2020 book challenge

Alright, 2019 I only read 33 books. Honestly not bad if I say so myself. This year though I’m going to do more. I might not get to 52 but I’m going to get close enough. I struggled with affording all of the books I was wanting to read so my goal is to borrow books. My biographies I will get from the library. Others I will borrow from friends so that I can get a glimpse into their lives and maybe strike a bigger conversation with them. So, let’s get it going:

  1. Boss Bitch - Nicole Lapin (a re-read from 2018)

  2. The Testaments - Margaret Atwood

  3. Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut Jr

  4. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

  5. Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype - Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  6. Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Live, Love, Liberty, and Law - Jeffrey Rosen

  7. Russia: A 1000-Year Chronicle of the Wild West - Martin Sixsmith

  8. South and West: From a Notebook - Joan Didion

  9. In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O’Brien

  10. What a Time to Be Alone: The Slumflower’s Guide to Why You are Already Enough - Chidera Eggerue

  11. MaddAddam - Margaret Atwood

  12. The FIrst Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic - Jessica Hopper

  13. How to Get Over a Boy - Chidera Eggerue

  14. The Painted Table: Honoring Mother By Not Becoming Her - Suzanne Field

  15. In Five Years - Rebecca Serle

  16. Bossypants - Tina Fey

  17. Wow, No Thank You - Samantha Irby

  18. Unbought and Unbossed - Shirley Chisholm

  19. Why Not Me? - Mindy Kaling

  20. Southern Lady Code - Helen Ellis

  21. The Secret History - Donna Tartt

  22. How to Teach Filthy Rich Girls - Zoey Dean

  23. Wildflower - Drew Barrymore

  24. Meaty - Samantha Irby

  25. American Housewife: Stories - Helen Ellis

  26. Catherine the Great - Simon Dixon

  27. The Lottery - Shirley Jackson

  28. The SIrens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut Jr

  29. Untold Story - Monica Ali

  30. Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr

  31. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut Jr

  32. Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close - Amintou Sow

  33. Stalin as Revolutionary: A Study in History and Personality, 1879-1929 - Robert C. Tucker

  34. If It Bleeds - Stephen King

  35. The Curated Closet: A Simple System for Discovering Your Personal Style - Anuschka Rees

  36. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

  37. Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice

  38. The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice

  39. The Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice

  40. The Tale of the Body Thief - Anne Rice

  41. In Plain Sight - C.J. Box

  42. Free Fire - C.J. Box

I’m late - today is 07/10/2021 - I want to check in on these going forward. I am proud of myself for reading more than I had in 2019 and that is what mattered.

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