While listening to an episode of the What Should I Read Next podcast, Anne Bogel had a guest on her show that was focusing on reading one author a month. I would like to challenge myself in 2019 to do the same. I have a lot of books on my TBR shelf that are by certain authors that I haven’t read or have read very little. I have made a list of authors I would like to read with a few book titles to choose from. I don’t expect to read all of the following books, as I have other books to read for book clubs, etc., but I feel this will at least help me become a bit more familiar with authors I keep hearing so much about.
January: Zadie Smith
- White Teeth √
- On Beauty √
- Swing Time √
- Feel Free: Essays √
- The Embassy of Cambodia
February: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (I thought this would be a good pick for African-American History Month)
- Americanah √
- We Should All Be Feminists √
- Half of a Yellow Sun
- Purple Hibiscus √
- Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions √
March: David McCullough
- The Johnstown Flood √
- John Adams
- The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris √
- The Wright Brothers √
- The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 √
April: Margaret Atwood
- Oryx and Crake √
- Blind Assassin √
- Alias Grace
- Stone Mattress √
- The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus
May: Kurt Vonnegut
- Slaughterhouse-Five √
- Galapagos √
- Breakfast of Champions √
- Welcome to the Monkey House
- Interview w/ Kurt Vonnegut
June: Agatha Christie (I’ve actually read a handful of her mystery novels, but there are so many more I would like to read)
- Murder is Easy √
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles √
- The A.B.C. Murders √
- Murder in Mesopotamia
- Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life
July: Bill Bryson
- Notes from a Small Island √
- The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain √
- Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
- Bill Bryson’s African Diary
- One Summer √
August: Rainbow Rowell
- Fangirl √
- Attachments
- Landline
- Carry On √
- Almost Midnight
September: Stephen King (I read my first ever Stephen King in 2018 and enjoyed it enough that I want to read more)
- Apt Pupil √
- Christine √
- The Body √
- On Writing √
- The Shining √
October: Shirley Jackson
- The Haunting of Hill House √
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle √
- The Lottery √
- Dark Tales
- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
November: Neil Gaiman
- American Gods √
- Coraline √
- Neverwhere
- The Graveyard Book √
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane
December: Kristin Hannah
- The Nightingale
- The Great Alone
- Fly Away √
- Winter Garden
- Night Road
I am really looking forward to diving into these works by these amazing authors! What are your favorite authors? If I continue this reading challenge in future years, what authors should be on my list?
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Great lists! The King one is especially ambitious. I think It and The Stand together make well over 2,000 pages.
LOL…yeah…I may only get one King book read that month.
This challenge is such a great idea. I have completed works of some authors and never pick them up. It is a pity I heard about this challenge when I have already set my goals for a year.
Maybe start compiling a list of authors this year and do the challenge next year. It is going well for me so far this year, so I may continue it next year.