My post last year was: 2019 Long list V – The rest of recommendations /Highlights of my blogging year.
My Long Lists:
- 2020 Long List I : Inspirational Books and Learning Tools
- 2020 Long List II – Series’ I started or continued
- 2020 Long List III – Comics and Cozy reads
- 2020 Long List IV – Thrilling and Abstract
I started this last year because I ran out of books to sort into the arbitrary headers I had put it in. I then decided to parse individual posts to see if I can spot anything interesting. This is the result:
This final assortment is a mention of books and posts on the blog that got attention. My blog stats are also briefly mentioned. I do still have my graphs planned for tomorrow, fingers crossed to get that done tonight!!
My Most Viewed Post:
The Case for Three Detectives (125)
My Most Liked Post
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (28)
My Least Viewed Post
Scythe by Neal Schusterman (8)
My least ‘Liked’ post
What Stars Are Made of by Sarah Allen (5)
Top 5 reviews liked on Goodreads
- Open Carry and Stone Cross by Marc Cameron
- An Almost Zero Waste Life by Megean Weldon
- The Measure of Malice: Scientific Detection Stories
- Peter Wimsey #2 #3 by Dorothy L.Sayers
- Death in Delft Master Mercurius Mysteries Book 1 by Graham Brack
Highest Rated books read this year (as of this posting)
- Bears: Stunning Photographs of All the World’s Species by Tom Jackson
- Elephants by Tom Jackson(see the trend?)
- Radical Spirits by Nandini Patwardhan
Lowest Rated on Goodreads
Top 10 Least Read/Number of ratings on Goodreads
- Double Cross at the Badlands by Ralf MacGrady
- Sri Lanka by Stephen Holgate
- Krazy Kat Collection: Selected Sunday Strips 1918–1919 by George Herriman
- The Tarot Mysteries #4,#5,#6 by Bevan Atkinson
- Don’t Tell Mom About This by Eric Serrell
- The Bullet in the Pawpaw by Kim Hope
- Hell Gate (Ingo Finch #3) by Jeff Dawson
- Kong Boys by Gerald Yeung
- The Riddle of the Fractal Monks by Jonathan Pinnock
- Dangerous Earth by Ellen Prager
Top 5 books I disagreed with the popular rating on Goodreads ( I either rated a lot higher or lower than the average)
- Confessions About Colton by Olivia Harvard
- Nine Elms (Kate Marshall #1) by Robert Bryndza
- 18 Tiny Deaths by Bruce Goldfarb
- The Deadly Hours by Susanna Kearsley,C.S. Harris,Anna Lee Huber, Christine Trent
- The Body in the Garden by Katharine Schellman
As always I have to thank all those people who shared my posts, liked and commented, both here on WordPress and on Twitter!!
Great post! It is always interesting how different bloggers tackle the end of year post. Brilliant to see different takes and ideas.
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Thank you!! 😄I am reserving time out this upcoming week to check out all other end of 2020 posts as well! Cannot believe it’s actually over
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