My Reading List For January 2019

Here I lie on my favourite sofa

New Year Day has been fine so far

Trying to read J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye

But my eyes are heavy I don’t know why.

 

The Old Man and the Sea was my final book for last year

The best Ernest Hemmingway classic that’s what I hear

So it seems fitting for me to start with another classic this year

The Catcher in the Rye seems like a good choice yeah.

 

100 is my 2019’s reading target

That works out to 8 to 9 books per month lest I forget

For January six books make up my selection

A few of them fill me with trepidation.

 

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

Intimidating it is to me

1318 pages in length

I wonder how it will end.

 

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

A 720 page book with a hypnotic aura

A touching unconventional love masterpiece

Will it shatter my heart to pieces?

 

The Goldfinch by Donna Tart

A 962 page life-changing work of art

A Pulitzer Prize winner and international bestseller

Hailed as a rare literary page-turner.

 

American Gods is Neil Gaiman’s masterpiece of horror and fantasy

Where mystery satire sex horror and poetic prose hold the readers in ecstasy

A 750-page bestseller that reasserts the enduring importance of fantastic literature

Masterful storytelling with spellbinding rapture.

 

Hailed by Newsday as blindingly good and riveting

Wild Swans by Jung Chang feels so inviting

A 687-page memoir of three women caught in the whirlwind of history

So panoramic and intimate is the story.