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2019: The Books
Jan. 16th, 2020 11:31 amIt's a week with a Wednesday in it, if not actually Wednesday anymore, and I'm still short on time. Not so short that I can't post my list of books read in 2019, though.
2019 was a banner year because I came to the end of Anthony Burgess' list in 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939. I really can't recommend this list highly enough if you want a reading challenge that is seriously challenging and full of weird and wonderful surprises. Burgess and I don't always agree on what we want out of a book, but he knows what he's doing and he's enough of an oddball to be interesting. It's not a one-year reading list unless you are way less easily distracted than me and have a lot of free time. It took me five years, but I was reading a lot of other things, too.
( a list follows )
Goals for 2020: read more of the books I already own, double back and find some of the recs I've been "meaning to check out" for the past 5-10 years, finish Sue Grafton's Alphabet of Destruction series, support local booksellers (but not too much). If I keep all my resolutions, the number of books read next year should shrink a little as I try to shift a little more time to other hobbies. But that part is highly aspirational, so who knows?
2019 was a banner year because I came to the end of Anthony Burgess' list in 99 Novels: The Best in English Since 1939. I really can't recommend this list highly enough if you want a reading challenge that is seriously challenging and full of weird and wonderful surprises. Burgess and I don't always agree on what we want out of a book, but he knows what he's doing and he's enough of an oddball to be interesting. It's not a one-year reading list unless you are way less easily distracted than me and have a lot of free time. It took me five years, but I was reading a lot of other things, too.
( a list follows )
Goals for 2020: read more of the books I already own, double back and find some of the recs I've been "meaning to check out" for the past 5-10 years, finish Sue Grafton's Alphabet of Destruction series, support local booksellers (but not too much). If I keep all my resolutions, the number of books read next year should shrink a little as I try to shift a little more time to other hobbies. But that part is highly aspirational, so who knows?
