I’ve kept this space on the back burner for the better part of the last decade. Given that we’re on the cusp of a new one, it seems like a fitting time for me to start using it for something. So, thanks to the inspiration of Sarah at Dogs, Coffee, & Books, here’s a look back at my reading for 2019 to kickstart me into a new decade that’ll hopefully be filled with more words – both those I write and read.
The year was above average in terms of the number of books I made it through – but perhaps not pages. I didn’t have many of the massive tomes that I tend to be drawn to this year. Still, the total is still below what I set out to read 365 days ago. The list is incomplete due to the fact that I don’t feel like typing up a list of the 69 some odd graphic novels I worked through over the course of the year. It felt like there was a lot of…meh this year. I feel good for reading a number of books, but I didn’t spend much of my time enthralled either (looking at you Dostoyevsky).
Highlights of the year are noted by a * below. Rereads with a (R).
2019 – Reading
- Urrea – House of Broken Angels*
- Wilson – Fences
- Loomis – History of America in 10 Strikes
- Ondaatje – Warlight
- Gaiman – Coraline (R)
- Obren – Six Days of War*
- Adams – The Viking Wars
- Christie – ABC Murders
- Tucker – City of Light, City of Poison
- Savage – Every Tool is a Hammer
- Gleick – The Information*
- Payne – The Broken Ladder
- Murakami – Wind up Bird Chronicle*
- Sobel – Longitude
- Ghosh – The Great Derangement*
- Odell – How to do Nothing
- Higginbotham – Midnight in Chernobyl*
- Sebald – Rings of Saturn* (R)
- Caro – Working
- Humes – Garbology
- Epic of Gilgamesh (R)
- Okorafor – Binti Trilogy*
- Pynchon – Against the Day* (R)
- Homer – The Odyssey (R)
- Euripedes – Medea (R)
- Sophocles – Oedipus Rex (R)
- Wu – The Curse of Bigness
- Dante – The Inferno (R)
- Dostoyevsky – The Brothers Karamazov
- Yamashita – Tropic of Orange (R)
- Orange – There There*
- Wedgewood – The Thirty Years War*
- Oliver – New and Selected Poems vol. 1
- Norris – Clybourne Park
- Joyce – Dubliners
- Vuong – On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous*
Onward to 2020!
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