It’s 2020 and this year I started out with 60 books as my Goodreads challenge and I was well on track until I decided half way through February to increase it to 100. On writing this (28 July 2020), I am 12 books behind where I should be (story of my life). I do however believe I will make it.

I don’t really have a strict rule about what I’ll be reading except that I should enjoy it, it should impact me in some way. My additional theme this year is travel reading challenge. I’d like to read an author from each of the 27 countries I have visited or lived in.

You can track my high level progress below.

Books read (72 / 100)

• Audible: 16
• eBook: 11
• Paperback: 25

January Wrap Up: 5

1. Period Pain by Kopano Matlwa (Paperback)
2. They Called Me Queer collected by Kim Windvogel (Paperback)
3. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Audible)
4. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin (Paperback)
5. The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger (Paperback)

Favourite book: The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger (Paperback)

February Wrap Up: 5

1. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Paperback)
2. The Ones with Purpose by Nozizwe Cynthia Jele (Paperback)
3. In Math We Trust by Simon Dingle (Paperback)
4. Dumplin by Julie Murphy (Paperback)
5. Betting on a Darkie by Mteto Nyati (Paperback)

Favourite book: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (Paperback)

March Wrap Up: 3

1. Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi (Paperback)
2. We Are The Ones We Need by Sihle Bolani (Paperback)
3. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (Audible)

Favourite book: Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi (Paperback)

April Wrap Up: 3

1. The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle (Paperback)
2. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (Paperback)
3. The Golddiggers by Sue Nyathi (Paperback)

Favourite book: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (Paperback) AND The Golddiggers by Sue Nyathi (Paperback)

May Wrap Up: 8

1. Dare to Lead by Brene Brown (Audible)
2. Start With Why by Simon Sinek (Audible)
3. The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod (Paperback)
4. Pachinko by Lee, MinJin (Audible)
5. The Invested Investor by Peter Cowley (Paperback)
6. Braised Pork by An You (Audible)
7. Fresh Off the Boat by Eddie Huang (Audible)
8. On Writing by Stephen King (Audible)

Favourite book: Pachinko by Lee, MinJin (Audible)

June Wrap Up: 10

1. Oh, never mind by Mary H.K. Choi (Kindle)
2. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill (Paperback)
3. Stokvels by Palesa Lengolo (Kindle)
4. It Takes What It Takes by Trevor Moawad (Kindle)
5. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (Paperback)
6. High Performance Habits by Brendan Burchard (Audible)
7. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl (Paperback)
8. All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M Johnson (Kindle)
9. This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender (Kindle)
10. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler (Audible)

Favourite book: This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kacen Callender (Kindle)

July Wrap Up: 11

1. Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangaremba (Kindle)
2. Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur (Kindle)
3. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia (Kindle)
4. Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo (Kindle)
5. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo (Audible)
6. The Sandman by Dirk Maggs and Neil Gaiman (Audible Original)
7. A Phoenix First Must Burn collected by Patrice Caldwell (Kindle)
8. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o (Paperback)
9. Hair Love by Matthew A Cherry (Paperback)
10. The Goal by Eliyahu M Goldratt (Audible)
11. The Old Guard #1 by Greg Rucka (Kindle)

Favourite book: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo

August Wrap Up: 17

1. You have to be Gay to Know God by Siya Khumalo (Paperback)
2. Dear Martin by Nic Stone (Kindle)
3. Sweet Medicine by Panashe Chigumadzi (Paperback)
4. The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed (Kindle)
5. Slay by Britney Morris (Kindle)
6. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet (Kindle)
7. The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor (Paperback)
8. Parable of the Talents by Octavia E Butler (Audible)
9. Yellowbone by Ekow Duker (Paperback)
10. Emergency Skin by N.K Jemisin (Kindle Unlimited)
11. Kindred by Octavia E Butler (Kindle)
12. Bloodchild by Octavie E Butler (Kindle)
13. Harriet Tubman : Demon Slayer #1 by David Crownson (Digital)
14. Harriet Tubman : Demon Slayer #2 by David Crownson (Digital)
15. Harriet Tubman : Demon Slayer #3 by David Crownson (Digital)
16. Harriet Tubman : Demon Slayer #4 by David Crownson (Digital)
17. The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae (Audible)

Favourite book of the month: Kindred by Octavia E Butler

September Wrap Up:

1. Esio Trot by Roald Dahl (Paperback)
2. The Girl with the Magic Finger by Roald Dahl (Paperback)
3. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J Klune (Scribd – Audiobook)
4. Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Dr Yusuf Salaam (Kindle)
5. Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (Kindle)
6. LaGuardia by Nnedi Okorafor (Kindle)
7. The Poppy War by R.F Kuang (Sribd – Audiobook)
8. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (Scribd – Audiobook)
9. You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat (Netgalley – eBook)
10. The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta (Kindle)

Travel Challenge (8 / 27)

1. Period Pain by Kopano Matlwa (Paperback) – South Africa
2. The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger (Paperback) – USA
3. The Golddiggers by Sue Nyathi (Paperback) – Zimbabwe
4. Pachinko by Lee, MinJin (Audible) – South Korea
5. Braised Pork by An Yu (Audbile) – China (Beijing)
6. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (Paperback) – Switzerland
7. Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o (Paperback) – Kenya
8. The black Flamingo by Dean Atta (Kindle) – Greece
9. Belgium
10. Serbia
11. Uganda
12. Malawi
13. Angola
14. Lesotho
15. Swaziland
16. Botswana
17. UAE
18. Malaysia
19. Thailand
20. Chile
21. Brazil
22. Mozambique
23. Zambia
24. Tanzania
25. Rwanda
26. Hong Kong
27. Burundi