The Plan
Last year, I made a list of books for every week of the year. I hardly read anything from the list. I read things like N.K. Jemisin’s Inheritance trilogy, revisited some of the books of Iain M. Banks Culture series (currently reading Against a Dark Background), and basically, just read whatever I felt like and only looked at the list a few times. I did manage to read the first entry, Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha by Daniel M. Ingram, which I found worthwhile.
This year I’m going to try just one book a month.
- The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Robert Calasso
- Chicago by Brian Doyle
- Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
- Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
- Against Method by Paul Karl Feyerabend
- Building Stories by Chris Ware
- The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector
- The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- The Odyssey by Emily Wilson
- Ulysses by James Joyce (in conjunction with Stuart’s companion volume)
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
Beyond the list, I’ll make room for anything like the Murderbot series by Martha Wells, Ann Leckie, and any of the other usual suspects. Memory’s Legion, the final book in the Expanse series is coming out in March, isn’t it? Knowing me, I’ll want to reread the whole series again next year. Maybe as a fun corrective, I’ll keep a list of books actually read below.
The Reality
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
- The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
- The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, 3/6
- Holes by Louis Sachar, 3/11
- The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss, 3/17
- Leviathan Falls by James S. A. Corey
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, 8/8
- Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir, 9/29
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