Ryan Turner

Having finished the manuscript for Woman Walking in the early fall, the last quarter of this year presented an unprecedented (within the last few years of writing anyway) opportunity to focus solely on reading. I do read intermittently when in the midst of writing a book, but all roads – and all sentences – tend to lead me back to writing. This year, because many of the books I do read come from the library and risk being forgotten, I decided to note the titles of every completed book. I’ve also decided to list them below not as notches on a belt, but in hopes that others may come across titles they don’t recognize, or only partially recognize, amongst titles they’ve enjoyed, and as a result, be a bit more likely to pick those books off the shelves of a library or book store. Perhaps I’ll draw attention to a few that I’ve especially enjoyed with **, though it’s been a particularly great year for reading and on my first time through I put ** next to nearly every one.

Here they are in the order they were read (though a few were for a second time):