Books I read in 2019, in reverse order:

1. “The Tangled Tree, A Radical New History of Life” by David Quammen

2. “Buried Deep” by Margot Hunt

3. “Crossing to Safety” by Wallace Stegner

4. “Desert Solitaire” by Edward Abbey

5. “Kindred” by Octavia Butler

6. “The Chemist” by Stephanie Meyer

7. “Gone to Dust” by Matt Goldman

8. “In the Skin of a Lion” by Michael Ondaatje

9. “The Testaments, Handmaid’s Tale, #2” by Margaret Atwood

10. “The Tie that Binds” by Kent Hartford

11. “Days Without End: by Sebastian Barry

12. “Pursuit” by Joyce Carol Oates

13. “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood

14. “Life After Life (Todd Family, #1) by Kate Atkinson

15. “A Heart Breaking Work of a Staggering Genius” by Dave Eggers

16. “The x-Files: Trust No One” by Jonathan Mayberry

17. “Quichotte” by Salman Rushdie

18. “Tangier, A Literary Guide for Travellers” by Josh Shoemaker

19. “The Chain” by Adrian McKinty

20. “Wally Roux, Quantun. Mechanic” by Nick Carr

21. “The Last Girl (The Dominion Trilogy, #1) “ by Joe Hart

22. “The Age of Innocence” by Edith Wharton

23. “Thicker Than Water: A Tony Flaner Mystery” by Johnny Worthen

24. “The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate” by Peter Wholleben

25. “The Loon” by Michaelbrent Collings

26. “Level Five” by William Ledbetter

27. “There There” by Tommy Orange

28. “The Museum of Modern Love” by Heather Rose

29. “Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity” by Jamie Metal

30. “Naked Lunch” by William S. Burroughs

31. “The Conception of Terror: Tales Inspired by M.R. James, Vol 1” by M.R. James

32. “Shadow Beast” by Luke Phillips

33. “Obscura” by Joe Hart

34. “The Last Days of Night” by Graham Moore

35. “Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes”
            By Nathan H. Lentos
36. “Jubilee” by Margaret Walker

37. “Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mystery of Blood” by Rose George

38. “The Wisdom of Wolves” by Jim Dutcher

39. “The Signature of All Things” by Elizabeth Gilbert

40. “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

41. “The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James

42. “Fear” by L. Ron Hubbard

43. “I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)” by Pittacus Lore

44. “Where the Crawdads Sing” by Delia Owens

45. “The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Dedly Medicine, and Murder Most
             Foul” by Eleanor Herman
46. “I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life”
              By Ed Yong
47. “Rebellion (Tankborn, #3)” by Karen Sandler

48. “Riley Mack and the Other Known Troublemakers” by Chris Gravenstein

49. “Breakfast of Champions” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

50. “The Dispatcher” by John Scalzi

51. “True West” by Sam Shepard

52. “Junk” by Les Bohem

53. “Awakening (Tankborn, #2)” by Karen Sandler

54. “The Finger Trap” by Johnny Worthen

55. “What Immortal Hands”  by Johnny Worthen

56. “The Round House” by Louise Erdrich

57. “The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)” by Raymond Chandler

58. “Uglies (Uglies, #1)” by Scott Westerfeld

59. “Points in Time” by Paul Bowles

60. “Milkman” by Anna Burns

61. “Remembering Roth” by James Atlas

62. “Killer of Enemies (Killer of Enemies, #1)” by Joseph Bruchac

63. “Jean Genet in Tangier” by Mohamed Choukri

64. “Tankborn (Tankborn, #1)” by Karen Sandler

65. “Norwegian Wood” by Haruki Murakami

66. “Harry Clarke” by David Cale

67. “A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution”
              By Jennifer A. Doudna
68. “The Obesity Code” by Jason Fung

69. “Imago (Xenogenesis, #3)” by Octavia E. Butler

70, “Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, #2)” by Octavia E, Butler

71. “Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)” by Octavia E. Butler

72. “The Corrections” by Jonathan Frankenberg

73. “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, #1)” by Rick Riordan

74. “The Brand Demand” by Johnny Worthen

75. “Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism” by Sareen S. Gripper

76. “What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins” by Jonathan Balcome

77. “Foundation (Foundation, #1)” by Isaac Asimov

78. “Childhood’s End” by Arthur C. Clark

New Beginnings for year 2020

Well, 2019 is gone and in the record books.  It was so eventful in many ways:

1. Divorced in July 2019
2. My first published short story came out in the anthology book called “Peaks of Madness, A collection of Utah Horror.”  It is still available on Amazon.com

3. I spent a lot of time in New Zealand.  Time with my querida amiga, Jo Jack. She is also a writer.
4. I attended a lot of writing conferences and classes.
5. I read 78 books! ( I will list them all on a later blog.)

6. And my second short story was published and is now available on Amazon.com.
It’s also an anthology called: “Strange Stories, Vol. 1” These stories are not for the faint of heart or for the queasy!   But how fun to be in TWO books now!

So what will I do this year, 2020?  First is my up-coming trip with Jo Jack to Spain and Morocco. I am planning on writing as I travel.

Plus I am going to finish editing my first book in 2020.  Editing is so hard and rather hateful but I must do it and get this book done and over with just because, because I need the experience all the way through the writing, the editing, the publishing and the promotion/advertising end.  

Who knows what next book I will announce to you all! 

P.S. if you prefer hardback books, the Strange Stories, Vol. 1 book is available on:

Www.storenvy.com/stores/1302571-forty-two-books

At a sale rate of $34.99  for a Hardback copy!