All of the books listed in the above linked article are horror books by diverse authors. The descriptions of them make them all sound wonderful. I’ve added a couple to my TBR list.
Fledgling by Octavia Butler
The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun
Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias
We Cast A Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Good House by Tananarive Due
Pitch Dark by Courtney Alameda
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
The actual question should be, “what kind of bookworm are you?” I did score a 20 here. What about you?
I’ve read 9.
Right now, many bookstores are selling out of several books on anti-racism. Here’s a list of books to choose if you are finding that you have to wait for your book choice to be in stock.
The New York Times put this list out of the best books of 2019. I have read several of them and have several on the TBR list. It’s a long list, but they are really good books.
The Age of Surveillance
Capitalism: The Fight
for a Human Future at
the New Frontier of Power
American SpyBy LAUREN WILKINSON
Antisocial: Online
Extremists, Techno-Utopians,
and the Hijacking of
American ConversationBy ANDREW MARANTZ
Audience of One: Donald
Trump, Television, and
the Fracturing of AmericaBy JAMES PONIEWOZIK.
Bangkok Wakes to RainBy PITCHAYA SUDBANTHAD
BecomingBy MICHELLE OBAMA.
The Beneficiary:
Fortune, Misfortune, and
the Story of My FatherBy JANNY SCOTT
The Body in QuestionBy JILL CIMENT
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story
of the Generic Drug BoomBy KATHERINE EBAN
The British Are Coming:
The War for America,
Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777By RICK ATKINSON.
Cherokee, AmericaBy MARGARET VERBLE.
The Club: Johnson,
Boswell, and the Friends
Who Shaped an AgeBy LEO DAMROSCH.
The Conservative SensibilityBy GEORGE F. WILL.
The Crowded Hour:
Theodore Roosevelt, the
Rough Riders, and the Dawn
of the American CenturyBy CLAY RISEN.
Deaf Republic: PoemsBy ILYA KAMINSKY.
Disappearing EarthBy JULIA PHILLIPS.
Ducks, NewburyportBy LUCY ELLMANN.
The Dutch HouseBy ANN PATCHETT
The Education of an
Idealist: A MemoirBy SAMANTHA POWER
Exhalation: StoriesBy TED CHIANG
Fall: Or, Dodge in HellBy NEAL STEPHENSON.
Fleishman Is in TroubleBy TAFFY BRODESSER-AKNER.
Full Throttle: StoriesBy JOE HILL
Furious Hours: Murder,
Fraud, and the Last
Trial of Harper LeeBy CASEY CEP
GirlBy EDNA O’BRIEN
The GodmotherBy HANNELORE CAYRE. Translated by
Stephanie Smee.
The Gone DeadBy CHANELLE BENZ
Good Talk: A Memoir
in ConversationsBy MIRA JACOB
Grace Will Lead Us Home:
The Charleston Church
Massacre and the Hard,
Inspiring Journey to ForgivenessBy JENNIFER BERRY HAWES
The GrammariansBy CATHLEEN SCHINE
Grand Union: StoriesBy ZADIE SMITH.
Growing Things:
And Other StoriesBy PAUL TREMBLAY
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry,
Eugenics, and the Law That
Kept Two Generations of Jews,
Italians, and Other European
Immigrants Out of AmericaBy DANIEL OKRENT.
Guest House for
Young Widows: Among
the Women of ISISBy AZADEH MOAVENI.
The Heartbeat of Wounded
Knee: Native America
From 1890 to the PresentBy DAVID TREUER.
The HeavensBy SANDRA NEWMAN.
HorizonBy BARRY LOPEZ
How to Be an AntiracistBy IBRAM X. KENDI
How We Fight For Our LivesBy SAEED JONES.
If: The Untold Story of
Kipling’s American YearsBy CHRISTOPHER BENFEY
The Impeachers: The Trial
of Andrew Johnson and
the Dream of a Just NationBy BRENDA WINEAPPLE
In Byron’s Wake: The
Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s
Wife and Daughter: Annabella
Milbanke and Ada LovelaceBy MIRANDA SEYMOUR
In Hoffa’s Shadow: A
Stepfather, a Disappearance
in Detroit, and My
Search for the TruthBy JACK GOLDSMITH
The InstituteBy STEPHEN KING
Know My Name: A MemoirBy CHANEL MILLER
Kochland: The Secret History
of Koch Industries and
Corporate Power in AmericaBy CHRISTOPHER LEONARD.
Last DayBy DOMENICA RUTA.
The Last Whalers: Three
Years in the Far Pacific
With a Courageous Tribe
and a Vanishing Way of LifeBy DOUG BOCK CLARK.
The Lost Art of Scripture:
Rescuing the Sacred TextsBy KAREN ARMSTRONG.
Lost Children ArchiveBy VALERIA LUISELLI.
Lot: StoriesBy BRYAN WASHINGTON.
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay
and a Mother’s Will to SurviveBy STEPHANIE LAND.
Mama’s Last Hug: Animal
Emotions and What They
Tell Us About OurselvesBy FRANS DE WAAL.
Maggie Brown & OthersBy PETER ORNER.
The Man Who Saw EverythingBy DEBORAH LEVY.
Margaret Thatcher:
The Authorized Biography
— Herself AloneBy CHARLES MOORE.
The Mastermind: Drugs.
Empire. Murder. Betrayal.By EVAN RATLIFF.
The Memory PoliceBy YOKO OGAWA. Translated by
Stephen Snyder.
Midnight in Chernobyl: The
Untold Story of the World’s
Greatest Nuclear DisasterBy ADAM HIGGINBOTHAM.
Mostly Dead ThingsBy KRISTEN ARNETT.
Mrs. EverythingBy JENNIFER WEINER.
The NeedBy HELEN PHILLIPS.
The Nickel BoysBy COLSON WHITEHEAD.
Night Boat to TangierBy KEVIN BARRY.
No Visible Bruises: What
We Don’t Know About
Domestic Violence Can Kill UsBy RACHEL LOUISE SNYDER.
Normal PeopleBy SALLY ROONEY.
Nothing to See HereBy KEVIN WILSON.
Now We Shall Be Entirely FreeBy ANDREW MILLER.
The Octopus Museum: PoemsBy BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY.
The Old DriftBy NAMWALI SERPELL.
Optic NerveBy MARÍA GAINZA. Translated by
Thomas Bunstead.
Our Man: Richard
Holbrooke and the End
of the American CenturyBy GEORGE PACKER.
The ParisianBy ISABELLA HAMMAD.
The Problem With
Everything: My Journey
Through the New Culture WarsBy MEGHAN DAUM.
Rabbits for FoodBy BINNIE KIRSHENBAUM.
Red at the BoneBy JACQUELINE WOODSON.
The RevisionersBy MARGARET WILKERSON
SEXTON.
Rusty BrownBy CHRIS WARE.
Say Nothing: A True
Story of Murder and
Memory in Northern IrelandBy PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE.
Separate: The Story of
Plessy v. Ferguson, and
America’s Journey From
Slavery to SegregationBy STEVE LUXENBERG.
The Shadow KingBy MAAZA MENGISTE.
She Said: Breaking the
Sexual Harassment Story That
Helped Ignite a MovementBy JODI KANTOR AND MEGAN
TWOHEY.
She Was Like That:
New and Selected StoriesBy KATE WALBERT.
Solitary: Unbroken by
Four Decades in Solitary
Confinement. My Story of
Transformation and Hope.By ALBERT WOODFOX WITH
LESLIE GEORGE.
SpringBy ALI SMITH.
Stony the Road:
Reconstruction, White
Supremacy, and the
Rise of Jim CrowBy HENRY LOUIS GATES
JR..
The TestamentsBy MARGARET ATWOOD.
Thick: And Other EssaysBy TRESSIE MCMILLAN
COTTOM.
The Topeka SchoolBy BEN LERNER.
The TraditionBy JERICHO BROWN.
Trick Mirror: Reflections
on Self-DelusionBy JIA TOLENTINO.
Underland: A
Deep Time JourneyBy ROBERT MACFARLANE.
The Uninhabitable Earth:
Life After WarmingBy DAVID WALLACE-WELLS.
The Unwinding of the Miracle:
A Memoir of Life, Death, and
Everything That Comes AfterBy JULIE YIP-WILLIAMS.
The War Before the War:
Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle
for America’s Soul From the
Revolution to the Civil WarBy ANDREW DELBANCO.
WestsideBy W.M. AKERS.
What You Have Heard
Is True: A Memoir of
Witness and ResistanceBy CAROLYN FORCHÉ.
Women TalkingBy MIRIAM TOEWS.
Women’s Work: A Reckoning
With Work and HomeBy MEGAN K. STACK.
The Yellow HouseBy SARAH M. BROOM.
I don’t know many of these books, but sometimes you just need an ugly cry. YA is a good genre to use to attempt that level of crying.
According to the above article, these are the twenty best books of all time. I have read many of them, and I pretty much agree on the ones that I have read. It’s a pretty good list.
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
I have a few of these books on my TBR list. According to the article, I should be able to read a book in one sitting. They don’t seem to take into account the size of my bladder or other distractions. I guess I could give some of them a shot, though.
Tiny Imperfections Alli Frank and Asha Youmans
Pizza Girl Jean Kyoung Frazier
If I Had Your Face Frances Cha
The Death of Vivek Oji Akwaeke Emezi
The Jane Austen Society Natalie Jenner
I’ve read a lot of these books mentioned in the above linked article. Some are on the TBR list, and a few I haven’t heard of. I may be working on some of them soon. I hope the library opens for checkouts soon.
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾, Sue Townsend
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
1984, George Orwell
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Dune, Frank Herbert
The Code of the Woosters, PG Wodehouse
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Philip K Dick
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Middlemarch, George Eliot
The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Trial, Franz Kafka
The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
I have most of these books, but I haven’t read most of them. Some of them, yes, I have read them. Some of them I look forward to reading. Some will remain unread for a while.
