2020 TBR

I mean, we all know what this is by now. It's a list of books I carry forward from year to year, because I never seem to cross them off my list. I buy all these books, I fall in love with the cover art, the idea of devouring a story, and then fail to connect with the text, or even to complete it. Do you feel this way? Anyway, here are the books I'm determined to knock off my list this year.

Out of my Head by Tim Parks

Milkman by Anna Burns

Being Dead & The Melody by Jim Crace (in that order)

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

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

Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne*

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov*

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante*

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman*

Anything marked with (*) means I've already started it but am yet to finish it. As you can see, there are many that fall into this category. Anything that is written in grey text has been read. I'll be coming back and adding to the list as the year goes on.

You can follow my reading journey on Goodreads, if you're into that. I've set myself the challenge of 25 books this year, which I think is doable, and I hope to double. Which book on your TBR are you the most excited to read?