2021 Lookback and 2022 Reading Resolutions

Welcome to Top Shelf Reads, on today’s episode we look back on our 2021 reading year and set our reading resolutions for 2022.

02:48 -- Chatting about our holidays

• Youtube Channels:
  • KDbooks
  • Rachel is Reading
  • Paper Knot Books
• Books mentioned:
  • Persuasion
  • Giovanni's Room
  • Makioka Sisters 
  • The Morning Star
  • Chess Story
  • Independent People
  • Sleepless Nights
  • Louise Gluck Poems 1962-2012
  • A Novel by Steven More Volume 1
  • Breakfast of Champions
  • Bats of the Republic
  • The Trial
  • Zama
  • Kin by Jergovic
  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold

32:36 -- 2021 in Review

• Some books mentioned:
  • Piranesi
  • Song of Achilles
  • Circe
  • Song for the Unraveling of the World
  • Firekeeper's Daughter
  • The Employees: A 22nd Century Workplace Novel
  • A Fine Balance
  • The Rifles (Vollmann)
  • If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
  • Moby Dick
  • The Metamorphosis (Kafka)
  • The Yellow Wallpaper
  • A Christmas Carol
  • Hyperion
  • Boy's Life (McCammon)
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
  • The Satanic Verses
  • The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
  • The Wizard of Earth Sea
  • Moby-Dick

01:09:41 -- 2022 Reading Resolutions

• Some more books mentioned:
  • The Conformist (Moravia)
  • Zama
  • The Door (Szabo)
  • Kokoro
  • Cat's Cradle
  • The Age of Huts
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  • Cannonball (McElroy)
  • The Peregrine
  • Parakeet
  • The Dying Grass
  • Infinite Jest
  • In Search of Lost Time
  • The Brothers Karamazov
  • The Luminaries
  • The Anatomy of Melancholy
  • XX (Rian Hughes)
  • Middlemarch
  • Lonesome Dove
  • Moon Witch Spider King
  • The Count of Monte Cristo

I'm sure I missed a few books...

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