75 Books on GerrysBookshelf in 2019

Hi - I'm Gerry and this is my fifth year with the 75 group.
My goals this year are to participate in the Non-Fiction and American Author challenges
and to continue reading around the globe.

Non-Fiction Challenge

January: Prizewinners
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis

February: Science and Technology
Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich

March: True Crime, Misdemeanors and Justice, Past and Present
Lincoln's Last Trial by Dan Abrams

April: Comfort Reads
Buzz : The Nature and Necessity of Bees by Thor Hanson
A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees by Dave Goulson

May: History
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne

June: The Pictures Have It
The Art of Robert Bateman by Ramsay Derry

July: Biography and First Person Yarns
Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull by Barbara Goldsmith
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
The Honey Bus by Meredith May

August: Raw Materials - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
Buzz Sting Bite: Why We Need Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us by Ruth Kassinger
The Ghost Orchard by Helen Humphreys
Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori

September: Books by Journalists
The Honey Bus by Meredith May

October: Other Worlds - From Spiritual to Fantastical
The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris

November: Creators and Creativity
Morning, Noon, and Night: Living the Creative Life by Judy Collins

December: I've Always Been Curious About...

American Author Challenge

January: Chaim Potok
My Name is Asher Lev

February: Louisa May Alcott
Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
Hospital Sketches

March: Jon Clinch
Kings of the Earth

April: Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing

May: Jay Parini
The Passages of H.M. a novel of Herman Melville

June: Pearl Buck
Imperial Woman

July: Founding Fathers and Mothers
Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson

August: Ernest J. Gaines
A Lesson Before Dying

September: Leslie Marmon Silko
Ceremony

October: Drama
Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill

November: W.E.B Dubois
The Souls of Black Folk

December: Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping

Reading Globally

Poland: Flaw by Magdalena Tulli
Scotland: The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
Columbia: Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Belarus: Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
Polynesia: Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
China: Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck
Japan: Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
Sweden: An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
Costa Rica: Monkeys are Made of Chocolate: Exotic and Unseen Costa Rica by Jack Ewing
India : The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple
South Africa: Life & Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee

January

1. The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis
2. My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
3. Flaw by Magdalena Tulli
4. New York by Edward Rutherfurd
5. Plant Seed, Pull Weed: Nurturing the Garden of Your Life by Geri Larkin
6. The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
7. Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver
8. A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
9. The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
10. Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister
11. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
12. Bright Dead Things by Ada Limon

February

13. Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott by Louisa May Alcott
14. The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker
15. Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich
16. The Air We Breathe by Andrea Barrett
17. The Sea Queen by Linnea Hartsuyker
18. The Colour by Rose Tremain
19. Atticus Finch : The Biography : Harper Lee, her father, an the making of an American icon by Joseph Crespino
20. Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott

March

21. Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch
22. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
23. Behind the Beyond by Stephen Leacock
24. Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver
25. Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
26. A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War by Patricia Fara
27. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
28. Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
29. Lincoln's Last Trial by Dan Abrams
30. Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
31. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
32. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

April

33. Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
34. Mr. Darwin’s Gardener by Kristina Carlson
35. Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
36. Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
37. The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett
38. Circe by Madeline Miller
39. The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
40. Buzz : The Nature and Necessity of Bees by Thor Hanson
41. There There by Tommy Orange
42. A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees by Dave Goulson
43. The Wall by John Lanchester
44. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

May

45. The Passages of H.M. a novel of Herman Melville by Jay Parini
46. The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
47. The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland
48. Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
49. Nine Horses by Billy Collins
50. Influenza: The Hundred Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History by Jeremy Brown
51. Sleep Donation by Karen Russell

June

52. The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
53. The Heavens by Sandra Newman
54. Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell
55. The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald
56. American Marriage by Tayari Jones
57. The Art of Robert Bateman by Ramsay Derry
58. Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck
59. The Ivy Tree by Mary Stewart
60. The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett
61. A Cup of Tea by Amy Ephron
62. Of Wolves and Men by Barry Holstun Lopez
63. The Echoing Green: Poems of Fields, Meadows, and Grasses

July

64. Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull by Barbara Goldsmith
65. Maisie Dobbs by Jaqueline Winspear
66. Women Talking by Miriam Toews
67. Women Rowing North by Mary Pipher
68. Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf
69. Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World by Lyndall Gordon
70. Hope Rides Again by Andrew Shaffer
71. Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
72. Apollo’s Legacy: Perspectives on the Moon Landings by Roger D. Launius
73. Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
74. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson

August

75. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
76. Buzz Sting Bite: Why We Need Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
77. A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
78. Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
79. Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us by Ruth Kassinger
80. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
81. Inland: A Novel by Tea Obreht
82. The Ghost Orchard by Helen Humphreys
83. Irma Voth by Miriam Toews
84. The Gathering by Anne Enright
85. This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
86. Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori
87. The Honey Bus by Meredith May
88. An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good by Helene Tursten
89. Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

September

90. Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
91. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
92. The Beekeeper’s Pupil by Sara George
93. The Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter
94. The Women of Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
95. The Darwin Affair by Tim Mason

October

96. The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames
97. The Golden Wolf by Linnea Hartsuyker
98. Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill
99. Kopp Sisters on the March by Amy Stewart
100. Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear
101. The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris

November

102. The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch
103. Monkeys are Made of Chocolate: Exotic and Unseen Costa Rica by Jack Ewing
104. Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben
105. An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear
106. Morning, Noon, and Night: Living the Creative Life by Judy Collins
107. The Innocents by Michael Crummey
108. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
109. The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
110. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple

December

111. Gods of the Upper Air: how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century by Charles King
112. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
113. This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
114. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
115. Democracy by Joan Didion
116. Life & Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
117. The Newton Letter by John Banville
118. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
119. Apples by Frank Browning
120. Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear
121. A Short Philosophy of Birds by Philippe J. Dubois
122. Still Life by Louise Penny
123. Consolation by Michael Redhill

Hello, Gerry! Welcome back to the Challenge!

Welcome back!

Happy New Year Gerry!

Happy reading in 2019, Gerry!

Happy New Year, Gerry. I love the reading women!

Thanks everyone.
And a Happy New Year to all of you too!

Happy 2019
A year full of books
A year full of friends
A year full of all your wishes realised

I look forward to keeping up with you, Gerry, this year.

2019 Favorites - Fiction

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Circe by Madeline Miller
Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
The Women of Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

2019 Favorites - Non Fiction

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson
The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea by Jack E. Davis
The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough
Of Wolves and Men by Barry Holstun Lopez
Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori
The Honey Bus by Meredith May
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben
Apples by Frank Browning

2019 Wrap Up

Fiction - 80
Nonfiction - 41

Female authors - 73
Male authors - 47

Anthology - 1

End of year book meme:

Describe yourself:An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good
-not exactly elderly yet - I prefer the term "seasoned"
Describe how you feel:Good and Mad
Describe where you currently live:The Ghost Orchard
If you could go anywhere, where would you go? The Lost for Words Bookshop
Your favorite form of transportation: The Honey Bus
Your best friend is: Maisie Dobbs
You and your friends are: Women Talking
What's the weather like? The Winter of the Witch
You fear: Buzz, Sting, Bite
What is the best advice you have to give? Plant Seed, Pull Weed
Thought for the day: Monkeys Are Made of Chocolate
How would you like to die? Bright Dead Things
Your soul's present condition: The Light Fantastic