So, I am heading back into work this week and reading has been one of those things which have kept so many of us anchored and sane and managing in the lockdown. So I thought I would bring together and share my covid reading… and in the interests of new portmanteau words like covidiot, perhaps I should go for coviterature?
The Long Way To A Small, Angry Planet, Becky Chambers 
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow, Natasha Pulley 
Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams 
The Mercies, Kiran Millwood Hargrave 
And the Ocean Was Our Sky, Patrick Ness 
Starsight, Brandon Sanderson 
And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie 
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo 
Moonflower Murders, Anthony Horowitz 
Daisy Jones and The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid 
Let’s rejig them into some categories
ARCs
Murder / Detective Fiction
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Historical
Literary Fiction
Young Adult
I would love to know what books have kept you going through the lockdowns and quarantines we have all be subject to…
Again, a David Mitchell book is an event, and a thing of beauty! But the music industry is not my natural setting and again I was caught between this and another book – Daisy Jones and the Six in this case – and Daisy Jones was read first. This time, because it was nominated on a book club I was part of.
Bonus: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
They say that the Thorn of Camorr can beat anyone in a fight. They say he steals from the rich and gives to the poor. They say he’s part man, part myth, and mostly street-corner rumor. And they are wrong on every count.
Only averagely tall, slender, and god-awful with a sword, Locke Lamora is the fabled Thorn, and the greatest weapons at his disposal are his wit and cunning. He steals from the rich – they’re the only ones worth stealing from – but the poor can go steal for themselves. What Locke cons, wheedles and tricks into his possession is strictly for him and his band of fellow con-artists and thieves: the Gentleman Bastards.
This one has been on my TBR for years. Literally years. I have heard nothing but praise for it, but so far have never quite got around to reading it! Go figure!
So, there we go: a range of books that I got in 2020 – save for the Scott Lynch – and do regret not reading during the year. Is regret the right word? Probably not to be honest: I do not regret the reading that I did do last year at all. But these are books that I would like to find time to catch up with this year – before prize season hits us again!
Pop in the comments below your thoughts on these – maybe let me know which I should read first!
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