I had a goal to read fifty books this year and I didn’t make it. I tried though, and I came pretty close. I’m counting forty eight books I read this year. Here’s my list.
- Sea Child, Carol Nicolas
- Speaking in Tungs, Karla Jay
- Dark Age America, John Michael Greer
- Lonely Street, Steve Brewer
- Coronam 2, of Civilized, Saved, and Savages, Johnny Worthen
- Dandelion Iron, Aaron Michael Ritchey
- The Invitation, Oriiah Mountain Dreamer
- The Occult Book, John Michael Greer
- Centennial, John Michener
- Golden Compass, Phillip Pullman
- The Long Descent, John Michael Greer
- Cruce Roosters, Brent Michael Kelley
- Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
- The Half Has Never Been Told, Edward E. Baptist
- Tiger Shrimp Tango, Tim Dorsey
- A Year of the Monkeys, (various)
- Shark Skin Suite, Tim Dorsey
- Coconut Cowboy, Tim Dorsey
- Goldfinger, Ian Flemming
- Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
- Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Spillover, David Quammen
- Go Tell it On the Mountain, James Baldwin
- Monster in the Shadows, Paul Atreides
- Love on Location, September Roberts
- Pope of Palm Beach, Tim Dorsey
- Everyday Witchcraft, Deborah Blake
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
- Are you there God, it’s me Margaret? Judy Blume
- Gold Coast, Elmore Leonard
- Coronam 3, of Heroes, Homes, and Honey, Johnny Worthen
- Red Rising, Pierce Brown
- Golden Son, Pierce Brown
- Fiction Can Be Murder, Becky Clark
- The Compound Effect, Darren Hardy
- All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
- Johnny Get Your Gun, Dalton Trumbo
- Million Dollar Productivity, Kevin, J. Anderson
- Morning Star, Pierce Brown
- Rubberneck, Victor O’Neil
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
- Clownfish Blues, Tim Dorsey
- In the Wake of Captain Lord, Johnny Worthen
- The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
- Freak Kingdom, Timothy Denevi
- Factfulness, Hans Rosling
- Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
- Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, ’72, Hunter S. Thompson
Total: 48
Some were audiobooks, others kindle, word documents and my favorite—supple bound paper, sensual and crisp.
My goal is to do better next year, but I'm pretty proud of this one.
LIVE IN LETTERS ya’ll!
Happy New Year!
Love,
Johnny :-)