Book List 2019

I have been tracking my reading on this blog for 8 years now. Over that time I have read 524 books!!

Goals:
- To be more purposeful with my book selection and time spent reading
- To read more non-fiction that helps further my other life goals
- To diversify my list and read more works written by women, First Nations, POC, LGBTQ authors
- To "read harder" and read more books in translation
- To keep my library holds under control, and cull my TBR list
- To write/record more reviews

Watch for:
** > I recommend this title!
Blue text > Listened to with Dude
TW > Trigger Warnings for content

Let's Go! 

January
1. Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (Book 1 in a sci-fi series)
2. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (mystery sci-fi)**
3. Bone Gap by Laura Ruby (sci-fi/magical realism, TW emotional abuse)
4. Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle (non-fiction)**
5. An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Soloman (sci-fi, TW for physical and sexual abuse)**

February
6. Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (TW physical abuse)
7. Birdie by Tracy Lindberg (TW child sexual abuse, homelessness, physical abuse, mental illness, anti-indigenous racism)
8. Persuasion by Jane Austen (re-read)**
9. The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker ("coming of age")
10. Broken Kingdom by NK Jemisin (sci-fi/fantasy)**
11. Dracul by Dacre Stoker & JD Barker (fantasy-vampires)**

March
12. Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga (non-fiction,TW: racism, discussions of death by suicide and sexual assault at Residential Schools)
13. The Black Tides of Heaven by J.Y. Yang (sci-fi/fantasy)
14. Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu, translated by Joel Martinsen (sci-fi)
15. Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough by Doug Saunders (non-fiction, politics)**
16. Affinity by Sarah Waters (lesbian historical fiction)**


April
17. Poppy War by RF Kuang (fantasy, TW: rape, war, torture, self-harm, suicide)
18. After the End by Amy Plum (sci-fi/dystopian, YA)
19. Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice (sci-fi, own voices)**
20. New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson (sci fi)
21. Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
22. In The Woods by Tana French (murder mystery, TW: rape, child abuse)**
23. Dreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories by Kelly Barnhill (short stories, magic)**

May
24. Circe by Madeline Miller (greek mythology re-telling)**
25. Raven Tower by Ann Leckie (fantasy)
26. Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism and other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen R. Ghodsee (non-fiction)**
27. Red Clocks by Leni Zumas (dystopian genre fiction re: outlawing abortion)

June
28. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (sci-fi, fantasy)**
29. The Good House by Tananarive Due (horror)**
30. California Bones by Greg van Eekhout (super unique magic + a heist! TW for descriptions of gore)**
31. Storm of Locusts by Rebecca Roanhorse (Native American own voices, dystopian sci-fi fantasy horror)**
32. Steal the Sky by Megan E. O'Keefe (sci-fi)

July
33. The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig (YA, sci-fi)
34. Vampire Forensics: Uncovering the origins of an enduring legend by Mark Collins Jenkins (non-fiction)
35. Harry Potter: Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
36. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (thriller, TW for self harm, harm to children)**
37. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (thriller)
38. Timeless by Gail Carriger (5th book in a series, fantasy)**
39. Shadowed Sun by NK Jemisin (2nd book in a series, sci-fi/fantasy)**
40. Six Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente (fantasy, Snow White re-telling)**
41. Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (sci-fi/fantasy, dystopian, horror)**
42. All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells (1st book in a series, sci-fi, novella)**
43. Early Riser by Jasper Fforde (classic Fforde, defies genres)**
44. The Nature Fix by Florence Williams (non-fiction)**

August
45. The Bear & the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (fantasy/fairytale)**
46. The City & The City by China Mieville (sci-fi)
47. The Murderbot Diaries: Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (sci-fi series)
48. The Huntress by Kate Quinn (historical fiction)**
49. In The Garden of Iden by Kage Baker (sci-fi)

September
50. Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor (afrofuturism, sci-fi)**
51. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (sci-fi sorta)
52. Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger (Finishing School series book 2, fantasy, steampunk, middle grade/YA)
53. The People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozworski (non-fiction, economics & socialism)**
54. Whose Water is it Anyway? by Maude Barlow (non-fiction, climate & water activism)**
55. Waistcoats & Weaponry by Gail Carriger (Finishing School series book 3, fantasy, steampunk, middle grade/YA)

October
56. The Year of Less by Cait Flanders (non-fiction)**

57. Rosewater by Tade Thompson (Book 1 in the Wormwood trilogy, afro futurismi, sci-f)
58. Hot: Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth by Mark Hertsgaard (non-fiction, climate crisis)**
59. Nancy Drew: The Mystery of the Misty Canyon by Carolyn Keene

November
60. The Black God's Drums by P. Djeli Clarke (afro futurism, sci-fi, fantasy, YA, LGBT, novella)**
61. Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #1, fantasy, LGBT)**
62. Passing Strange by Ellen Klages (magical realism, historical fiction, LGBT)**
63. Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee (Sidekick Squad #1, YA, superheroes, LGBT)**
64. The Affair of the Mysterious Letter by Alexis Hall (scifi, fantasy, Sherlock Holmes re-imagining, LGBT)**
65. The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley (TW for war, LGBT, sci-fi)**
66. Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #2, sci-fi, fantasy, YA, LGBT, novella)**
67. Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #3, sci-fi, fantasy, YA, LGBT, novella)**

December
68. Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me by Anna Mehler Paperny (TW suicide, non fiction)**
69. No Hard Feelings by Liz Fosslien & Mollie West Duffy (non fiction)**
70. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (historical fiction, LGBT, TW for descriptions of assault & homophobia)
71. Playing Big by Tara Mohr (non-fiction)**
72. The Unfinished World and other stories by Amber Sparks (unsettling short stories)**

Goal: 52
TOTAL READ: 72

FURTHER READING
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