Ask HN: Books You Read in 2020?

Perhaps a bit cliche, but I started on a "Great Russian novels" marathon at the start of the year and have read all of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

Brothers Karamazov was my favorite. I liked ''War and Peace too', and can somewhat understand why they call 'Anna Karenina' one of the best books ever written.

Just recently, I finished 'Doctor Zhivago', and 'Fathers and Sons', and 'The Master and Margarita'. I thought they were all brilliant.

Since the year is coming to and end, I hope to reread VS Naipaul's 'A House for Mr Biswas'. It's my favorite novel and I keep coming back to it again and again.

The Inspector Maigret series. There are about 70 in all. I've read about 15-20 so far. The era I'm reading now is around the 1930s to 1940s.

Having spent some time in France, it's interesting to be able to visualise the scene when I read about places I've been to.

Then there are the historical books about First World War happenings. "Catastrophe" by Max Hastings, "Fromelles" by Patrick Lindsay.