Last year, 2018, was a difficult one for the reasons laid out in the previous two posts. One aspect of my life that was affected was the ability to just lie in bed and read for hours, though that would have been more wholesome than obsessing on puzzles and other mindless occupations. However, here is a list but I think it might be incomplete.
2018 Reading List:
16. Dairy Queen, Catherine Gilbert Murd0ck
15. Mustang: A Lost Tibetan Kingdom, Michel Peissel
14.Nashville Burning, Gerald Duff
13.With One Shot, Dorothy Marcic
12.What You Are All Getting Wrong About Appalachia, Elizabeth Catte
11. Nobody’s Fool, Richard Russo
9-10. The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin
8. Slapstick, Kurt Vonnegut
7. A Dark Reckoning, J.R. Rasmussen
6. The Genius of Birds, Jennifer Ackerman
4.An Unseen Light, Goudsouzian & McKinney eds.
5. News of the World, Pauline Jiles
4. Chemistry, Weike Wang
3.The Woman’s Hour, Elaine Weiss
1-2. Edgedancer, Oathbringer, Brandon Sanderson
Started but didn’t finish:
- Tobacco Road, Erskin Caldwell
- Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
- Exit West, Mohsin Hamid
- The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova
- Lab Girl, Hope Jahren
- A Sky Full of Birds, Matt Merritt
- The Potlikker Papers, John T. Edge