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Last year, I read and listened to 20 books. This was way more than usual. I think its because I didn’t work for three months and because I discovered Libby, an app that I hooked up to my (okay, my sister’s) library card and it just made it super easy to find and download audiobooks to listen to on road trips. (I took a lot of road trips.)

I use Goodreads to keep track, which also tells me I read 6,225 pages across 20 books. They were, in no particular order:

1. Yes, Please by Amy Poehler
2. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
3. Blue Nights by Joan Didion
4. Bossypants by Tina Fey
5. The Circle by Dave Eggers
6. Commonwealth by Anne Patchett
7. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
8. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
9. My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
10. Heartburn by Nora Ephron
11. Hunger by Roxane Gay
12. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
13. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
14. The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo
15. Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
16. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
17. Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come by Jessica Pan
18. The Summer of Naked Swim Parties by Jessica Anya Blau
19. Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
20. Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

I bolded ones I would recommend to anyone reading this. Personal highlights include: finally reading a Joan Didion book after watching her documentary, discovering Murakami, and reading only one management/work-related book. (I find them mostly to be not great and too long/repetitive.) I’m excited to read more Didion and Murakami in 2020.