Basically, anything that I didn't manage to read during 2018, is going down on my list now. In between working and research, I'm going to do my best to get back into reading for leisure. Sometimes life gets in the way and you fall into a reading slump. But more than that, I read an article saying that the average attention span nowadays is 45 seconds, and I want to challenge this so one of my New Year's Resolutions is to get off my phone and away from flitting between apps. So, here's the list:
Out of my Head by Tim Parks
Milkman by Anna Burns
Being Dead & The Melody by Jim Crace (in that order)
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain De Botton*
I am, I am, I am by Maggie O'Farrell*
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by M.A. Shaffer & Annie Barrows*
Normal People by Sally Rooney
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Autumn by Ali Smith*
Spring by Ali Smith
Norwegian Wood by Murakami*
Men Without Women by Murakami*
A Little History of Literature by John Sutherland
How to Write Like Tolstoy by Richard Cohen
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
The Good People by Hannah Kent
Get your sh*t together by Sarah Knight
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Anything marked with (*) means I've already started it but am yet to finish it. I'll be coming back and adding to the list as the year goes on. As part of my reading goals for the year, I want to read more widely, across genres and across periods, and hopefully more non-fiction too.
You can follow my reading journey on Goodreads, if you're into that. I've set myself the challenge of 50 books this year, let's see!
What's on your 2019 TBR? Let me know!
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