Happy New Year! My resolution this year is to read 52 books, and also to stop neglecting this blog so much. This past year, I welcomed my baby nephew into my house and did all my coursework to earn my CDA, which I will have very soon. So you can imagine I was ridiculously busy. I’m sure that I will be busy this year, but I am going to do my level best, and that’s really all I can promise.
So while this may change as the year goes on, here is my tentative TBR list for 2020. (I finished “Shunned House” this morning, but A) I started it last year and B) it’s a short story.
1.. Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
2.. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (I am SUPER excited to see the Netflix show loosely based on it, and I want to read first so I recognize the themes.)
3.. Mythos by Stephen Fry
4.. Around the Moon by Jules Verne
5.. The Coral Island by RM Ballantyne (Full disclosure: I hated Lord of the Flies, so I will give it a chance, but I am not confident I’ll like this one.)
6.. An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott
7.. Jo’s Boys by Louisa May Alcott
8.. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
9.. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Yes, this is a lot of LMA, but there are even MORE of them.)
10.. Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
11.. Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor
12.. A Room Away From the Wolves by Nova Ren Suma
13.. Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
14.. Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco
15.. To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo
16.. Caraval by Stephanie Garber
17.. That Inevitable Victorian Thing by EK Johnston
18.. And I Darken by Kiersten White
19.. This Darkness Mine by Mindy McGinnis
20.. Heroine by Mindy McGinnis
21.. Diviners by Libba Bray
22.. Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray
23.. Before the Devil Breaks You by Libba Bray
24.. Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp
25.. Pretend She’s Here by Luanne Rice
26.. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
27.. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
28.. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
29.. The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
30.. The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien
31.. The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien
32.. Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
33.. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
34.. Cave of Bones by Anne Hillerman
35.. Dead Voices by Katherine Arden
36.. Ordinary Girls by Blair Thornburgh
37.. Voices by David Elliott
38.. The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake
39.. The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones
40.. Pan’s Labyrinth by Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke (I LOVE this film, so look out for a screen to page comparison!)
41.. Moonfleet by J Meade Falkner
42.. The Book of Were-wolves by Sabine Baring-Gould
43.. The Time Machine by HG Wells
44.. Persuasion by Jane Austen
45.. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
46.. Emma by Jane Austen
47.. Tales of the Jazz Age by F Scott Fitzgerald
48.. Legendary by Stephanie Garber
49.. Finale by Stephanie Garber
50.. A Passage to India by EM Forster
51.. The Unidentified by Colin Dickey
52.. The Ship of Dreams by Garett Russell
Maybe these will be the 52 books I read this year, or maybe only some of them will make the cut. I’ll give a review at the end of the year!
From my bookshelf to yours,
Laura
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