Another year, another reading challenge. Last year I pledged to read 20 books in 2019, and I can proudly say that I surpassed my goal by reading and listening to 25 books. My favorites were definitely the biographies – listening to the authors tell you their life stories in their own voice will never get old. I also discovered Chick Lit/Romance author Jasmine Guillory. I don’t think I have anticipated another author’s book release since J.K. Rowling. Other honorable mentions include Candice Carty-Williams with Queenie and The Untelling by Tayari Jones. A few of my reads came from Reese Witherspoon’s book club from Audible, and she has not disappointed me yet. Since I surpassed my goal for 2019, I’m going to increase my 2020 goal to 25 books. I’m already reading one and listening to another, so I am excited to pass this goal as well. Below is the list of books that I read in 2019, in no particular order. What are your reading goals for 2020?
Darkness to Light: A Memoir, by Lamar Odom
Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams
One Day in December, by Josie Silver
The Wedding Date (The Wedding Date #1), by Jasmine Guillory
The Proposal (The Wedding Date #2), by Jasmine Guillory
The Wedding Party (The Wedding Date, #3), by Jasmine Guillory
Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng
Inner Circle, by Evelyn Lozada
Finding Audrey, by Sophie Kinsella
I Owe You One, by Sophie Kinsella
My Not So Perfect Life, by Sophie Kinsella
The Untelling, by Tayari Jones
All We Ever Wanted, by Emily Griffin
Heads of the Colored People, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
The Kept Woman, by Karin Slaughter
An Anonymous Girl, by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen
Lucky Suit, by Lauren Blakely
One Fifth Avenue, by Candace Bushnell
Shook One, by Charlamagne Tha God
The Swans of Fifth Avenue, by Melanie Benjamin
The Guineveres, by Sarah Domet
Where’d You Go Bernadette, by Maria Semple
Nine Perfect Strangers, by Liane Moriarty
Seriously…I’m Kidding, by Ellen Degeneres
Around The Way Girl, by Taraji P. Henson
