(what follows that is a series of statistics regarding this list, and some other things)
- *All the Pretty Horses (1992) by Cormac McCarthy (Jan. 2-6)
- The Crossing (1994) by Cormac McCarthy (Jan. 7-15)
- Cities of the Plain (1998) by Cormac McCarthy (Jan. 17-21)
- No Country for Old Men (2005) by Cormac McCarthy (Jan. 22-24)
- *The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy (Jan. 25-29)
- The Lonesome Bodybuilder (2018) by Yukiko Motoya (Jan. 30-31)
- Lonesome Dove (1985) by Larry McMurtry (Feb. 4-18)
- Outline (2014) by Rachel Cusk (Feb. 18-20)
- Transit (2016) by Rachel Cusk (Feb. 22-25)
- Kudos (2018) by Rachel Cusk (Feb. 26-28)
- Middlemarch (1872) by George Eliot (Mar. 1-15)
- Woods and Clouds Interchangeable (2019) by Michael Earl Craig (Mar. 16-17)
- The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton (1857) by George Eliot (Mar. 18-19)
- The Fourth Dimension (1984) by Rudy Rucker (Mar. 20-25)
- Do the Windows Open? (1997) by Julie Hecht (Mar. 26-28)
- Was This Man a Genius? (2001) by Julie Hecht (Mar. 28-30)
- The Book of Judith (2019) by Willis Plummer (Mar. 31)
- The Unprofessionals (2003) by Julie Hecht (Apr. 2-4)
- Happy Trails to You (2008) by Julie Hecht (Apr. 5-8)
- Sing to It (2019) by Amy Hempel (Apr. 9-10)
- Hark (2019) by Sam Lipsyte (Apr. 11-15)
- *Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) by T. S. Eliot (Apr. 15)
- Poems (1920) by T. S. Eliot (Apr. 16)
- White (2019) by Bret Easton Ellis (Apr. 16-19)
- *The Waste Land (1922) by T. S. Eliot (Apr. 20)
- The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) by Sylvia Plath (Apr. 21-22)
- *The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath (Apr. 23-26)
- *Ariel (1965) by Sylvia Plath (Apr. 28-29)
- Tatlin! (1974) by Guy Davenport (May 3-10)
- In the Year of Long Division (1995) by Dawn Raffel (May 14-15)
- Carrying the Body (2002) by Dawn Raffel (May 16-17)
- Further Adventures in the Restless Universe (2010) by Dawn Raffel (May 20-21)
- The Secret Life of Objects (2012) by Dawn Raffel (May 22-24)
- The Strange Case of Dr. Couney (2018) by Dawn Raffel (May 27-30)
- *Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976) by Raymond Carver (May 31-June 4)
- *What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981) by Raymond Carver (June 4-6)
- Fires (1983) by Raymond Carver (June 7-12)
- Cathedral (1983) by Raymond Carver (June 13-17)
- Elephant (1988) by Raymond Carver (June 18-19)
- Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (2018) by Brian Evenson (June 20-22)
- Better Get Your Angel On (1989) by Jennifer Allen (June 23-24)
- Stardust, 7-Eleven, Route 57, A&W, and So Forth (1992) by Patricia Lear (June 25-27)
- Juliet the Maniac (2019) by Juliet Escoria (June 27-30)
- The Mushroom at the End of the World (2017) by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (July 2-8)
- Other Minds (2016) by Peter Godfrey-Smith (July 9-11)
- Gorillas in the Mist (1983) by Dian Fossey (July 12-17)
- Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson (July 18-21)
- Dark Money (2016) by Jane Mayer (July 22-28)
- Surveillance Valley (2018) by Yasha Levine (July 29-Aug. 2)
- Warm Womb (2019) by Marissa Jezak (Aug. 2)
- Loudermilk (2019) by Lucy Ives (Aug. 3-6)
- This Is Pleasure (2019) by Mary Gaitskill (Aug. 8)
- *Omensetter's Luck (1966) by William H. Gass (Aug. 8-13)
- In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (1968) by William H. Gass (Aug. 15-17)
- Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife (1968) by William H. Gass (Aug. 19)
- The Tunnel (1995) by William H. Gass (Aug. 20-31)
- Where Did the Towers Go? (2010) by Judy Wood (Sept. 1-11)
- Postcards from the Edge (1987) by Carrie Fisher (Sept. 2-4)
- At the Mountains of Madness (1936) by H. P. Lovecraft (Sept. 5-7)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1941) by H. P. Lovecraft (Sept. 8-11)
- The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (1999) by H. P. Lovecraft (Sept. 12-23)
- The Whisperer in Darkness (1931) by H. P. Lovecraft (Sept. 24)
- The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936) by H.P. Lovecraft (Sept. 25)
- The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales (1985) by H. P. Lovecraft (Sept. 27-30)
- The Shadow Out of Time (1936) by H. P. Lovecraft (Oct. 1)
- Dagon and Other Macabre Tales (1965) by H. P. Lovecraft (Oct. 2-8)
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1943) by H. P. Lovecraft (Oct. 9-11)
- H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life (1991) by Michel Houellebecq (Oct. 14-15)
- Whatever (1994) by Michel Houellebecq (Oct. 16-17)
- Lanzarote (2000) by Michel Houellebecq (Oct. 18)
- Serotonin (2019) by Michel Houellebecq (Oct. 20-23)
- The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) by Edgar Allan Poe (Oct. 24-28)
- Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, vol. 1 (1840) by Edgar Allan Poe (Oct. 29-31)
- *White Noise (1985) by Don DeLillo (Nov. 4-7)
- *The Names (1982) by Don DeLillo (Nov. 13-18)
- A Sand Book (2019) by Ariana Reines (Nov. 19-20)
- The Topeka School (2019) by Ben Lerner (Nov. 21-25)
- Sleeveless (2019) by Natasha Stagg (Nov. 25-27)
- Incidental Inventions (2019) by Elena Ferrante (Nov. 27-30)
- The Water Dancer (2019) by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Dec. 2-5)
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) by Frederick Douglass (Dec. 6-8)
- Stamped from the Beginning (2016) by Ibram X. Kendi (Dec. 9-17)
- How to Be an Antiracist (2019) by Ibram X. Kendi (Dec. 18-20)
- Soul on Ice (1968) by Eldridge Cleaver (Dec. 23-25)
- That Christmas Good (2019) by Brandon Brown and J. Gordon Faylor (Dec. 26)
- Pimp (1967) by Iceberg Slim (Dec. 26-31)
# books read: 86
# books read for the first time: 75
# books reread: 11
# books read on average per month: 7.167
# books written by men: 52
# books written by women: 34
# books written by more than one person: 1
# distinct authors: 48
# male authors: 26
# female authors: 22
# nonbinary authors: 0
# novels: 27
# novellas: 9
# short story collections: 18
# memoirs: 4
# essay collections: 2
# books of nonfiction: 15
# books of poetry: 8
# books of prose and poetry: 1
# plays: 0
# chapbooks: 2
# books translated from another language to english: 6
# books published in 2019: 17
# books published in 21st century: 38
# books published in 20th century: 43
# books published before 20th century: 5
standouts:
No Country for Old Men (2005) by Cormac McCarthy
Middlemarch (1872) by George Eliot
The Fourth Dimension (1984) by Rudy Rucker
Do the Windows Open? (1997) by Julie Hecht
Was This Man a Genius? (2001) by Julie Hecht
Happy Trails to You (2008) by Julie Hecht
Sing to It (2019) by Amy Hempel
White (2019) by Bret Easton Ellis
Sing to It (2019) by Amy Hempel
White (2019) by Bret Easton Ellis
The Secret Life of Objects (2012) by Dawn Raffel
Gorillas in the Mist (1983) by Dian Fossey
Dark Money (2016) by Jane Mayer
Surveillance Valley (2018) by Yasha Levine
The Tunnel (1995) by William H. Gass
Where Did the Towers Go? (2010) by Judy Wood
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1941) by H. P. Lovecraft
The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales (1985) by H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life (1991) by Michel Houellebecq
Stamped from the Beginning (2016) by Ibram X. Kendi
takeaway:
it appears i preferred nonfiction books, by percentage, and particularly as "standouts" to fiction books in 2019. i felt increasingly interested in politics, other human beings, history, and the environment, i think. i wrote less in the second six months of 2019 than i have in the past five years. i felt more mentally stable, for relatively longer stretches of time than i have in my adult life, and no more desperate, in my times of desperation, than has typically been the case. i have indelibly altered my brain chemistry and ideology through the use of lsd and cannabis. probably additionally with mdma and psilocybin. i feel less concerned with myself than ever. i feel almost entirely, at least, again, relatively, unconcerned with my future and my legacy, especially as a writer, artist, or public figure. i feel more committed to social welfare and economic enfranchisement of people, and i'm curious how my reading habits might change to reflect that. i'm in the first healthy relationship of my life. i await cormac mccarthy's eleventh novel. i'm primed to reread 'the recognitions.' i look forward to exploring ishmael reed's oeuvre. i'm grateful to have not yet read 'middle c' by william h. gass, the later half of joan didion's nonfiction collections, or barry hannah's 'yonder stands your orphan.' i hope julie hecht publishes more. if she does not, i'm forever blessed by what i discovered from her. i want to read more books not originally published in the english language. i want to learn about the history of militia and left-wing movements in the united states and abroad. i'm a bit sad to have squandered all of h. p. lovecraft's writing so quickly. i'm excited at the prospect of another joy williams novel... what else? don delillo books stayed being funny. i don't know what it would take for me to write fiction in a directed manner again. i pulled from the tarot deck nearly every day from april 20, 2019 to december 31, 2019. the results were stimulating. i enjoyed dancing more than any other period of my life. i got different things out of watching movies and listening to music. i want and expect bernie to win the 2020 democratic nomination. i wonder if ibram x. kendi has endorsed him. i don't know if it matters that i didn't read as even a split of books by male and female writers as i strived to in the past few years. i ate too much late at night. i rarely felt bored. my health has, on average, never been worse.
Stamped from the Beginning (2016) by Ibram X. Kendi
takeaway:
it appears i preferred nonfiction books, by percentage, and particularly as "standouts" to fiction books in 2019. i felt increasingly interested in politics, other human beings, history, and the environment, i think. i wrote less in the second six months of 2019 than i have in the past five years. i felt more mentally stable, for relatively longer stretches of time than i have in my adult life, and no more desperate, in my times of desperation, than has typically been the case. i have indelibly altered my brain chemistry and ideology through the use of lsd and cannabis. probably additionally with mdma and psilocybin. i feel less concerned with myself than ever. i feel almost entirely, at least, again, relatively, unconcerned with my future and my legacy, especially as a writer, artist, or public figure. i feel more committed to social welfare and economic enfranchisement of people, and i'm curious how my reading habits might change to reflect that. i'm in the first healthy relationship of my life. i await cormac mccarthy's eleventh novel. i'm primed to reread 'the recognitions.' i look forward to exploring ishmael reed's oeuvre. i'm grateful to have not yet read 'middle c' by william h. gass, the later half of joan didion's nonfiction collections, or barry hannah's 'yonder stands your orphan.' i hope julie hecht publishes more. if she does not, i'm forever blessed by what i discovered from her. i want to read more books not originally published in the english language. i want to learn about the history of militia and left-wing movements in the united states and abroad. i'm a bit sad to have squandered all of h. p. lovecraft's writing so quickly. i'm excited at the prospect of another joy williams novel... what else? don delillo books stayed being funny. i don't know what it would take for me to write fiction in a directed manner again. i pulled from the tarot deck nearly every day from april 20, 2019 to december 31, 2019. the results were stimulating. i enjoyed dancing more than any other period of my life. i got different things out of watching movies and listening to music. i want and expect bernie to win the 2020 democratic nomination. i wonder if ibram x. kendi has endorsed him. i don't know if it matters that i didn't read as even a split of books by male and female writers as i strived to in the past few years. i ate too much late at night. i rarely felt bored. my health has, on average, never been worse.
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