Let's forget the failures of the past, shall we? Yes. We. Are. Forgetting. Now.
Here's what I'm hoping to read this year, while also recognizing that this list invariably changes as new books come out and I get distracted by shiny things:
Ancient Classics (and helpers): Metamorphosis, The Aeneid, The Iliad, The War That Killed Achilles, It's All Greek to Me
Classics: Persuasion, Villette
Biography/Autobiography: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Cleopatra, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century, The Talented Miss Highsmith, Kitchen Confidential
Non-Fiction Travel Tales: Unlikely Destinations: The Lonely Planet Story, All Over the Map
Other Non-Fiction: Unbroken, Outliers
Fiction: An Object of Beauty, Mockingjay, Russian Winter, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Room, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Brightest Star in the Sky
Historical People, Fictionalized: The Red Queen, Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky, The Birth of Venus, Leonardo's Swans, Stealing Athena
For School: The Joy Luck Club, Shakespeare's Henry IV, Persepolis
All I can say is, wow, my taste in books has really changed in the last 10 years.
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