2019 Reading Plans

My 2018 reading plan was, uh... not at all successful, let's say. I didn't leave enough room in the plan for book club books, first of all. I also usually end up spontaneously needing to read something rightaway, and there wasn't room for that either. Last year's list is below, with items that I read or discarded struck out. I read ten of these books, out of the 31 that I had planned.
  1. Napier's Bones by Derryl Murphy
  2. If on a winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvino
  3. This Word Now by Owen and Jodi Egerton
  4. Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew
  5. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
  6. Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
  7. Sisters in the Wilderness by Charlotte Gray
  8. Spindle's End by Robin McKinley
  9. Elven Star by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
  10. The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
  11. Nexus: Ascension by Robert Boyczuk
  12. Havoc by Chris Wooding
  13. Wild Rose by Sharon Butala
  14. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
  15. Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
  16. The Revolutions by Felix Gilman
  17. Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente
  18. Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
  19. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
  20. The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch
  21. Golden Witchbreed by Mary Gentle
  22. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
  23. Dune by Frank Herbert
  24. A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
  25. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
  26. Little, Big by John Crowley
  27. Hild by Nicola Griffith
  28. Possession by A. S. Byatt
  29. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  30. Protector of the Small by Tamora Pierce (I've decided that I should start my exploration Pierce's work with the Lioness books instead)
  31. The System of the World by Neal Stephenson
I started working on my 2019 reading list several months ago, and it has 36 books on it (which is, yes, more than I did for the utter failure I encountered in 2018). Fortunately I've added very few new books onto my shelf over the last year. (New books are bold as usual.) First off, I plan to read at least six Top 100 books. I did better than that in 2018, but I like to keep my expectations at rock bottom when it comes to List books. Then, I have six slots for books club books, which could be literally anything. As for the rest, here they are in alphabetical order by title, because I love to just keep arbitrarily mixing this list up:
  1. Annual Shakespeare play (I figure that after consistently doing this for three years, I should put it on the official TBR; I have no idea which one I'll be picking up this year, though)
  2. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
  3. Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew
  4. Dune by Frank Herbert
  5. Elven Star by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
  6. Golden Witchbreed by Mary Gentle
  7. Hild by Nicola Griffith
  8. HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
  9. Into the Forest by Mark Z. Danielewski
  10. Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
  11. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
  12. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
  13. Little, Big by John Crowley
  14. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  15. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
  16. Nexus: Ascension by Robert Boyczuk
  17. Possession by A. S. Byatt
  18. Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente
  19. The Revolutions by Felix Gilman
  20. A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
  21. Spindle's End by Robin McKinley
  22. This Word Now by Owen and Jodi Egerton
  23. Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
  24. Wild Rose by Sharon Butala
Wish me luck and let me know what your reading plans are for the year!
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