37 books, a paltry offering. When 2016 started I told myself that reading wasn’t important. It would happen when it happened but mostly I had other things to concern myself with. I stayed true to the things that were important. Reading, unfortunately wasn’t one of them.
16 novels.
9 self-help.
2 new favorite writers.
1 reread.
Favorites: Britt-Marie was Here; All the Light We Cannot See; The Book of Joy; Essentialism; Accomplishing the Impossible; Vinegar Girl; The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; The Sixth Extinction; Finding Audrey.
Books that had me contemplating life: Breathing Lessons; Not My Will, But Thing; Olive Kitteridge; The Phantom Tollbooth; Britt-Marie was Here; My Grandmother Asked me To Tell you She’s Sorry; The Book of Joy; What I Know For Sure; Essentialism; Of Mice and Men; The Sixth Extinction; Finding Audrey
In 2017 I want to
- read more fiction than nonfiction (I’m in the middle of six books: 5 nonfiction, 1 fiction)
- read books in French
- read more classics
- eat more cake, cause nothing goes better with a good book than cake. True? True