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Learn a Book! – 20[20 From To-Be-Read]

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Learn a Book! – 20[20 From To-Be-Read]

Another year, another witty gimmick gone half-made. Last year apparently I promised to read 30 books and then proceeded to immediately forget that and, for the rest of the year, assume that I must have promised to read 19. So 19 books were read.

This year is another one in which general fatigue and weariness have continued to slowly chip away at my bibliove. There was some consideration given to reading 20 books written in the 1920s, but that was immediately abandoned for reasons I really don’t think need explicit explaining.

A Tale as old as Casstastrophe is the one in which my book buying addiction always and forever outpaces by book reading. Part One of the issue is that I love to visit independent bookstores whenever I’m travelling and I happen to have made a personal vow to myself never to enter into an independent bookstore and come away empty handed. Support the brick and mortar, am I right!? Part Two of the issue is what I call The Blackouts. Some days I wake up with a visceral need to read something new. Nothing in the monstrously large To Be Read piles will cut it, and next thing I know I’m coming to back at home with a few (or a many) new buddies to add to the stacks.

In 2020 it’s time to get serious about said stacks. No more give but so seldom take. This year I’ll commit to reducing the current state of these piles by at least 20 books. I will not commit to not adding any more to them.

Hey, the first step is admitting that I am powerless.

  1. ‘Persuasion’ by Jane Austen [252 pgs]
  2. ‘The Clockwork Dynasty’ by Daniel H. Wilson [309 pgs]
  3. ‘Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA’ by Amaryllis Fox [224 pgs]
  4. ‘What Should Be Wild’ by Julia Fine [351 pgs]
  5. ‘The Call’ by Peadar O’Guilin [307 pgs]
  6. ‘Weapons of Peace’ by Peter D. Johnston [466 pgs]
  7. ‘The Alice Network’ by Kate Quinn [503 pgs]
  8. ‘Dreyer’s English’ by Benjamin Dreyer [269 pgs]
  9. ‘Dear Edward’ by Ann Napolitano [336 pgs]
  10. ‘Dear Madam President’ by Jennifer Palmieri [175 pgs]
  11. ‘Selected Poems of Robert Frost’ by Robert Frost [282 pgs]
  12. ‘Crave’ by Tracy Wolff [571 pgs]
  13. ‘Hex’ by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight [215 pgs]
  14. ‘The Chemist’ by Stephenie Meyer [518 pgs]
  15. ‘A Visit from the Goon Squad’ by Jennifer Egan [340 pgs]
  16. ‘Toil & Trouble’ by Augusten Burroughs [320 pgs]
  17. ‘Keats: Poems’ by John Keats [248 pgs]
  18. ‘Black Leopard Red Wolf’ by Marlon James [620 pgs]
  19. ‘The Lottery and Other Stories’ by Shirley Jackson [302 pgs]
  20. ‘Selected Poems’ by T.S. Eliot [127 pgs]
  21. ‘I’m Telling The Truth, but I’m Lying: Essays’ by Bassey Ikpi [256 pgs]
  22. ‘Akhmatova Poems’ by Anna Akhmatova [255 pgs]
  23. ‘Catherine House’ by Elisabeth Thomas [310 pgs]
  24. ‘Hood Feminism’ by Mikki Kendall [258 pgs]
  25. ‘Brontë’s Poems’ by Emily Brontë [249 pgs]
  26. ‘Queenie’ by Candice Carty-Williams [328 pgs]
  27. ‘Willow Weep for Me’ by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah [269 pgs]
  28. ‘Native Guard’ by Natasha Trethewey [49 pgs]
  29. ‘And Still I Rise’ by Maya Angelou [54 pgs]
  30. ‘Warm Bodies’ by Issac Marion [239 pgs]
  31. ‘Anna of All the Russias’ by Elaine Feinstein [288 pgs]
  32. ‘Midnight Sun’ by Stephenie Meyer [658 pgs]
  33. ‘A River of Royal Blood’ by Amanda Joy [351 pgs]
  34. ‘The Water Dancer’ by Ta-Nehisi Coates [403 pgs]
  35. ‘Children of Blood and Bone’ by Tomi Adeyemi [527 pgs]
  36. ‘Amelia Fang and the Barbaric Ball’ by Laura Ellen Anderson [206 pgs]
  37. ‘Dear John’ by Nicholas Sparks [335 pgs]
  38. ‘The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter’ by Theodora Goss [400 pgs]
  39. ‘Mexican Gothic’ by Silvia Moreno-Garcia [301 pgs]
  40. ‘Scythe’ by Neal Shusterman [435 pgs]
  41. ‘The Year of the Witching’ by Alexis Henderson [356 pgs]
  42. ‘Poems Bewitched and Haunted’ by Various [246 pgs]
  43. ‘The Night Circus’ by Erin Morgenstern [512 pgs]
  44. ‘Sunset Song’ by Lewis Grassic Gibbon [263 pgs]
  45. ‘Grown’ by Tiffany D. Jackson [372 pgs]
  46. ‘Hamlet’ by William Shakespeare [43 pgs]
  47. ‘Zenobia July’ by Lisa Bunker [313 pgs]
  48. ‘Washington Black’ by Esi Edugyen [384 pgs]
  49. ‘The Winter’s Tale’ by William Shakespeare [33 pgs]
  50. ‘The Remains of the Day’ by Kazuo Ishiguro [245 pgs]
  51. ‘Thunderhead’ by Neal Shusterman [504 pgs]
  52. ‘The Toll’ by Neal Shusterman [625 pgs]
  53. ‘Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945’ by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. [217 pgs]
  54. ‘Twelfth Night’ by William Shakespeare [28 pgs]

Total Page Count: 17,047 pgs

Boldly go where the bolded books bid you.

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