So many things can happen in a year, both expected and unexpected. The same can be said about the reading list I had planned for this year. Now that it has come to an end (already!), I see what a strange turn the original 2019 reading list took. Books were taken out and books were added. The outcome, to be frank, I am pleased with.
So without further ado, here’s my 2019 reading list now that the year has come to an end:
L’étranger (Albert Camus)The Assassin’s Blade (Sarah J. Maas)Throne of Glass(Sarah J. Maas)Crown of Midnight(Sarah J. Maas)Heir of Fire(Sarah J. Maas)Queen of Shadows(Sarah J. Maas)Empire of Storms(Sarah J. Maas)Tower of Dawn(Sarah J. Maas)Kingdom of Ash(Sarah J. Maas)La terre sauvage (Julia Verlanger)Harry Potter et l’école des sorciers (J. K. Rowling)In Defense of Globalisation (Jagdish Bhagwati)The Wise Man’s Fear (Patrick Rothfuss)- A la recherche du temps perdu (Marcel Proust)
- North and South (Elisabeth Gaskell)
C’est la vie – The French Art of Letting Go (Fabrice Midal)Stupeur et tremblements (Amélie Nothomb)La Théo des fleuves (Jean Marc Turine)Coeur d’encre (Cornelia Funke)Chansons d’amour médievales (Rodica Stanciu Capota)Dreamwalker (J. D. Oswald)- Royal Assassin (Robin Hobb)
- Inferno (Dan Brown)
- Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
Exercises de style (Raymond Queneau)The Fork, the Witch and the Worm (Christopher Paolini)21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Yuval Noah Harari)Mademoiselle Scaramouche (Jean Michel Payet)La socialisation (Muriel Darmon)
So this means I’ve read 24/29 books from my list this year. And some of them were quite consistent.
What excites me most is having read all in a year Sarah J. Maas’s whole 8-book series A Throne of Glass, and it has become my favourite series (and author) yet.
On a side note, I find that many of the books, and this great series in particular, very inspiring for my own creative process. For once, I actually invested time in worldbuilding and plotting ahead. I’ve been starting to put some distance between myself and my comfort zone which is being a discovery writer and just going with the flow. And to my surprise, it can be just as much fun!
To cut to the chase, I wish you a happy 2020, full of great books and inspiration, as 2019 proved to be for me.