Leigh Anne Eck at A Day In the Life and have taken over for Carrie. Add your list to Leigh Anne's blog post here. I will host the voluntary updates in the last weeks of April, August, and Leigh Anne will host our final update in December. (Note that it takes two people to handle what Carrie Gelson at There's A Book For That managed all on her own.)
I am keeping the same format I've used for the last few years. I have lists of books that I plan to read from. This keeps me focused on books I want to read and at the same time permits me to read with serendipity and flexibility.
There are four lists that I plan to read from: fiction, nonfiction, indigenous authors, and Canadian authors. I expect there to be crossover between the lists.
NOVELS
My goal is to read at least 24 books from this curated list.
My goal is to read at least 24 books from this curated list.
All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac
Beautifully Me by Nabela Noor
Born Behind Bars by Padma Venkatraman
Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier
The Heaviness of Things That Float by Jennifer ManuelHomicide and Halo-Halo by Mia P. Manansala
How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly BlackI Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
The Island of Monsters by Ellen OhKim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Nam-Joo Cho
Leo and the Octopus by Marinov, Isabelle
Letters from Cuba by Ruth Behar
The Lincoln Highway by Amor TowlesThe Lion of Mars by Jennifer L. Holm
The List of Last Chances by Christina Myers
Lore Olympus: Volume One by Rachel Smythe
My Name Is Konisola by Alisa Siegel
No Vacancy by Tziporah CohenNoor by Nnedi OkoraforNotes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieNubia: Real One by L.L. McKinney
Paladin's Grace by T. KingfisherPax, Journey Home by Sara Pennypacker
Playing the Cards You're Dealt by Varian JohnsonThe Prairie Chicken Dance Tour by Dawn DumontThe Princess in Black and the Mermaid Princess by Shannon Hale
Project Hail Mary by Andy WeirThe Project by Courtney SummersThe Red Palace by June Hur
Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca
A Sitting in St. James by Rita Williams-Garcia
A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
Spell Sweeper by Lee Edward Födi
Stand on the Sky by Erin Bow
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
Things We Lost to the Water by Eric NguyenTraitors Among Us by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
We Give Thanks by Cynthia Rylant
Zenobia July by Lisa Bunker
NONFICTION
I plan to read 18 of these books. Some of them I own, but they are in boxes in storage somewhere. I thought house renovations would go faster. I hope to get them out of hibernation and on to shelves before summer!
The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
Echoes of British Columbia: Voices from the Frontier by Robert Budd
The Elephants Come Home: A True Story of Seven Elephants, Two People, and One Extraordinary Friendship by Kim Tomsi
The Girl Who Could Fix Anything: Beatrice Shilling, World War II Engineer by Mara Rockliff
Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughen
Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal by Patty Loew
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Little and Often: A Memoir by Trent Preszler
Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel,
On Animals by Susan Orlean,
On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey by Paul Theroux
The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed by Wendy Lower
Saved by a Song: The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting by Mary Gauthier
Take Back the Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age by Nora Loreto
A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein
We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson
The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry
Last year I planned to read at least 100 books by Canadian authors. I'm doing that again. They come from an ever evolving list. You can see it here.
INDIGENOUS CANADIAN AUTHORS
Like my Canadian authors list, this one is also evolving. I plan to read at least 25 books from this list.
There is a lot of variety on your lists. I recently listened to Crying in H Mart. It was good. One of my goals is to read a bit more nonfiction this year.
ReplyDeleteI am finally getting around to reading everyone's posts! You have so many new-to-me titles! That is what gets dangerous about reading these. I am looking forward to reading I Must Betray You. Increasing nonfiction is always a goal for me. I did not know you could add shelves for books you haven't read on Goodreads! I am going to have to look into that. Thanks for co-hosting with me again! I look forward to some exceptional reading in '22!
ReplyDeleteI'm happy that we are cohosting again too! It's like making a new friend. Maybe someday we will meet in person?
DeleteWhat an excellent set of lists for the challenge, Cheriee! I haven't read the vast majority of these, but I have read The Girl From the Sea, I absolutely love Zenobia July, and The Elephants Come Home is actually a finalist in the Cybils category I'm judging for. I imagine you'll have an excellent time reading all these—and I'll have an excellent time adding them to my TBR list as you review them! Thanks so much for the wonderful post!
ReplyDeleteWow, Cheriee, I am impressed. I saw a few I've read and enjoyed, like The Black Friend, but others I've bookmarked for me to read, like the new Jason Reynolds. Thanks to you & Leigh Anne for doing this! It's dangerous reading while my list grows and grows!
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