Monthly Reading 2018


I decided to try and do something to organize my reading for the new year and I thought reading topics for each month might be fun. I usually enjoy Non-fiction November, so why not expand that idea to the rest of the year. These are the topics I came up with and some books I should like to read for each topic. I don't necessarily plan on reading all the books for each month, but it's fun to have something to start with. Feel free to join me on this topical reading quest and if you have any recommendation please leave them in the comments.


JAZZY JANUARY (historical fiction from the jazz age)
FEMINIST FEBRUARY
MOTIVATIONAL MARCH
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine
We should all the feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Getting things done by David Allen
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Girls will be girls by Emer O’Toole
Start by Jon Acuff
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Do it like a woman by Caroline Criado-Pérez
Quiet by Susan Cain
Speak Easy, Speak Love by McKelle George
The Feminist Utopia Project by Alexandra Brodsky
Achieve Anything in just one year by Jason Harvey
AMERICAN APRIL
MIGRANT MAY (about displaced people)
JOYFUL JUNE (pride month)
Roots by Alex Haley
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
The Sisters of Alameda Street by Lorena Hughes
Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
Maurice by E.M. Forster
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
How the García Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
JINN JULY (fairytales or retellings)
AFRICAN AUGUST
STATESMANSHIP SEPTEMBER
(books about politics)
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
Chavs. The Demonization of the working class by Owen Jones
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
Women and Power by Mary Beard
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
What is Economics by Rosa Luxemburg
OFFBEAT OCTOBER (from small publishers)
NON-FICTION NOVEMBER
CLASSICAL CHRISTMAS
Operation Heartbreak by Duff Cooper
The Genius Factory By David Plotz
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Wilfred and Eileen by Jonathan Smith
An Incomplete Education by Judy Jones
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Emmeline by Judith Rossner
The Aspirin Wars by Charles C. Mann
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
No Surrender by Constance Maud
Reading Lolita in Teheran by Azar Nafisi
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

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