Reading List 2020

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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. Winterlust: Finding Beauty in the Fiercest Season - Bernd Brunner. Finished January 15. [L][WO]
02. Empire of the Deep: The Rise and Fall of the British Navy - Ben Wilson. Finished Feb 04. [*]
03. The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny - Daisy Dunn. Finished Feb 16. [L]
04. The Stars in our Pockets: Getting Lost and Sometimes Found in the Digital Age - Howard Axelrod. Finished Feb 18. [L]
05. Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words - Boel Westin. Finished April 22. [*]
06. Sweden in the Seventeenth Century - Paul Douglas Lockhart. Finished April 29.
07. Pink Blood: Homophobic Violence in Canada - Douglas Victor Janoff. Finished Jun 08.
08. Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation - Serhy Yekelchyk. Finished June 26.
09. Hyperbole and a Half - Allie Brosh. Finished June 27. [L][GN]
10. Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride From Hell - Tom Clavin. Finished Aug 14. [L]
11. The Hilarious World of Depression - John Moe. Finished Aug 22. [L]
12. Zodiac - Robert Graysmith. Finished Sep 15. [L]
13. Altitude - Olivier Bocquet and Jean-Marc Rochette. [GN][L][*]
14. The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks - Igort. Finished Sep 27.
15. A Tangled Web - Leslie Rule. Finished Sep 30. [L]

Poetry
01. Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers - Jake Skeets. Finished Jan 07. [L][FNMI]
02. The House the Spirit Builds - Lorna Crozier. Finished Jan 20. [L][CA][*]
03. Encyclopedia of a Broken Heart - Jon Lupin. Finished Jan 30. [L][CA]
04. Paradise Lost - John Milton. Finished Jan 31.
05. Crow Gulch - Douglas Walbourne-Gough. Finished Jan 31. [L][CA][*]
06. Air Salt: A Trauma Memoire as a Result of the Fall - Ian Kinney. Finished Feb 25. [L][CA]
07. The Half-Finished Heaven - Tomas Tranströmer. Finished Aug 18. [*]
08. She Wears Pain Like Diamongs - Alfa. Finished Aug 26. [L]
09. Bones - Tyler Pennock. Finished Sept 03. [L][*]
10. Glass Float - Jane Munro. Finished Sep 10. [L][CA]

First Nations/Metis/Inuit Prose Fiction
01. The Red Chesterfield - Wayne Arthurson. Finished March 01. [L]
02. Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience - Monique Gray Smith. Finished March 01. [L]
03. Ragged Company - Richard Wagamese. Finished Mar 17. [L][*]
04. DreadfulWater - Hartley Goodweather (Thomas King). Finished July 02. [L]
05. Birdie - Tracey Lindberg. Finished Oct 09. [L]
06. The Red Power Murders - Hartley Goodweather (Thomas King). Finished Nov 08. [L]
07. Crooked Hallelujah - Kelli Jo Ford. Finished Nov 10. [L]
08. Blood Red Summer - Wayne Arthurson. Finished Nov 17. [L]
09. Storm of Locusts - Rebecca Roanhorse. Finished Nov 21. [L]
10. LaRose - Louise Erdrich. Finished Dec 06. [L][*]
11. Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Finished Dec 17. [L]

Canadian Prose Fiction
01. Bitter Lake - Marika Deliyannides. Finished Jan 29. [L]
02. The Melting Queen - Bruce Cinnamon. Finished Mar 03. [L][*]
03. The Brutal Telling - Louise Penny. Finished July 12.
04. Watermark - Christy Ann Conlin. Finished July 16. [L][*]
05. Be My Love - Kit Pearson. Finished July 18. [L]
06. Ridgerunner - Gil Adamson. Finished Sept 02. [L][*]
07. Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club - Megan Gail Coles. Finished Sep 25. [L]
08. In Search of the Perfect Singing Flamingo - Claire Tacon. Finished Sep 27. [L][A]
09. Puppet - Joy Fielding. Finished Oct 09. [L][A]
10. Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Finished Oct 13. [L][*]
11. Salvage - Stephen Maher. Finished Oct 26. [L]
12. Every Little Piece of Me - Amy Jones. Finished Nov 04. [L][*]

World Prose Fiction
01. The Story of a Goat - Perumal Murugan. India. Finished Jan 17. [L]
02. Welcome to the Pine Away Motel and Cabins - Katarina Bivald. Sweden. Finished Jan 24. [L][*]
03. Snowblind - Ragnar Jónasson. Iceland. Finished Feb 06. [L]
04. The Black Cathedral - Marcial Gala. Cuba. Finished Mar 04. [L]
05. Amnesty - Aravind Adiga. India/Australia. Finished Mar 09. [L]
06. Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset. Norway. Finished May 25. [*]
07. Egil's Saga - attributed to Snorri Sturluson. Iceland. Finished June 11.
08. The Husband's Secret - Liane Moriarty. Australia. Finished July 01. [L][A]
09. The Immortals of Tehran - Ali Araghi. Iran. Finished July 29. [L][*]
10. The Law of Lines - Hye-Young Pyun. Korea. Finished Sept 07. [L][*]

Misc Prose Fiction
01. The Pride of Chanur - CJ Cherryh. Finished Jan 03. [L][*]
02. One Hit Wonder - Lisa Jewell. Finished Jan 08. [L][A][*]
03. Chanur's Venture - CJ Cherryh. Finished Jan 09. [L]
04. Rubbernecker - Belinda Bauer. Finished Jan 10. [L][A]
05. The Kif Strike Back - CJ Cherryh. Finished Jan 14. [L][*]
06. The Marriage Clock - Zara Raheem. Finished Feb 09. [L][*]
07. The Decent Inn of Death - Rennie Airth. Finished Feb 21. [L]
08. In the Shadow of Vesuvius - Tasha Alexander. Finished Feb 28. [L]
09. Roommates Wanted - Lisa Jewell. Finished Mar 03. [L][*][A]
10. Chill of Fear - Kay Hooper. Finished Mar 23.
11. The Republic of Thieves - Scott Lynch. Finished April 07. [*]
12. The Snow Killer - Ross Greenwood. Finished April 07. [L][A]
13. The Flight Girls - Noelle Salazar. Finished April 18. [L][A]
14. Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman. Finished April 24. [E][L]
15. The Stranger from the Sea - Paul Binding. Finished May 07. [L][A][*]
16. Finding the Grain - Wynn Malone. Finished May 10. [L][E]
17. The Making of Us - Lisa Jewell. Finished June 12. [L][A][*]
18. The Halcyon Fairy Book - T. Kingfisher. Finished June 20. [R]
19. The Silent Wife - A. S. A. Harrison. Finished Jul 12. [L][A]
20. Carry the One - Carol Anshaw. Finished Jul 29. [L][A]
21. Hunted - Darcy Coates. Finished August 05. [L]
22. The Interestings - Meg Wolitzer. Finished Aug 15. [L][A]
23. The Silence - Susan Allott. Finished Aug 18. [L]
24. The Vacationers - Emma Straub. Finished Aug 26. [L][A]
25. Friendship - Emily Gould. Finished Sept 02. [L][A]
26. If you left - Ashley Prentice Norton. Finished Sept 08. [L][A]
27. Reunion - Hannah Pittard. Finished Ep 20. [L][A]
28. The Woman in the Lake - Nicola Cornick. Finished Oct 23. [L][A]
29. The Living Dead - George Romero & Daniel Kraus. Finished Oct 31. [L]
30. The Third Girl - Nell Goddin. Finished Nov 11. [L][A]
31. The Luckiest Woman Ever - Nell Goddin. Finished Nov 22. [L][A]
32. Return of the Thief - Megan Whalen Turner. Finished Nov 26. [L][*]
33. The Prisoner of Castillac - Nell Godin. FInished Dec 03. [L][A]
34. The Ghost Tree - Christina Henry. Finished Dec 15. [L]
35. Murder for Love - Nell Goddin. Finished Dec 15. [L][A]
36. The Lion's Den - Katherine St John. Finished Dec 22. [L]
37. The Moon is Down - John Steinbeck. Finished Dec 24. [L][*]
38. Bedfellow - Jeremy C Shipp. Finished Dec 28. [L]
39. The Chateau Murder - Nell Goddin. [L][A]