2021 Master List

We made it to 2021! Allegedly, at least. Last year I succeeded in reading not quite as many books as I had intended to, but I still read more than I had since 2016, which given everything that happened last year is a huge win. 

This year I am starting out with 101 books on the list. This will increase; I now have a separate google doc where I've been adding books that I want to read but that aren't officially on my to be read list, because I don't own them yet, and also haven't requested them from the library. Even without that, this list will still expand no matter what as a result of book club books and new books by authors who I will always read whatever they publish. However! In addition to having the goal of finishing all 101 of the below books this year, I have a more aggressive one, which is to finish them all within the first six months of the year. This is in part because I feel like I should be able to generally, but also because I expect that the first six months of 2021 will still be fairly locked down for me, and I would like to have goals to focus on that I have some amount of control over. Will I succeed? Who knows, but I'm gonna give it a shot.

I think about 25 or so of the books below have been on every Master List I've created since I started this project in 2016; I would really, really like to read all of those, most of which are at the beginning of this list. 

I am also going to be more aggressive this year about putting aside books that are Not For Me after the first hundred pages or so. Reading is an act of pleasure and of learning for me, and if I'm not getting one or the other (or both, of course) then continuing to try to read a book isn't worth my time.

Here is to reading and other nice things in 2021, which already feels like a bit of a tall order, but I'm going to do my best. 

1. Six of Crows
2. Crooked Kingdom
3. Regeneration
4. The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion
5. Phoenix Extravagant
6. The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows
7. One Life
8. Kidnapped by the Pirate
9. Return of the Thief
10. The Static
11. Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas
12. Semper Fi
13. A Boyfriend for Christmas
14. Empire of Wild
15. She Who Becomes the Sun
16. My Heart is a Chainsaw
17. Passing Strange
18. A Psalm for the Wild-Built