I know this is a bit early but I’ve been wanting to get a head start on my reading list for 2019. In years past, I’ve added books knowing that I’m probably not going to get through them all. In 2018, I added books as I got through them.
This year, I’m determined to get through them all. As usual, I’ll highlight them as I finish them. I’m also not going to be shy about listing beach books, brain candy and guilty pleasures. Everything counts.
So, here goes 2019:
Fiction
1. Heir of Fire – Sarah Maas
2. LA Confidetial – James Ellroy
3. The Buried Giant – Kazuro Ishiguro
4. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
5. The Futures – Anna Pitoniak
6. Requiem for a Dream – Hubert Shelby Jr.
7. Bel Canto – Ann Patchett
8. Beloved – Toni Morrison
9. Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
10. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
11. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
12. The Stand – Stephen King
13. Watership Down – Richard Adams
14. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
15. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
16. The Whale Rider – Witi Ihimaera
17. Middlemarch – George Eliot
18. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
19. Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
20. Circe – Madeline Miller
21. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
22. Tess of the D’urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
23. Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
24. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
25. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
26. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
27. Persuasion – Jane Austen
28. Emma – Jane Austen
29. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
30. A Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
31. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
32. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
33. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
34. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
35. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
36. Look Homeward Angel – Thomas Wolfe
37. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
38. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
39. Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami
40. Blue Light Yokohama – Nicolas Obregon
41. Canal Dreams – Ian Banks
42. Mystery in White – J. Jefferson Farjeon
43. Her Fearful Symmetry – Audrey Niffengger
44. The Last Tudor – Philippa Gregory
45. The Other Queen – Philippa Gregory
46. Company of Liars – Karen Maitland
47. The Gargoyle – Andrew Davidson
48. Fury – Salman Rushdie
49. The Strain – Guillermo Del Toro
50. How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints) – Kathy Lee
51. Sworn Sword, 1066: The Aftermath – James Aitcheson
52. The Lady on the Train – Gerry Burke
53. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
54. Acacia – David Anthony Durham
55. The Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
56. Discovery of Witches – Deborah Harkness
57. The Sixth Wife – Suzannah Dunn
58. The Confession of Katherine Howard – Suzannah Dunn
59. The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
60. Heart Shaped Box – Joe Hill
61. The Shining – Stephen King
62. Red Rising
63. Salem’s Lot – Stephen King
As always, more will be added, I’ll go off-piste and the final list might be different, but one thing I’m certain of, this is the year of reading and 52 will be completed. 🙂
Wish me luck.
And a few extra I’m already working on….
Non-Fiction and Professional Development
1. Becoming – Michelle Obama
2. Thinking Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
3. Influence – Robert B. Cialdini
4. A Team of Rivals – Doris Kerns Goodwin
5. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
6. 12 Years a Slave – Solomon Northup
7. The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
8. Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
9. The Invisible Gorilla – Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons
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