Christina Holmes

One of my favourite things about January is putting together my new reading list. I don't always stick to it, I rarely stop at just the ones I list. But it such an exciting way to start the year with a new list of books to read and add to my ever growing book cases (Actually, stacked next to my bookcases as my bookshelf is now too full for more books. . . )


Here are the first 20 books I plan to read this year. What's on your list? Any recomendations? 




Scrappy Little Nobody by Anna Kendrick 
All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead 
The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George 
Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham 

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians That Helped Win The Space Race by Margot Lee Sherrerly
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill by Candice Milliard 
The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer 
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness 
Rocket Girl- The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan - America’s First Female Rocket Scientist  

Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt 

American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin 
White Trash. The 400-year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg  
American Witches: A broomstick Tour through Four Centuries by Susan Fair 
Fortune’s Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt by Arthur T Vanderbilt II 



Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City - Matthew Desmond 
Suffragette: My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst
The Lost World of Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay 
Shadow of the Titanic - Andrew Wilson 
The Traitor’s Wife by Allison Pataki