end of the year reflections overview book list
Every year at this time a year I like to reflect back on the year before what I had done what movies I had seen what books I had read where I have traveled and what I have accomplished this year for the first time I’m going to blog about this so here are my end-of-the-year book list movie list and travel list.
new Yorker List Best Books of the Year

First let’s look at the book list. This is the list of books I have read this year.
reading goal for this year included
5 to 6 books per month -2 from library one from Kindle one from own library
1 SF or thriller
1 world lit including Korean, Latin American, Indian novels
1 poetry
1 history or current event
Read 19th classic novels
Read all my classic books as well
One Korean history book
One writing craft book
One Spanish language book
One Korean book
for next year continue as before but read more Korean and Spanish books
The List
- AC Fuller The Anonymous Source
- AC Fuller the Inverted Pyramid
- AC Fuller the Mocking Bird Drive
- AC Fuller the Shadow File
- AC Fuller The Last Journalist
- AC Fuller Cutline
- Earnest Howard The Atlantis Stone
- Down in the Dirt 2018 Anthology Natural Light includes my poem
- Down in the Dirt 2019 Literary Review my poem Strangeness in the Air appears November
- Snarling Cup of Coffee My Chapbook as published in Poetry Superhighway give away
- David Balladaci Winner
- Making Out in Korean
- Vietnam Lonely Planet
- .Vietnam Cambodia Lonely Planet
- .Vietnam Easy Travel Guide
- .Continuing Korean
- .Advanced Korean
- Conspiracy Theory JD Oliva Kindle
- .Museum Attack Jim Heskett Kindle
- .Jamie Thornton Germination did not finish Kindle
- Steve Konkoly Red Dragon Kindle
- Nathan Van Cooper In Times Like These Kindle
- Earnest Dempsey The Secret of the Stones Kindle
- Braddon Ellis Atlantis Quadrilogy Kindle
- .Bida Ernie Howard Kindle
- .Howard Finn Adventures of Robin Hood Kindle
- .Nick Jones The Unexpected Gift of Joseph Bridgeman Kindle
- .Stephen Tharp the Western DMZ Paju
- .Icebergs Alistair Morgan
- An Ordinary Soldier Gramma Joyce erotic shorts
- The Camera and the Cobra erotic shorts
- .Substitutes Viet Dinh erotic shorts
- The Nursery Kirstein Sundberg erotic shorts
- Tell Him About Brother Joe Manuel Munoz erotic shorts
- Isabelle’s Daughter Karin Brown erotic shorts
- Purple Bamboo Park EV Slate erotic shorts
- This is Not Your City Caitlin Horroks erotic shorts
- The Visitor Marisa Silver erotic shorts
- .The Bell Ring John Burnside erotic shorts
- .The House Behind A Weeping Cherry Ha Jin erotic shorts
- . And We Will Be Here Paul Yoon erotic shorts
- Uncle Musto Takes A Mistress erotic shorts
- .Darkness Andrew Sean Greer erotic shorts
- .Kind LE Miller erotic shorts
- .The Order of Things Judy Troy erotic shorts
- Wildwood Junot Diaz erotic shorts
- A Beneficiary Nadine Gordimer erotic shorts
- Blasphemy Douglas Preston erotic shorts
- .Michael Robinson The Alpha Plague erotic shorts
- .The Enigma Stain Nick Thacke erotic shorts
- . Captain Bartholomew Quasar Miles James Fowl erotic shorts
- .Kill Switch Steve N Lee – did not finish – a bit too violent for my taste
- .Second Chances Lincoln Cole Gripping emotional family drama – quite well done
- The Alpha Plague Michael Robinson – so so Zombie thriller
- Strike Jim Heskett Did not finish
- Tech Fall Austin Drago
- TS Elliot Complete poems and Plays
- Stuart Woods Skin Game – finished YS Library
- .Stuart Woods Desperate Measures
- John Grisham The Reckoning YS
- .David Poyer Deep Water
- .Bill Clinton/James Paterson The President Is Missing
- James Elroy This Story
- .Lindsay Buroker Star Nomad
- .Nick Thacker the Depths
- The Green Ghost Johnston Mc Cullety Shadow Justice
- Mr Death Takes the Wheel G Wyman Jones Shadow Justice
- The Emperor Runs the Gauntlet Charles Lee Jackson Shadow Justice
- the Shadow Smith Investigations Owen Fox Jerome Shadow Justice
- Fireball Charles Lee Jackson Shadow Justice
- the Crimson Mask Scorpion Trail Frank Johnson Shadow Justice
- The Reaper City of Thirst William Glass Shadow Justice
- The Mask of Cypher fireball adventure Shadow Justice
- The emperor Marked for Death Shadow Justice
- .Milo James Captain Bartholomew Quasar
- .Lincoln Cole Second Chances
- .Steve Lee Kill Switch
- .Michale Robinson the Alpha Plague
- .Micha Caridad Time Trap
- .Jim Hesket Strike
- .Ransom Riggs Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
- .Ransom Riggs Hollow City
- .Ransom Riggs library of Souls
- .James Elroy American Tabloid
- .James Elroy The Cold Six Thousand
- .James Elroy Blood Requiem
- .David Poyer Deep Water
- .Lindsay Buroker Star Nomad
- .Nick Thacker the Depths
- Micha Caridad Time Trap
- .Minnie’s Diary my poem included the Market Rules Us All
- Poetry Explosion News letter – My poem Fears included
- .Poets Against the Wall – my poem Take Down this Wall included
- .Best American Poetry 2017
- .Best American Poetry 2018
- .Best American Poetry 2019
- Easy Thai
- .Fundamentals of Thai Language
- .Thai Phrasebook
- Scales Fall All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
- the Ant Tower All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
- Heft All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
- the first acolyte of the Upshot All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
- Bronwells Dowry All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
- the Spider and the Darkness All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
- The Dowager’s Largress All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
- Therjiac All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
- the Red Flame of Death All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
- The Blue Breeze All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
- The Rakam All These Shining Worlds Best SF shorts
- Arthur Doyle Lost World
- Franklin Autobiography
- Craig McDonnough Destination Roswell
- Clare Littermore FLow
- Incheon Travel Guide
- Gangnam style Yangchechong Stream
- His forbidden touch ten Shades of Sexy
- Heaven’s fire ten Shades of Sexy
- just Perfect ten Shades of Sexy
- the Games ten Shades of Sexy
- Taken by the Cowboy ten Shades of Sexy
- Lips that Touch Mine ten Shades of Sexy
- Justin ten Shades of Sexy
- Hidden Crimes ten Shades of Sexy
- Trust Me ten Shades of Sexy
- Ten Shades of Sexy ten Shades of Sexy
- Mathew Mather Dark Net
- Austin Dragon Tek Fail
- Austin Dragon Liquid Cool
- Dean F WIlson Cool Hand Luke
- Austin Dragon Hollow Blood
- Duncan Simpson Dark Horizon
- AJ Ramsey Apocalypse Rise of the Machines
- Bobby Adair Freedom Fire
- Bobby Adair Slow Burn
- Alice May Bell Hot Wife
- Robert Peace Scout
Other
Other James Elroy read
The Underworld USA Trilogy
American Tabloid
the Cold Six Thousand
Blood Requiem
LA Quartet
black Dahlia
The Big Nowhere
LA Confidential
To read
Whitman Leaves of Grass
Dickenson Collected Poems
the Wrinkle in Time five volume Series
Robert Service Poems (from Alaskan gold rush period)
Poetry for dummies
The Poets Companion
Art and Craft of Poetry
Crafting Scenes
Creating Plot
Ben Nyberg One Way to Write Short Stories
James n Frey How to Write Damn Good Novel
Rittenberg Your First Novel
Myeongo’s korean reader
the lion the witch and the ward-row in Spanish and english
Kim Soo Sijo In Korean and English
Robert Collins North Korean Organization and Guidance Department
Robert Collins Denied Human Rights at the Local Level
Courtland Robinson Lost Generation
Federalist Papers
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