I LIKE BIG BOOKS AND I CANNOT LIE: 2021 Reading Plan
Do you enjoy reading? I love reading, but I don’t always have time to read as much as I want. Like I said in my social media post, I only have two modes: 1) read the entire book in one sitting or 2) never finish the book. There are some months where I read 5-10 books and some months where I read 0 (and may not even try to!). Last year I read about 60 books.
My favorite genre to read is probably mystery/suspense (often with a little bit of a love story). I don’t love “romance” without mystery or if they are too graphic, and I can’t read horror mystery. Last year I read No Exit by Taylor Adams (which probably isn’t even that bad) and it definitely freaked me out for a few nights…so no Stephen King here! I also like short classics, books that are socially/seasonally relevant, and I LOVE to listen to autobiographies read by the author. Some of my favorite autobiographies are those by Anna Kendrick, Rob Lowe, and Tan France.
At the end of the post, I will share the books (the ones I can remember…) I read last year just in case you like the same types of books and have not read these. This year I picked out a handy dandy book journal for Christmas (thanks, Mom), so I will (hopefully) be much better about keeping track of my reads.
For 2021, I plan on reading a mix of my favorite types of books as outlined above. The “classics” are mostly re-reads, but it’s been far too long since I read them. I don’t generally read books over again (nor do I usually watch most movies a second time…), but it’s been so long since I read some of these books that my memories on the details are FUZZY at best. It is likely that I will read additional books throughout the year that are not on this reading plan, and I’ll continue to share those on my social media stories.
January
Perfect Little Children (Sophie Hannah)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
February
The Wives (Tarryn Fisher)
Exonerated (Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen)
March
The Survivors (Jane Harper)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
April
The Book of Two Ways (Jodi Picoult)
Educated (Tara Westover)
May
The Last to See Her (Courtney Evan Tate)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
June
Under the Rainbow (Celia Laskey)
One by One (Ruth Ware)
July
City of Girls (Elizabeth Gilbert)
Dear Girls (Ali Wong)
August
Invisible Girl (Lisa Jewell)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
September
Pretty Girls (Karin Slaughter)
American Dirt (Jeanine Cummins)
October
Long Bright River (Liz Moore)
The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
November
It Ends With Us (Colleen Hoover)
Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie)
December
In a Holidaze (Christina Lauren)
The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)
Some of My 2020 Reads:
- Evvie Drake Starts Over (Linda Holmes)
- The Other Mrs. Miller (Allison Dickson)
- The Last House Guest and The Girl from Widow Hills (Megan Miranda)
- Confessions on the 7:45 (Lisa Unger)
- Verity (Colleen Hoover)
- Don’t Look for Me (Wendy Walker)
- After Anna (Lisa Scottoline)
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
- Home Before Dark, Lock Every Door, The Last Time I Lied, Final Girls (Riley Sager)
- The Silent Patient (Alex Michaelides)
- The First Mistake (Sandie Jones)
- The Wife Between Us (Greer Hendricks)
- A Reasonable Doubt (Phillip Margolin)
- The Obsession (Nora Roberts)
- The Third Wife and the House We Grew Up In (Lisa Jewell)
- Ghosted (Rosie Walsh)
- The Woman in the Window (A.J. Finn)
- Darling Rose Gold (Stephanie Wrobel)
- Jamison Valley Series (Devney Perry)
- In Pieces (Sally Fields autobiography)
- Everybody’s Got Something (Robin Roberts autobiography)
- This Will Only Hurt a Little (Busy Philipps autobiography)
- Naturally Tan (Tan France autobiography)
- Bride Quartet Series (Nora Roberts)
- Pieces of Her (Karin Slaughter)
- Mistletoe Series and the Christmas Box (Richard Paul Evans)
What is on your reading list for this year?
Katie G.