Reading List 2019

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The resolution is to read 50 books this year. I've divided them up into categories/sub-goals.

For the "World fiction" section, authors count if they are from anywhere other than Canada, USA, or England. "Misc" section is for anything that doesn't fit the set categories. Repeating authors will be avoided until 10 from the section they apply to is reached.

Visual list can be found at Goodreads.

Additional notation:
[*] Would read again
[GN] Graphic novel/comic/manga
[E] E-book
[A] Audiobook
[R] Re-read
[L] Library book
[FNMI] First Nations/Metis/Inuit author (in sections other than FNMI prose fiction)
[CA] Canadian Author (in sections other than Canadian prose fiction)
[WO] World Author (in sections other than world prose fiction)

Nonfiction
01. Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times - Alan Walker. Jan 28. [*][L]
02. Debussy: A Painter in Sound - Stephen Walsh. Feb 15. [L]
03. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo. Feb 15. [L][WO]
04. Dead Reckoning: The Untold Story of the Northwest Passage - Ken McGoogan. Apr 09. [CA][*]
05. Spark Joy - Marie Condo. April 25. [L][WO]
06. This one looks like a boy: My gender journey to life as a man - Lorimer Shenher. Aprul 30. [CA][L][*]
07. A Concise History of Sweden - Neil Kent. Finished May 02.
08. The Peredvizhniki: Pioneers of Russian Painting - Jackson & Hedström. Finished June 27. [L/ILL] [*]
09. The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed The World - Mason Funk. Finished July 04. [L]
10. Indecent Advances: A hidden history of true crime and prejudice before Stonewall - JamesPolchin [L]
11. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women - Kate Moore. Finished Aug 20. [L][*]
12. Queers Were Here: Heroes and Icons of Queer Canada - Robin Ganev & RJ Gilbour. Finished Aug 23. [L][CA]
13. The Man Who Lived With A Giant: Stories from Johnny Neyelle, Dene Elder - Alana Fletcher & Morris Neyelle. Finished August 28. [L][FNMI]
14. For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War - Timothy C Winegard. Finished Aug 29. [L][FNMI]
15. Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You - Kathryn Gonzales and Karen Rayne. Finished Sept 17. [L]
16. Grass - Keum Suk Gendry-Kim. Finished Sep 28. [WO][L][GN]
17. In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond - Robert D Kaplan. Finished Oct 01. [L]
18. Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe - William Rosen. Finished Oct 30. [L][*]
19. Victory at Vimy - Ted Barris. Finished Nov 11.
20. The Man with the Black Valise: Tracking the Killer of Jessie Keith - John Goddard. Finished Nov 26. [L][CA]
21. The Little Book of Hygge - Meik Wiking. Finished Nov 29. [L]
22. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning - Margareta Magnusson. Finished Dec 05. [L]
23. Eating My Way Through Italy - Elizabeth Minchilli. Finished Dec 24. [L]
24. Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living - Linnea Dunne. [L]

Poetry
01. North Wood - Maryse Meijer. Finished Jan 17. [P][L]
02. Things that keep and do not change - Susan Musgrave. Finished Mar 16. [L][CA]
03. River Woman - Katherena Vermette. [FNMI]
04. Dolefully a rampart stands - Paige Ackerson-Kiely. Finished May 23. [L]
05. Broken Vessel: Thirty-Five Days in the Desert - Harry Thurston. [CA]
06. Iced Water - John Unrau. Finished June 12. [CA][L][*]
07. The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain - Han Shan. Finished July 01. [L][WO][*]
08. Drolleries - Cassidy McFaszean. Finished July 03. [L][CA]
09. Little Red - Kerry Gilbert. Finished July 05. [L][CA]
10. Hymnswitch - Ali Blythe. Finished July 17. [L][CA]

First Nations/Metis/Inuit Prose Fiction
01. Trickster Drift - Eden Robinson. Mar 21. [L][*]
02. Monkey Beach - Eden Robinson. May 29. [L][*]
03. Bad Endings - Carleigh Baker. Finished July 08. [L][*]
04. Motorcycles and Sweetgrass - Drew Hayden Taylor. Finished July 12. [L][*]
05. Fall From Grace - Wayne Arthurson. Finished July 22. [L]
06. The Death of Bernadette Lefthand - Ron Querry. Finished Sept 02. [L][*]
07. Trail of Lightning - Rebecca Roanhoarse. Finished September 09. [L]
08. Split Tooth - Tanya Tagaq. Finished September 10. [L]
09. Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice. Finished September 12. [L][*]
10. Annie Muktuk and Other Stories - Norma Dunning. Finished September 27. [L]
11. Chasing Painted Horses - Drew Hayden Taylor. Finished Nov 28. [L][*]

Canadian Prose Fiction
01. A Discovery of Strangers - Rudy Wiebe. Finished Jan 19.
02. By Gaslight - Steven Price. Finished Mar 11. [L]
03. Bad Ideas - Missy Marston. Finished June 06. [L]
04. A Bird in the House - Margaret Laurence. Finished June 26. [L][*]
05. Shut Up, You're Pretty - Tea Mutonji. Finished June 28. [L]
06. The Green Hotel - Jesse Gilmour. Finished July 16. [L]
07. The Case Against Owen Williams - Allan Donaldson. Finished July 26. [L]
08. Kalyna - Pam Clark. Finished August 07. [L]
09. The Bootlegger's Confession - Allan Levine. Finished August 22. [L]
10. Vancouver Noir - Edited by Sam Wiebe. Finished September 06. [L]

World Prose Fiction
01. Macbeth - Jo Nesbø. Norway. Finished January 15. [L]
02. Such a Lonely, Lovely Road - Kagiso Lesego Molope. South Africa/Canada. Finished Jan 18. [L]
03. Don't Look Back - Karin Fossum. Norway. Finished Feb 01.
04. Mouthful of Birds - Samanta Schweblin. Argentina. Finished Feb 18. [L]
05. The Frangipani Tree Mystery - Ovidia Yu. Singapore. Finished Feb 20. [L][*]
06. The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo. Malaysia. Finished Mar 27. [L]
07. Death is Hard Work - Khaled Khalifa. Syria. Finished Apr 02. [L]
08. Zuleikha - Guzel Yakhina. Russia. Finished May 14. [L][*]
09. Flowers of Mold - Ha Seong-Nan. South Korea. Finished June 11. [L]
10. Britt-Marie Was Here - Fredrik Backman. Sweden. Finished June 24. [L]
11. The Wolf and the Watchman - Niklas Natt och Dag. Sweden. Finished August 11. [L]
12. The Bishop's Bedroom - Piero Chiara. Italy. Finished Dec 12. [L]

Misc Prose Fiction
01. Psycho - Robert Bloch. Finished Feb 03. [L]
02. The Thief - Megan Whalen Turner. Finished Feb 06. [L][*]
03. The Queen of Attolia - Megan Whalen Turner. Finished Feb 27. [L][*]
04. The King of Attolia - Megan Whalen Turner. Finished Mar 19. [L][*]
05. A Conspiracy of Kings - Megan Whalen Turner. Finished Mar 29. [L][*]
06. Raising Steam - Terry Pratchett. Finished Apr 20.
07. Thick as Thieves - Megan Whalen Turner. Finished May 02. [L][*]
08. Bird Box - Joash Malerman. Finished May 22. [L][*]
09. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek - Kim Michele Richardson. Finished Sept 20. [A][L]
10. The Girls in the Garden - Lisa Jewell. Finished Oct 08. [L][A]
11. Doctor Sleep - Stephen King. Finished Oct 08. [L][*
12. Keep Your Friends Close - Paula Daly. Finished Oct 16. [L][A]
13. Clear My Name - Paula Daly. Finished Oct 18. [L][A]
14. Dracula - Bram Stoker. Finished Oct 18. [R][*]
15. The Facts of Life and Death - Belinda Baur. Finished Oct 23. [L][A]
16. Open Your Eyes - Paula Daly. Finished Oct 28. [L][A]
17. The House We Grew Up In - Lisa Jewell. Finished Oct 31. [L][A]
18. The Third Wife - Lisa Jewell. Finished Nov 02. [L][A]
19. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen. Finished Nov 03. [L][*]
20. Just what kind of mother are you? - Paula Daly. [L][A]
21. The Trophy Child - Paula Daly. [L][A]
22. I found you - Lisa Jewell. [L][A]
23. The Lie of You - Jane Lythell. [L][A]
24. Owl at Home - Arnold Lobel. [L][*]
25. Buyan: The Isle of the Dead - Etxeberria & Trueba [L][GN]
26. The Beautiful Dead - Belinda Bauer. [L][A]
27. A Midnight Clear - Various authors. [L]