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Jan 03, 2020 04:13PM
Sticking with past goal of 75 books. I've exceeded it for the past two years but I think I want to try to read at a more leisurely pace for 2020.
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Good luck on your goal of slowing down and reading leisurely :)
Jan 2020:1. The Chain, by Adrian McKinty, Jan 6. (3 stars)
2. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford, Jan 8. (NF, 5 stars)
3. London Rules by Mick Herron, Jan 12.
4. Cherry by Nico Walker, Jan 16.
5. The Circle by Dave Eggers, Jan 20.
6. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, Jan 22.
7. The Topeka School by Ben Lerner, Jan 29.
Feb 2020:* also read the first 50 pages of Fleischman is in Trouble before giving up.
8. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk, Feb 3.
9. Follow You Home by Mark Edwards, Feb 23. (audiobook)
10. The Whisper Man by Alex North, Feb 24.
11. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton, Feb 7.
12. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, by Claire North, Feb 12.
13. The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz, Feb 26.
14. Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha, Feb 29.
Mar 2020:15. Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya, Mar 1.
16. The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock, Mar 4.
17. How the Scots Invented the Modern World, by Arthur Herman, Mar 8.
18.Death Deserved by Jørn Lier Horst, Mar 15.
19. The Power of the DogThomas Savage, Mar 23.
20. Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson, Mar 24.
21, Before It Breaks by Dave Warner, Mar 29.
*read 60 pages of Verity and gave up
*read 50 pages of The Thicket and gave up
April 2020: Pandemic Stay-at-Home Month22. Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter, Apr 3.
23. The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag, Apr 5.
24. Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry, Apr 9.
25. The Swimmer by Joakim Zander, Apr 12.
26. Night Prayers by Santiago Gamboa, Apr 14.
27. Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson, Apr 15.
28. Dead I Well May Be by Adrian McKinty, Apr 16.
29. Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré, Apr 21.
30. Birdman by Mo Hayder, Apr 25.
May 2020:Ready 30 pages of You Should Have Known, gave up
31. The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup, May 1.
32. The Ghosts of Belfastby Stuart Neville, May 5.
33. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss, May 12.
34. The Naturalist by Andrew Mayne, May 14.
35. The Lost Man by Jane Harper, May 16. (reread)
36. The Cutting Place by Jane Casey, May 20.
37. The Friend by Sigrid Nunez, May 23. (reread)
June 2020:38. Dead Before Dying by Deon Meyer, June 1.
39. Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor, June 3.
40. The Lost Children Archive by Valerie Luiselli, June 5.
41. Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf, June 7.
42. Spring by Ali Smith June 9.
43. Dept. of Speculation, by Jenny Offill, June 11.
44. Every Day is for the Thief by Teju Cole, June 14.
45. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, June 23.
46. Track Changes by Sayed Kashua, June 30.
July 2020:Read 30 p. of The People's House, gave up; 100 p. of Murder in Marais by Cara Black, gave up
47. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, July 9.
48. Joe Country by Mick Herron, July 13.
49. A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell, July 14.
50. Miracle Creek by Angie Kim, July 25.
Aug 2020:Read 100 pages of Starless Sea, gave up.
51. Now We Are Dead by Stuart MacBride, Aug 2.
52. No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase, Aug 5.
53. Snap by Belinda Bauer, Aug 8.
54. The Butcher of Casablanca: A Detective Hanash Crime Novel, Aug 5.
55. Heaven, My Home by Attica Locke, Aug 10.
56. Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aug 20.
57. The Less Dead by Denise Mina, Aug 28.
Sept 2020:58. The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald, Sept 1.
59. Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine K. Albright, Sept 7.
60. The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel, Sept 9.
61. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips, Sept 15.
62. Raven Black by Ann Cleeves, Sept 11.
63. The Tenant by Katrine Engberg, Sept 15.
64. Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich, Sept 20.
65. Circe by Madeline Miller, Sept 21.
66. The Papers of Tony Veitch by William McIlvanney, Sept 23.
67. White Nights by Ann Cleeves, Sept 26.
Oct 2020:Read 200 p of John Connolly Every Dead Thing, gave up.
68. Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh, Oct 1.
69. Red Bones by Ann Cleeves, Oct 3.
70. Blue Lightning, by Ann CleevesOct 8.
71. A Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George, Oct 10.
72. The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri, Oct 11.
73. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, Oct 13.
74. The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Oct 19.
75. The Overstory by Richard Powers, Oct 23.
76. Dead Water by Ann Cleeves, Oct 30.
Nov 2020:77. Eeny Meeny by M.J. Arlidge, Nov 2.
78. Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan, Nov 4.
79. The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, by Richard Holmes, Nov 10.
80. The Summer House by James Patterson, Nov 12.
81. 10:04 by Ben Lerner, Nov 16.
82. The Long Drop by Denise Mina, Nov 20.
83. Deacon King Kong by James McBride, Nov 27.
Dec 2020:84. Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler.
85. Blue Monday by Nicci French.
86. Death at Whitewater Church by Andrea Carter.
87. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart.
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