2023 Is History - Welcome to 2024

 Small Victories 

I ended up reading 25 books last year. My goal was 24. 

What's more, I expanded the reading genres considerably. I generally read mostly poetry, biographies, and memoirs.  This is how my reading broke down :

• Memoir 8
• Novels  7
• Poetry 6
• Historical / Political 2
• Biography 2

Books Read so far this year

 

1. The Tradition - Jericho Brown
2. Deathbed Sext - Christopher Salerno
3. Rough Draft: AMemoir - Katy Tur
4. Lit - Mary Karr
5. Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
6. Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
7. And We Stay - Jenny Hubbard
8. The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
9. Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom - Sylvia Plath
10. The Art of Memoir - Mary Karr
11. Bird Songs in Literature: Bird Songs and the Poems They Have Inspired - Joseph Wood Krutch
12. Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath - Heather Clark
13. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin
14. The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin - Kip Wilson

* these I have finished there are a number I am still reading at this time.