This has taken me forever to put together, but finally it's here! My reflections on the year of reading that was 2019. I reached my reading goal of 60 books just in time! It was an interesting year, mostly because it was terribly uneven. The year started out with a bang (10 books!), but gradually dwindled down until I was reading an average of about 5 books a month. I made an effort to read more writers of color, especially women, and I'm hoping for more of the same next year. Here are a few highlights:

BOOK GOAL: 60

BOOKS READ: 60

NONFICTION: 4

BOOKS BY WOMEN OF COLOR: 23

FAVORITE BOOK(S): Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Augustown by Kei Miller, The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Severance by Ling Ma, The Houseguest by Amparo Davila

LEAST FAVORITE(S): We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, The Wrong Way to Save Your Life by Megan Stielstra, An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon.

LONGEST BOOK: The Institute by Stephen King

SHORTEST BOOK: A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark

FUNNIEST: We are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

SADDEST: The Radium Girls by Kate Moore

MOST OVERRATED: Recursion by Blake Crouch (sorry!)