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Reading List 2018

I always do an exercise of thankfulness at the end of the year. I try to remember things that were good for me in order to gain some track to start a new year with strength and passion. This 2018 has been a year with a lot of good reading. I read a total of 47 books. Almost a book per week. If you want to read the list, here it is. I will update my Goodreads these days.


Fiction

Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers (My favorite of the year)

The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald

Believers by Charles Baxter

Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote

Being There by Jerzy Kosinski

Train Dreams: A Novella by Denis Johnson

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

True Grit, by Charles Portis

The Courage Consort by Michel Faber

Eden Springs by Laura Kasischke

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Serena by Ron Rash

Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

Long Ride Home by Tawni Waters

American in Translation by Concha Alborg

Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly

Ash by Malindo Lo

Challenger Deep by Meal Shusterman

Highly Illogical Behavior by J.C. Whaley

I Crawl Through It by A.S. King

Liar by Justine Larbalestier

Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz

Speak by Lauri Halse Anderson

There is No Long Distance Now by N.S. Nye

When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds

No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

50 over 50 by Carla Spataro



Non Fiction

No Plot? No Problem! Chris Baty

The 90-day novel Alan Watt

Foundations of Financial Management

Branding Yourself Erik Deckers

A Theory of Adaptation by Linda Hutcheon

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky by Jennifer Steil

Who Will Speak for America? Edited by Nathaniel Popkin (My first book published in the U.S.!)

The Artful Edit by Susan Bell

Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook by Donal Maass

Danger on the Page by Brian Shawver

Self Editing for Fiction Writers by Renny Browne

Wonderbook by Jeff VanderMeer

Literary Disruptions by Jerome Klinkowitz


Poetry

No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay

Oh God Get Out Get Out by Bill Moran

When the World Breaks Open by Seema Reza

The Last Bus to Camden by Rocky Wilson

Self Evident Poems by Guy Bennet (Favorite Poetry Book 2018)







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