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:
- Yes, Please by Amy Poehler
- Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
- Blue Nights by Joan Didion
- Bossypants by Tina Fey
- The Circle by Dave Eggers
- Commonwealth by Anne Patchett
- Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
- My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
- Heartburn by Nora Ephron
- Hunger by Roxane Gay
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo
- Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
- Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come by Jessica Pan
- The Summer of Naked Swim Parties by Jessica Anya Blau
- Go Set A Watchman by Harper Lee
- 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.