Tuesday, January 1, 2019

2018 in books

2018 in books

a recap:
2010: i read 15 books.
2011: i started my book challenge with the goal of reading 25 books; i read 38.
2012: 34 books
2013: 34 books again
2014: 32 books
2015: 35 books
2016: 58 books (fluke/who have i become?)
2017: 57 books (the new normal?)
2018: 42 books (which somehow feels like a failure even though i know it's not.  i look around my apartment at all these unread books and think, "i could have read 10 more of these this year."  but it's not about the number, of course.  the number helps keep me accountable, but it's about having an active reading life as part of my greater life.)


12 of those were diverse books (as in, the main character or the author is not white)

my favorite books of 2018:
unsheltered, by barbara kingsolver
varina, by charles frazier
less, by andrew sean greer
americanah, by chimamanda ngozi adichie
the sun and her flowers, by rupi kaur
the immortalists, by chloe benjamin

go get reading, friends.

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