Yesterday I took a little time to reflect on what I read and what didn't work for my reading life in 2019. Last year I read a lot of slow books and didn't give myself the freedom to change things up with familiar re-reads like I usually do. Because of that, I continually lost momentum and a lot of the books I read (even the great ones) seemed to drag.
But it's a fresh new year and I've created a fresh new list. Cody and I spent the morning pulling books off the shelves to read in 2020, and I'm excited to tackle my 2020 list. (I think Cody may share his list on the blog this week and he might even contribute some guest posts this year. Keep your fingers crossed.)
In the meantime, here are the books I hope to read this year. As always, if you are interested in reading any of these with me, shoot me a message and I'll be happy to let you know when I start the book so we can read it together and discuss it. Here we go!
Lies Women Believe : Nancy Leigh DeMoss
This Momentary Marriage : John Piper
Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World : Joanna Weaver
John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit : James Traub
Andrew Jackson : H.W. Brands
The Passions of Andrew Jackson : Andrew Burstein
The Four Loves : C.S. Lewis
The Diary of a Young Girl : Anne Frank
All's Well that Ends Well : William Shakespeare
Cymbeline : William Shakespeare
David Copperfield : Charles Dickens
Gone With the Wind : Margaret Mitchell
Middlemarch : George Eliot
The Age of Innocence : Edith Wharton
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall : Anne Brontë
Something Wicked this Way Comes : Ray Bradbury
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass : Lewis Carroll
A Little Princess : Frances Hodgson Burnett
Ballet Shoes : Noel Streatfeild
All the Light We Cannot See : Anthony Doerr
Hum If You Don't Know the Words : Bianca Marais
See any of your absolute favorites there? You may have noticed that David Copperfield, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and All the Light We Cannot See got carried over from last year's list, and I finally decided to ditch the Unger biography of John Quincy Adams in favor of James Traub's. I'm secretly hoping to make it through a third president this year to make up for only reading one last year, but we'll see how it goes. My list consists of 21 books and I'll be shooting for a total of 24 in 2020. Let's go!
Happy New Year & Happy Reading!
What are you planning to read this year? Do you make a book list for yourself? Are you interested in reading any of the books from my 2020 list along with me?
