my 2021 quarantine reading list

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I'm sure the future 2021 me will be cussing 2020 me out by mid-August, but that's a problem for later.

Since 2020 has brought out the shopaholic in me, I've decided that 2021 will be the year of reading (& re-reading) books I already own. Including books I bought this December that I haven't read yet, gifted books I haven't touched since the day I received them, and books I can read one hundred times over. I've compiled a list of 24 books: 12 poetry collections and 12 novels/memoirs to read through in the New Year.

However, creating a plan means nothing without any accountability, so I'm sharing it here to haunt me throughout 2021. All the books on my list will be linked if you would like to read along with me.

Here is what I will be reading (& re-reading) in 2021 ...

Novels & Memoirs

• transcription - kate atkinson // first read

• the last time they met - anita shreve // first read

• persuasion - jane austen // first read

• and then there were none - agatha christie // re-read

• the subtle art of not giving a f*ck - mark manson // first read

• the president is missing - james patterson & bill clinton // first read

• sea glass - anita shreve // first read

• becoming - michelle obama // re-read

• jane eyre - charlotte bronte // re-read

• the handmaid's tale - margaret atwood // re-read

• the girl on the train - paula hawkins // re-read

• conviction; the untold story of putting jodi arias behind bars - juan martinez // re-read

Poetry Collections

• autopsy - donte collins // first read

• swallowtail - brenna twohy // first read

• dearly - margaret atwood // first read

• our numbered days - neil hilborn // first read

• mary oliver; new and selected poems - mary oliver // re-read

• confident man, happy man - s. t. tuchin // first read

• if my body could speak - blythe baird // first read

• a psalm for us - reyna biddy // re-read

• night sky with exit wounds - ocean vuong // re-read

• the only worlds we know - michael lee // first read

• i shimmer sometimes, too - porsha olayiwola // first read

• date & time - phil kaye // first read

Let me know what you'll be reading in 2021!

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Hope you all have an incredible New Year, wish me luck!