Happy New Year! For the past three years, in addition to a New Year’s Resolution, I set a reading resolution for myself. This year’s goal was 40 books, and I met my goal right before Christmas (you’ll see 45 on the list, but 5 were rereads, so I’m not really counting those). In this post I offer my list in the hopes you’ll pick one of them up in 2019. I listed my top 5 Nonfiction picks, then my top 5 Fiction picks (sooo hard to narrow that down), but the rest of the list is in no particular order. I can honestly say I enjoyed every book . . . I’m kind of a book whore 🙂
- Born A Crime by Trevor Noah *NF
- Everybody Always by Bob Goff *NF
- Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell*NF
- The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls *NF
- Enrique’s Journey: The True Story of a Boy Determined to Reunite with His Mother *NF
- Simon vs. The Homosapiens Agenda
- Violent Ends
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
- Olivia Twisted by Vivi Barnes
- Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- THE LEAVING by Tara Altebrando
- BEHELD by Alex Flinn
- Unwind (Unwind Dystology)
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
- Unbelievably Bound by JC Reimer
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
- The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi
- Side Effects May Vary
- Under the Feet of Jesus
- Emergency Contact by Mary H K Choi
- Love Does by Bob Goff
- Positively Beautiful by Wendy Mills
- Faultlines by Lucienne Diver
- Keeping Her Secret by Sarah Nicolas
- Fences by August Wilson
- Maus by Art Spiegelman *Reread
- Looking For Alaska by John Green *Reread
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse *Reread
- My One Word by Mike Ashcraft & Rachel Olsen
- The Stand by Stephen King *Reread
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut *Reread
- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
- Visual Note-Taking For Educators by Wendi Pillars
- 180 Days by Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle
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Write What Matters: For Yourself, For Others by Tom Romano
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Books for Living: Some Thoughts on Reading, Reflecting, and Embracing Life by Will Schwalbe
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Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha) by Tomi Adeyemi
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
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Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
My goal for this year is 45 books! What’s your New Year’s Resolution? (Mine is to be content . . . there’s lots to be said for being content in our daily lives, and I’m looking forward to living with a word that reminds me to do that.) Any book resolutions? Cheers to Happy Reading in 2019! May the words you read open up new ways of thinking, inspiration, and possibilities!
Jamie Ayres 