2020 Reading Plans

Well, after being really conservative with my 2019 reading plans, I'm getting bold with the plan for 2020, which is to say that this year I plan to finish reading the Top 100. I don't love announcing that because it feels like a dare to the universe to get in the way of this plan, but I also don't want to beat around the bush anymore. I have ten books from The List left to read. I can do this.

Before we get into my plans, take a look at last year's list (minus the Top 100 books I had included). As usual, items that I read or discarded are struck out.
  1. Annual Shakespeare play (feeling a little awkward that I made this official last year and then entirely failed to do it, but oh well)
  2. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
  3. Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew
  4. Dune by Frank Herbert
  5. Elven Star by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
  6. Golden Witchbreed by Mary Gentle
  7. Hild by Nicola Griffith
  8. HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
  9. Into the Forest by Mark Z. Danielewski
  10. Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
  11. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
  12. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
  13. Little, Big by John Crowley
  14. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  15. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
  16. Nexus: Ascension by Robert Boyczuk
  17. Possession by A. S. Byatt
  18. Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente
  19. The Revolutions by Felix Gilman
  20. A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
  21. Spindle's End by Robin McKinley
  22. This Word Now by Owen and Jodi Egerton
  23. Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
  24. Wild Rose by Sharon Butala

For 2020, I have the usual mixture of List books and also books that are on my unread bookshelf. I'll be including six spots for book club books on my so-called "TBR Bingo" again, plus the following 32 books. Two of these won't fit on the bingo card, so I've omitted the two books that I think I'm least likely to actually get to this year, as I race to the finish line of The List.

I'll put these in alphabetical order again. New additions are bold as usual, and I've underlined the Top 100.

As for the rest, here they are in alphabetical order by title, because I love to just keep arbitrarily mixing this list up:
  1. Annual Shakespeare play
  2. Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
  3. Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew
  4. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  5. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
  6. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
  7. The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
  8. Dune by Frank Herbert
  9. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
  10. Fire Sea by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
  11. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  12. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  13. Golden Witchbreed by Mary Gentle
  14. HMS Surprise by Patrick O'Brian
  15. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
  16. Little, Big by John Crowley
  17. The Little Mermaid and Other Stories by Hans Christian Andersen
  18. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  19. Mandelbrot the Magnificent by Liz Ziemska
  20. Middlemarch by George Eliot
  21. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
  22. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  23. Possession by A. S. Byatt
  24. Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente
  25. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
  26. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
  27. This Word Now by Owen and Jodi Egerton
  28. Ulysses by James Joyce
  29. Villette by Charlotte Brontë
  30. Wild Rose by Sharon Butala
  31. The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer
  32. The Year's Best SF edited by Gardner Dozois


Wish me luck and let me know what your reading plans are for the year!
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