, being topical, that kind of thing. I also read Red Shirts, by John Scalzi, which has been out for a few years but it was new to me. I thoroughly enjoyed that one. It’s basically a Star Trek parody, but the names have been changed to protect the innocent, that sort of thing. It was a lot of fun, and pretty funny.

I re-read most of the Little House books a couple of months ago, which I hadn’t read since I was a kid. They’re kids’ books so I chewed through them over a weekend, and walked away mostly amused by the fact that apparently you couldn’t turn your back on Pa Ingalls for a single hot second without him tossing up a house and plowing a field on any spare bit of land he stumbled over. Also, holy hell, there’s a lot of racism in those books I’d completely forgotten. At one point Pa Ingalls helps put on a minstrel show in black face. Like, okay, it was a long time ago, but damn.

2020 Reading List

1. A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America, Philip Rucker & Carol Leonnig (Got about a third of the way through it and gave up. Super dry. Might try it again in a few years.)
2. STP: The Last Best Hope, Una McCormack
3. World War Z, Max Brooks
4. ST: Uhura’s Song, Janet Kagan
5. ST: The IDIC Epidemic, Jean Lorrah
6. ST: The Vulcan Academy Murders, Jean Lorrah
7. Raising Steam, Terry Pratchett
8. ST: Ishmael, Barbara Hamby
9. Thief of Time, Terry Pratchett
10. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
11. Wanderers, Chuck Wendig
12. Thud!, Terry Pratchett
13. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
14. Snuff, Terry Pratchett
15. Jingo, Terry Pratchett
16. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
17. Feet of Clay, Terry Pratchett
18. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara
19. Red Shirts, John Scalzi
20. Peace Talks, Jim Butcher
21. Too Much and Never Enough, Mary Trump
22. The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle
23. Battle Ground, Jim Butcher
24. Side Jobs, Jim Butcher
25. Brief Cases, Jim Butcher
26. Cold Days, Jim Butcher
27. Skin Game, Jim Butcher
28. ST: Spock’s World, Diane Duane
29. The Stand, Stephen King
30. ST: The Three-Minute Universe, Barbara Paul
31. ST: The Pandora Principle, Carolyn Clowes
32. ST: Doctor’s Orders, Diane Duane
33. ST: Federation, Garfield Reeves-Stevens & Judith Reeves-Stevens
34. Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder
35. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
36. On the Banks of Plum Creek, Laura Ingalls Wilder
37. By the Shores of Silver Lake, Laura Ingalls Wilder
38. Little Town on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
39. The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder
40. These Happy Golden Years, Laura Ingalls Wilder
41. STTNG: Debtor’s Planet, WR Thompson
42. ST: Killing Time, Della Van Hise
43. ST: The Tears of the Singers, Melinda Snodgrass
44. STTNG: Infiltrator, WR Thompson
45. The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus, L. Frank Baum
46. STTNG: Spartacus, TL Mancour
47. STTNG: The Peacekeepers, Gene DeWeese