Here’s a fun (read: discouraging) activity: go through your entire owned TBR list and count just how many books you thought you would have read by now but haven’t. I don’t consider my book collection huge by any means, but I was astounded to find that I have 56 books currently sitting on my shelves that I had every intention of reading this year. Although I will be carrying them into 2020, I’m declaring now that any books on this list that I haven’t read by the end of 2020 will be donated. In my opinion, there’s no reason to hoard stacks and stacks of books that remain unread year after year, so in order to keep my number of unread books low, I made the list below.
See the below list for all of the books I currently own and have not read – and plan to read within the next year. This list does not contain the 12 books I plan to read in December (read that post here), but it does contain all of the others.
Classics (8)
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Hatchet – Gary Paulson
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Metamorphasis – Franz Kafka
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee
Contemporaries (9)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
It Ends With Us – Colleen Hoover
Peak – Roland Smith
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants – Ann Brashares
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood – Ann Brashares
Girls in Pants – Ann Brashares
Forever in Blue – Ann Brashares
Truly Madly Guilty – Liane Moriarty
Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
Dystopias (1)
The Limit – Kristen Landon
Fantasies (1)
Carry On – Rainbow Rowell
Historical Fictions (3)
Phantoms in the Snow – Kathleen Benner Duble
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
Mystery/Thrillers (10)
All the Missing Girls – Megan Miranda
Good as Gone – Amy Gentry
Pictures in the Dark – Gillian Cross
The Casual Vacancy – J.K. Rowling
The Crossing Places – Elly Griffiths
The Cuckoo’s Calling – Robert Galbraith
The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo – Stieg Larsson
The Lying Game – Ruth Ware
The Silent Wife – A.S.A. Harrison
Nonfictions (6)
Attached – Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
Blue Like Jazz – Donald Miller
Good to Great – Jim Collins
The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands – Dr. Laura Schlessinger
The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
Think and Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
Poetry (1)
Where the Sidewalk Ends – Shel Silverstein
Science Fiction (1)
Do You Dream of Terra-Two? – Temi Oh
Sports (16)
A Coach’s Life – Dean Smith
Beyond Basketball – Mike Krzyzewski
Cubs Essential – Lew Freedman
Gold Dust – Chris Lynch
Hate Mail From Cheerleaders – Rick Reilly
Million Dollar Throw – Mike Lupica
One Yard Short – Les Steckel and Rob Suggs
Our Boys – Joe Drape
QB1 – Mike Lupica
Quiet Strength – Tony Dungy
The 33-Year-Old Rookie – Chris Coste
The Boy Who Saved Baseball – John H. Ritter
The Jordan Rules – Sam Smith
The Power of Negative Thinking – Bob Knight
Toughness – Jay Bilas
Travel Team – Mike Lupica
I would love input as to which of these books I should prioritize and read right away in 2020. Let me know if you have read any of them and your thoughts! If not, what are the top books you own and want to get to at some point in 2020?
