2020 year in reading

First of all, writing up a few books that I read as research for my Yuletide fics: ( Some history books! )

Anyway, onto the reading year... I read something between 89 and 92 books, depending on how you count reading the same book twice (I re-read Flight of the Heron and Sir Isumbras at the Ford for Broster fandom reasons, and Piranesi because I just liked it that much). That's nearly half as many again as in 2019—for obvious reasons I had more free time and less to do with it, and reading has been a great comfort amidst the trials and difficulties of the year.

Highlights include:

• Frontier Wolf and Sword at Sunset by Rosemary Sutcliff


• Gösta Berling's Saga and various others by Selma Lagerlöf


• Re-reading the Malory Towers books by Enid Blyton for the first time in many years


• Quatrevingt-treize by Victor Hugo


• Various Jacobite history books, of which my faves were The '45 by Christopher Duffy and The Lyon in Mourning by Robert Forbes


• Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison


• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke


• Nine books by D. K. Broster, of which my faves (besides FotH!) were Sir Isumbras at the Ford and "Mr Rowl"


• And six books by E. W. Hornung, of which I especially enjoyed Stingaree and No Hero

It's been a pretty good year for reading, on the whole! Lots of progress made on both the E. W. Hornung and D. K. Broster read-throughs, some old favourites revisited and new favourites discovered.

I've already got the new year off to a good start by reading another Sutcliff, on which more thoughts shortly. :D