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)