Here are my goals for 2019 and I have finished all of them as of 12/6/2019! Time to prepare for next year!

Total Books: 134/75

1. Read the Hobbit– Finished 1/25/2019
2. Read the Fellowship of the Ring– Finished 02/14/2019
3. Read the Two Towers – Finished 07/01/2019
4. Read the Return of the King – Finished 12/06/2019
5. Read a book from the banned book list– The Giver by Lois Lowry- Finished 01/28/2019
6. Read a book set in a city that I have always wanted to visit –
   Bird King, The by G. Willow Wilson – Finished 02/24/2019
7. Read a book from a country I have visited – A Castle in Romagna by Igor Štiks (Croatia and Italy)- Finished 02/05/2019
8. Read a book with a heroine who is sixty-years or older – The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali – Finished 05/29/2019
9. Read a book set in the state I was born in – The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson
10. Read a book set in Paris – Enchantée by Gita Trelease – Finished 03/12/2019
11. Read a book with non-European Mythology or Supernatural Creatures – Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Finished 05/22/2019
12. Read a book written by or about immigrants or refugees – The Boat SBS by Nam Le – Finished 05/08/2019
13. Read a book that I loved as a child – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K.Rowling- Finished 04/13/2019
14. Read a Booker Prize Winner or Nominee – The Testaments by Margaret Atwood – Finished 09/24/2019
15. Read a book of letters – To Night Owl from Dogfish by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer – Finished 05/10/2019

Also, Read twenty books from authors around the world (and the country I think they best represent) which I’ll list here:

1. She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore for Liberia
2. A Castle in Romagna by Igor Štiks for Croatia
3. soft magic by Upile Chisala for Malawi
4. Minutes of Glory: And other Stories by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o for Kenya
5. Life by Lu Yao for China
6. A People’s History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian for India
7. Broken Wings by Jia Pingwa for China
8. The Boat SBS by Nam Le for Vietnam
9. How We Disappeared by Jing-jing Lee for Singapore
10. Home Remedies by Xuan Juliana Wang for China (sort of)
11. The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali for Iran
12. The Sun on My Head by Geovani Martins for Brazil
13. The Wild Boy: A Memoir by Paolo Cognetti for Italy
14. My Travels in Ding Yi by Shi Tiesheng for China
15. David Mogo, Godhunter by Suyi Davies Okungbowa for Nigeria
16. The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay for India
17. Nectar by Upile Chisala for Malawi
18. The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo for Japan
19. Mama Hissa’s Mice by Saud Al-Sanousi for Kuwait
20. Miss Iceland by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir for Iceland