1AquariaTX
I'm retired and a super-fast reader, so I'll have to break up my ROOTs by month. I'm counting anything older than 3 years as a ROOT book.
January (22)
Paul Yoon – Run Me to Earth
Anne Applebaum – Twilight of Democracy
Dorothy Sayers – Whose Body
Ngaio Marsh – A Man Lay Dead
James Cain – The Postman Always Rings Twice
Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone
James Cain – Double Indemnity
Samantha Mabry – All the Wind in the World
Ngaio Marsh – Enter a Murderer
James Baldwin – The Fire Next Time
Umberto Eco – The Name of the Rose
Dorothy Sayers – Clouds of Witness
Jenny Odell – How to Do Nothing
Ngaio Marsh – The Nursing Home Murder
Dorothy Sayers – Unnatural Death
Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me
Mario Puzo – The Godfather
Ngaio Marsh – Death in Ecstasy
Mary McCoy – I, Claudia
Dorothy Sayers – Lord Peter Views the Body
Matt Haig – The Midnight Library
George Eliot – Silas Marner
February (23/45)
Ngaio Marsh – Vintage Murder
Dorothy Sayers – The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
Nina Lacour – We Are Okay
Shae Sanders – Act Like You Mean It
Hope Jahren – Lab Girl
Ngaio Marsh – Artists in Crime
Dorothy Sayers – Strong Poison
Brian Jacques – Redwall
Vidyan Ravinthiran – The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here
David Treuer – The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Dorothy Sayers – The Five Red Herrings
Ngaio Marsh – Death in a White Tie
Laila Ibrahim – The Paper Wife
Julie Murphy – Dumplin’
Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö – The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
Helen Hoang – The Kiss Quotient
Ngaio Marsh – Overture to Death
Dorothy Sayers – Have His Carcase
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self-Reliance & Other Essays
Margaret Millar – Beast in View
María Manrique – The Caiman
Agatha Christie – Witness for the Prosecution
Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest
March (26/71)
Ngaio Marsh – Death at the Bar
Dorothy Sayers – SS Hangman’s Holiday
Daniel Ellsberg – The Doomsday Machine
Natalia Sylvester – Everyone Knows You Go Home
Gene Yang – American Born Chinese
Ngaio Marsh – Surfeit of Lampreys
Dorothy Sayers – Murder Must Advertise
Kacen Callender – King and the Dragonflies
PD Eastman – Are You My Mother
Natsume Souseki – Kokoro
Dodie Smith – I Capture the Castle
Rebecca Makkai – The Great Believers
Ngaio Marsh – Death and the Dancing Footman
Dorothy Sayers – The Nine Tailors
Antoine Laurain – The Red Notebook
American Diabetes Association – Spanish Phrasebook
Philip Pullman – Dust 1 La Belle Sauvage
Lorraine Hansberry – A Raisin in the Sun
Fernando Vilela – Along the Tapajós
Dorothy Sayers – Gaudy Night
Elizabeth Acevedo – Clap When You Land
Les & Tamara Payne – The Dead Are Arising
Ngaio Marsh – Colour Scheme
Robert Carlson – Egyptian Mythology
Charlotte Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper
Dorothy Sayers – Busman’s Honeymoon
April (18/89)
Ngaio Marsh – Died in the Wool
TS Eliot – Prufrock and Other Poems
Barbara Kingsolver – The Poisonwood Bible
Attica Locke – Bluebird, Bluebird
Herman Parish – Amelia Bedelia on the Move
Ngaio Marsh – Final Curtain
Dorothy Sayers – In the Teeth of the Evidence
EB White – Charlotte’s Web
Dorothy Sayers – The Wimsey Papers
Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White
Dorothy Sayers – Striding Folly
Ngaio Marsh – Swing, Brother, Swing
Enrico Moretti – The New Geography of Jobs
Ngaio Marsh – Night at the Vulcan
Brandon Sanderson – Perfect State
Oyinkan Braithwaite – My Sister the Serial Killer
Liu Cixin – The Three-Body Problem
Ngaio Marsh – Spinsters In Jeopardy
May (26/115)
Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt – How Democracies Die
Ngaio Marsh – Scales of Justice
Elif Shafak – The Architect’s Apprentice
Brian Vaughan – Saga
Matt Fargo – Dirty Japanese
Kimberly Jones & Gilly Segal – I’m Not Dying with You Tonight
Ngaio Marsh – Death of a Fool
William Boyd – Restless
Ann Cleeves – Frozen
Matt Clayton – Hindu Mythology
Dorothy Sayers & Jill Walsh – Thrones, Dominations
Pierce Brown – Red Rising
Jean Plaidy – The Courts of Love
Charlaine Harris – Dead Until Dark
Katherine Porter – My Chinese Marriage
Ngaio Marsh – Singing in the Shrouds
Daniel Brown – Facing the Mountain
Eoin Colfer & Andrew Donkin – Illegal
LM Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables
Ngaio Marsh – False Scent
Susan Hill – The Various Haunts of Men
Speak by Laurie Anderson
Graham Greene – End of the Affair
Jack London – White Fang
Norton Juster – The Phantom Tollbooth
Ngaio Marsh – Hand in Glove
June (24/139)
Anthony Doerr – Cloud Cuckoo Land
Casey Cep – Furious Hours
Jack London – The Call of the Wild
AA Milne – The Red House Mystery
Jon Dunn – The Glitter in the Green
Hisham Matar – The Return
Richard Flanagan – The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Ngaio Marsh – Dead Water
Karla Villavicencio – The Undocumented Americans
Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon
Ngaio Marsh – Death at the Dolphin
Graham Greene – Our Man in Havana
Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass
JK Rowling – Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone (Yes, I was the last person over 9 years old who hadn't read it...until now)
Jonathan Evison – Lawn Boy
EΠSomerville РSome Experiences of an Irish RM
Ngaio Marsh – Clutch of Constables
Mary Renault – The King Must Die
Susan Choi – Trust Exercise
Aaron Brecon – A Visit to the Zoo
Ngaio Marsh – When in Rome
Elizabeth Wetmore – Valentine
Qiu Xiaolong – A Loyal Character Dancer
January (22)
Paul Yoon – Run Me to Earth
Anne Applebaum – Twilight of Democracy
Dorothy Sayers – Whose Body
Ngaio Marsh – A Man Lay Dead
James Cain – The Postman Always Rings Twice
Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone
James Cain – Double Indemnity
Samantha Mabry – All the Wind in the World
Ngaio Marsh – Enter a Murderer
James Baldwin – The Fire Next Time
Umberto Eco – The Name of the Rose
Dorothy Sayers – Clouds of Witness
Jenny Odell – How to Do Nothing
Ngaio Marsh – The Nursing Home Murder
Dorothy Sayers – Unnatural Death
Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me
Mario Puzo – The Godfather
Ngaio Marsh – Death in Ecstasy
Mary McCoy – I, Claudia
Dorothy Sayers – Lord Peter Views the Body
Matt Haig – The Midnight Library
George Eliot – Silas Marner
February (23/45)
Ngaio Marsh – Vintage Murder
Dorothy Sayers – The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
Nina Lacour – We Are Okay
Shae Sanders – Act Like You Mean It
Hope Jahren – Lab Girl
Ngaio Marsh – Artists in Crime
Dorothy Sayers – Strong Poison
Brian Jacques – Redwall
Vidyan Ravinthiran – The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here
David Treuer – The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
Dorothy Sayers – The Five Red Herrings
Ngaio Marsh – Death in a White Tie
Laila Ibrahim – The Paper Wife
Julie Murphy – Dumplin’
Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö – The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
Helen Hoang – The Kiss Quotient
Ngaio Marsh – Overture to Death
Dorothy Sayers – Have His Carcase
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Self-Reliance & Other Essays
Margaret Millar – Beast in View
María Manrique – The Caiman
Agatha Christie – Witness for the Prosecution
Oscar Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest
March (26/71)
Ngaio Marsh – Death at the Bar
Dorothy Sayers – SS Hangman’s Holiday
Daniel Ellsberg – The Doomsday Machine
Natalia Sylvester – Everyone Knows You Go Home
Gene Yang – American Born Chinese
Ngaio Marsh – Surfeit of Lampreys
Dorothy Sayers – Murder Must Advertise
Kacen Callender – King and the Dragonflies
PD Eastman – Are You My Mother
Natsume Souseki – Kokoro
Dodie Smith – I Capture the Castle
Rebecca Makkai – The Great Believers
Ngaio Marsh – Death and the Dancing Footman
Dorothy Sayers – The Nine Tailors
Antoine Laurain – The Red Notebook
American Diabetes Association – Spanish Phrasebook
Philip Pullman – Dust 1 La Belle Sauvage
Lorraine Hansberry – A Raisin in the Sun
Fernando Vilela – Along the Tapajós
Dorothy Sayers – Gaudy Night
Elizabeth Acevedo – Clap When You Land
Les & Tamara Payne – The Dead Are Arising
Ngaio Marsh – Colour Scheme
Robert Carlson – Egyptian Mythology
Charlotte Gilman – The Yellow Wallpaper
Dorothy Sayers – Busman’s Honeymoon
April (18/89)
Ngaio Marsh – Died in the Wool
TS Eliot – Prufrock and Other Poems
Barbara Kingsolver – The Poisonwood Bible
Attica Locke – Bluebird, Bluebird
Herman Parish – Amelia Bedelia on the Move
Ngaio Marsh – Final Curtain
Dorothy Sayers – In the Teeth of the Evidence
EB White – Charlotte’s Web
Dorothy Sayers – The Wimsey Papers
Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White
Dorothy Sayers – Striding Folly
Ngaio Marsh – Swing, Brother, Swing
Enrico Moretti – The New Geography of Jobs
Ngaio Marsh – Night at the Vulcan
Brandon Sanderson – Perfect State
Oyinkan Braithwaite – My Sister the Serial Killer
Liu Cixin – The Three-Body Problem
Ngaio Marsh – Spinsters In Jeopardy
May (26/115)
Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt – How Democracies Die
Ngaio Marsh – Scales of Justice
Elif Shafak – The Architect’s Apprentice
Brian Vaughan – Saga
Matt Fargo – Dirty Japanese
Kimberly Jones & Gilly Segal – I’m Not Dying with You Tonight
Ngaio Marsh – Death of a Fool
William Boyd – Restless
Ann Cleeves – Frozen
Matt Clayton – Hindu Mythology
Dorothy Sayers & Jill Walsh – Thrones, Dominations
Pierce Brown – Red Rising
Jean Plaidy – The Courts of Love
Charlaine Harris – Dead Until Dark
Katherine Porter – My Chinese Marriage
Ngaio Marsh – Singing in the Shrouds
Daniel Brown – Facing the Mountain
Eoin Colfer & Andrew Donkin – Illegal
LM Montgomery – Anne of Green Gables
Ngaio Marsh – False Scent
Susan Hill – The Various Haunts of Men
Speak by Laurie Anderson
Graham Greene – End of the Affair
Jack London – White Fang
Norton Juster – The Phantom Tollbooth
Ngaio Marsh – Hand in Glove
June (24/139)
Anthony Doerr – Cloud Cuckoo Land
Casey Cep – Furious Hours
Jack London – The Call of the Wild
AA Milne – The Red House Mystery
Jon Dunn – The Glitter in the Green
Hisham Matar – The Return
Richard Flanagan – The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Ngaio Marsh – Dead Water
Karla Villavicencio – The Undocumented Americans
Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon
Ngaio Marsh – Death at the Dolphin
Graham Greene – Our Man in Havana
Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass
JK Rowling – Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone (Yes, I was the last person over 9 years old who hadn't read it...until now)
Jonathan Evison – Lawn Boy
EΠSomerville РSome Experiences of an Irish RM
Ngaio Marsh – Clutch of Constables
Mary Renault – The King Must Die
Susan Choi – Trust Exercise
Aaron Brecon – A Visit to the Zoo
Ngaio Marsh – When in Rome
Elizabeth Wetmore – Valentine
Qiu Xiaolong – A Loyal Character Dancer
3AquariaTX
I don't have a goal, per se. I've thousands of books I've meant to read, but life got in the way until a couple of years ago. So if I've need of a book to read, I'll usually pick something I somehow never got around to when I was attending uni/working/raising a family/coping with serious health issues.
At my age, that's a scary number of books.
At my age, that's a scary number of books.
