My Year in Books (2019)

Fats here.

I started 2019 with The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. I hoped that a really good book like that would encourage me to read more. I was doing fine until I was promoted to Assistant Circulation Manager, which happened in mid-February. In July, I was accepted into Leadership Wooster, a 10-month leadership training headed by the Wooster Area Chamber of Commerce. Last November, I joined the Fantasy Fiction Fanatics Book Club in our library. All of these on top of Game Night with friends every third Saturday of the month. So, yeah, I was not exactly motivated to read.

Today’s post will focus on my 2019 Reading Challenge on Goodreads and a round-up of my #WomenReadWomen2019. I’m happy to say that I reached and surpassed my goal of 86 books this year. I gave up logging my books after August, so the total count of 125 is actually way off. I also managed to reach my goal of 26 women writers across 10 countries in the world. In fact, I was able to read works of more than 50 female authors in 15 countries. So hooray for that! How did your year in reading go?

#WomenReadWomen2019

COUNTRY	TITLE	AUTHOR	BOOK TYPE
Argentina	Things We Lost in the Fire	Mariana Enriquez	Short Stories
Australia	Isabella’s Garden	Glenda Millard	Picturebook
	Lottie and Walter	Anna Walker	Picturebook
	Running with the Horses	Alison Lester	Picturebook
	The Stone Lion	Margaret Wild	Picturebook
Canada	Hawks Kettle, Puffins Wheel	Susan Vande Griek	Children’s Poetry
	How Emily Saved the Bridge	Frieda Wishinsky	Nonfiction Picturebook
	I Am Small	Qin Leng	Picturebook
	When I Found Grandma	Saumiya Balasubramaniam	Picturebook
Croatia	Princesses on the Run	Smiljana Coh	Picturebook
France	A Drop of the Sea	Ingrid Chabbert	Picturebook
	The Day I Became a Bird	Ingrid Chabbert	Picturebook
	The Last Tree	Ingrid Chabbert	Picturebook
	Waves	Ingrid Chabbert	Graphic Novel
Germany	A Year in Our New Garden	Gerda Muller	Picturebook
Israel	The Neighbors	Einat Tsarfati	Picturebook
Italy	Tallulah, the Tooth Fairy CEO	Dr. Tamara Pizzoli	Picturebook
Lithuania	The Fox on the Swing	Evelina Daciute	Picturebook
Nigeria	What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky	Lesley Nneka Arimah	Short Stories
Scotland	Sweep	Louise Greig	Picturebook
Sweden	Never Goodnight	Coco Moodysson	Graphic Novel
Switzerland	I Am the Brother of XX	Fleur Jaeggy	Short Stories
	Nylon Road	Parsua Bashi	Graphic Memoir
United Kingdom	Camouflage	Dr. Sarah Bargiela	Graphic Nonfiction
	Drawn from Nature	Helen Ahpornsiri	Nonfiction Picturebook
	Hello	Fiona Woodcock	Picturebook
	Quiet Girl in a Noisy World	Debbie Tung	Graphic Novel
	Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth	Warsan Shire	Poetry
	The Crayon Man	Natascha Biebow	Nonfiction Picturebook
	The Girls	Lauren Ace	Picturebook
	The Tide	Clare Helen Welsh	Picturebook
	The Truth About Grandparents	Elina Ellis	Picturebook
	When Sadness is at Your Door	Eva Eland	Picturebook
United States	A Big Mooncake for Little Star	Grace Lin	Picturebook
	All the Names They Used for Gods	Anjali Sachdeva	Short Stories
	All the Stars Denied	Guadalupe Garcia McCall	Middle Grade
	Alma and How She Got Her Name	Juana Martinez-Neal	Picturebook
	Betty Before X	Ilyasah Shabazz	Middle Grade
	Bold and Brave	Kirsten Hillibrand	Nonfiction Picturebook
	Electric Arches	Eve L. Ewing	Poetry
	Florida	Lauren Groff	Short Stories
	Good Bones	Maggie Smith	Poetry
	Hello Lighthouse	Sophie Blackall	Picturebook
	Honor Girl	Maggie Thrash	Graphic Memoir
	How Long ‘Til Black Future Month	N.K. Jemisin	Short Stories
	I’m Too Young To Be Seventy and Other Delusions	Judith Viorst	Poetry
	Lights! Camera! Alice!	Mara Rockliff	Nonfiction Picturebook
	My Heart	Corinna Luyken	Picturebook
	Planting Stories	Anika Aldamuy Denise	Nonfiction Picturebook
	Revolution	Deborah Wiles	Middle Grade
	Six Months, Three Days, Five Others	Charlie Jane Anders	Short Stories
	Spinning	Tillie Walden	Graphic Memoir
	Thank You, Omu!	Oge Mora	Picturebook
	Tomorrow is Waiting	Kiley Frank	Picturebook
	We Are the Gardeners	Joanna Gaines, et al	Picturebook
			Total Countries: 15
			Total Authors: 52