What I'm Reading Eventually: My 2019 TBR (To Be Read) List

Two months into 2019 I've added more to the list than I've read.

That's okay.

A note on my approach to alphabetizing -- I worked for years as a professional copy editor, work that included creating the index for book after book. At times I dreamed about words in "order, comma, inverted".

I understand that librarians and others creating alphabetical lists ignore any articles at the beginning of a title. I don't. I believe the author made a specific choice, since so many titles would work fine without the article. In the list below, A Blade So Black could easily have been titled Blade So Black. And it wasn't.

All works are alphabetized according to the first word that appears no matter what part of speech it is.

Fiction

• A Blade So Black, L.L. McKinney (@BladeSoBlack): One of those Twitter finds thanks to following another writer, Ellen Oh. Described as Alice in Wonderland meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
• A Message to Garcia and Other Stories, Elbert Hubbard
• A Reaper at the Gates, Sabaa Tahir (@SabaaTahir): Third in her Ember in the Ashes series. I think I need to go back and re-read the first two once the fourth book is out so I can read all the way through.
• Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories, Vandana Singh: I've actually started this; I keep a story collection around for when I want to read something shorter.
• Angelfall (Penryn and The End Of Days Series), Susan Ee (@Susan_Ee)
• Bandwidth, Eliot Peper (@EliotPeper)
• Bleak Harbor: A Novel, Bryan Gruley (@BryanGruley): One of my Amazon Prime freebies.
• Bright Thrones (Court of Fives), Kate Elliott (@KateElliottSFF): How I love these books! Another author whose works I will read and read and read as long as she puts them out.
• Circe, Madeline Miller (@MillerMadeline): Her Song of Achilles was great.
• Codebreakers series, Colin F. Barnes: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta
• Empire of Sand, Tasha Suri (@TashaDrinksTea)
• Flame in the Mist, Renée Ahdieh (@RAhdieh): I loved her The Wrath and the Dawn series, expect to enjoy this one too.
• Her Instruments Series, M.C.A. Hogarth (@MCAHogarth): Found via Twitter.
• Kingdoms of Elfin, Sylvia Townsend Warner: Found this thanks to the fascinating essay "Hen Wives, Spinsters, and Lolly Willowes" by Terry Windling.
• Masks and Shadows, Stephanie Burgis (@StephanieBurgis): Found via Twitter on sale for $1.99 -- I'm a sucker for a sale and Burgis's work was recommended by authors I admire.
• Native Tongue trilogy: Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin and Susan Squier; The Judas Rose and Earthsong by Suzette Haden Elgin and Julie Vedder
• Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman (@NeilHimself)
• So Lucky, Nicola Griffith (@NicolaZ): I've loved every one of her other books. Read this essay by Dr. Griffith in the New York Times on implicit ableist bias in literature.
• Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (@NaomiNovik): Her previous fairy tale Uprooted was great and I loved her Temeraire series (alternate British history -- naval and aerial battles with dragons).
• Starless, Jacqueline Carey (@JCareyAuthor)
• Starswept, Mary Fan (@AstralColt)
• Storywalker, David Bridger (@DavidBridger)
• Sunshine, Robin McKinley (@RobinMcKinley): Have loved everything of hers I've read, including two of the aforementioned Beauty and the Beast retellings.
• The Bastard of Istanbul, Elif Shafak (@Elif-Shafak)
• The Color of Magic, Terry Pratchett
• The Girl in the Tower, Katherine Arden (@ArdenKatherine): Continues the Winternight trilogy that began with The Bear and the Nightingale
• The Green Man's Heir, Juliet E. McKenna (@JulietMcKenna)
• The Hero and the Crown, Robin McKinley (@RobinMcKinley)
• The Language of Thorns, Leigh Bardugo (@LBardugo): I'll read anything Bardugo writes.
• The Last of the Stanfields, Marc Levy
• The Lays of Marie de France, Marie de France
• The Midwife's Revolt by Jodi Daynard (@JodiDaynard)
• The Mirror Empire, Kameron Hurley (@KameronHurley) and Richard Anderson
• The Ragged Edge of Night, Olivia Hawke
• The Shades of Magic Series: A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, A Conjuring of Light, V. E. Schwab (@VESchwab)
• The Sisters of the Winter Wood, Rena Rossner (@RenaRossner)
• Torn, Rowenna Miller (@RowennaM): I used to sew quite a bit (made my own clothes and matching dresses for Eldest Daughter and Second Daughter every Christmas when they were little), so I like the premise of magic stitchery in this.
• True Fiction, Lee Goldberg
• True Places: A Novel, Sonja Yoerg (@SonjaYoerg)

Nonfiction

• Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport (@CalNewport but don't bother to tweet at him): Preordered this one after reading Deep Work.
• Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger, Rebecca Traister:  (@RTraister): Picked this up after hearing an interview with her on the "Call Your Girlfriend" podcast.
• How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back from Your Next Raise, Promotion, or Job, Sally Helgesen (@SallyHelgesen) and Marshall Goldsmith (@CoachGoldsmith)
• Never Stop Walking: A Memoir of Finding Home Across the World, Christina Rickardsson and Tara F. Chace
• Noni Flowers: 40 Exquisite Knitted Flowers, Nora Bellows (@NoniDesigns): This one will come into play at some point when I want to try some new knitting projects. I have a bit of a backlog at this point -- need to spend some time at the local yarn shop learning to turn heels on socks.
• Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, Kim Scott
• So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo). I follow Oluo on Twitter and have had this on my list for far too long.
• That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together, Joanne Lipman (@JoanneLipman): Recommended by a friend.
• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Richard Rothstein: I've been meaning to put this on the list ever since the America Walks webinar on the book and finally picked it up.
• The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality in the Workplace, Ruchika Tulshyan (@RTulshyan)
• The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence, Gavin de Becker (corporate account @GDBAProtects): Recommended by Barry Eisler in end notes for The Killer Collective. Every Eisler book makes me think about personal safety, similar to the Aud Torvingen series by Nicola Griffith. (Note to both authors: I think Aud should meet up and work with the people from The Killer Collective.)
• The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds: About Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose research changed how we understand the way the human mind works.
• The View from Flyover Country, Sarah Kendzior (@SarahKendzior): I've had this on the list forever. I follow Kendzior on Twitter. She's a brilliant and perceptive observer of politics on the grand scale and provides the accountability check we need. If you're a podcast listener find Gaslit Nation, which Kendzior hosts with Andrea Chalupa.
• Wanderlust: A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit