Books Goals and Book Lists

I put a questions to my facebook friends (ok, I still get on facebook-just working on less time spent there) to capture their fave books of 2019.  Not necessarily writing in 2019 but read.  It was a great evening spent making plans to read certain books based on friends' recommendations.  I set a goal to read 100 books in 2019.  I read somewhere around 30.  I listened to a lot of podcasts but I just did not quite get to my lofty goal.  I hear in inspired some (my sister in law) to read 100 books and she came a lot closer-65ish and she told me she was not on social media much so I like where this is going.

Anyway, here is a list of books I want to read in 2020.  Some were my own discoveries and some (most) were friend recommendations-

Where the Crawdads Sing-Delia Owens
The Overdue Life of Amy Byler-Kelly Harms
City of Girls-Elizabeth Gilbert
Eleanor Oliphant is Absoutely Fine-Gail Honeyman
The Library Book-Susan Orlean
Next Year in Havana-Chanel Cleeton
Orphan Train-Christina Baker Kline
Quit Like a Woman-Holly Whitaker
We are the Luckiest-Laura Mckowen
Love Thy Neighbor:  A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America-Ayaz Virji
The Bright Hour-Nina Riggs
Supper Club-Lara Williams
Where'd You Go Bernadette-Maria Semple
Are You Sleeping-Kathleeen Barber
The Distance Between Us-Reyna Grande
The Great Believers-Rebecca Makkai
News of the World-Paulette Jiles
We are the Weather-Jonathan Safran Foer
The Huntress-Kate Quinn
The Alice Network-Kate Quinn
The Give of Stars-Jojo Mayes
Before We Were Yours-Lisa Wingate
Harlee Loco-Rayya Elias
We Were the Lucky Ones-Georgia Hunter
Beneath a Scarlett Sky-Mark Sullivan
The Devil in the White City-Erik Larson
The Monk of Mokha-Dave Eggers
Lincoln in the Bardo-George Saunders
The Warmth of Other Suns-Isabell Wilkerson
White Trash-Nancy Isenberg
The Gone World-Tom Sweterlitsch
What the What-Dave Eggers
White Fragility-Robin DiAngelo and Michael Erick Dyson
The Tatooist of Auschwitz-Heather Morris
The Institute-Stephen King
Walking Each Other Home-Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush
How to Grow An Addict-J.A. Wright
Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist-Sunil Yapa
Witnessing Ted-Carol Poteat with Ted Wiard
Between the World and Me-Ta-Nehisi Coates
It Didn't Start with You-Mark Wolynn
Shamless-Nadi Bolz-Weber
Jason Molina-Riding with the Ghost-Erin Osmon
The Dutch House-Ann Patchett
The Collected Stories of Eduora Welty-Eudora Welty
Never Stop Walking-Christina Rickardson
Chasing the Scream-Johann Hari
Untamed-Glennon Doyle Melton
Wolf Pack-Abby Wambach
The Hate You Give-Angie Thomas
The Bhagavad Gita-Eknath Easwaran
Perfect Peace-Daniel Black
Cherry-Mary Karr
Carry On Warrier-Glennon Doyle Melton
Mother, Mother Koren Zailckas
Option B-Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
The Signature of All Things-Elizabeth Gilbert
Me Before You-Jojo Mayes
AFter You-Jojo Mayes
The Goldfinch-Donna Tartt
Wool-Hugh Howey
Just Kids-Patti Smith
My Fair Junkie-Amy Dresner
Blackout-Sarah Hepola
Left to Tell-Immaculee Ilibagiza
Talking to Strangers-Malcolm Gladwell

Why this Blog?

I love to read and I love to write so this is a win/win combo for me and hopefully, you!  I wake up most days with words dancing in my head.  Sometimes I write them down.  Most days I just visit with them and then they leave.  Hopefully, this will help me capture words of my own as well as celebrate, review and revel in words of others.

I've wasted far too much time on social media and going down rabbit trails.  The apple feature of screen time usage report has really shown me that and I want to do something different this year.  So, instead of slinking down the dark holes of mind numbing social media, I will give myself limits and read instead.