2020 is now here so it's an appropriate time to look back on 2019 and think about my reading life. I read 121 books this year in the following categories; 50 mystery/thrillers, 19 science fiction/fantasy, 39 literary fiction and 13 nonfiction or anthologies. I belong to three book clubs with monthly books and I've been trying to read from my own shelves this year. Here's what I've loved the most in each category:
Mystery
1. Big Sky by Kate Atkinson
2. Knife by Jo Nesbo
3. The Child Finder by Rene Denfield
4. The Sentence Is Death by Anthony Horowitz
5. Lethal White by Robert Galbraith
Science Fiction/Fantasy
1. Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
2. The Grey Bastards by Jonathan French
3. Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
4. Blackfish City by Sam Miller
Literary Fiction
1. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
2. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
3. Milkman by Anna Burns
4. Night Boat To Tangier by Kevin Barry
5. 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster
6. Lincoln In The Bardo by George Sanders
7. In Our Mad And Furious City by Guy Gunaratne
8. The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
9. The Luminiaries by Eleanor Catton
10. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Nonfiction/Anthologies
1. Rembrandt's Eyes by Simon Schama
2. American Predator by Maureen Callahan
3. Comanche Empire by Pekka Hamalainen
Going forward here are my reading resolutions for 2020:
1. Read 121 books. That's 10 a month and should be doable
2. Finish the Robert Jordan The Wheel Of Time series
3. Reread The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
4. Read 3 classics. I'm thinking Middlemarch, a Dickens and an Austen
5. Continue to read from my shelves instead of constantly reading the newest titles.
Happy Reading!
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