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I read 47 books with a total of 18,812 pages. 11 of those books were in Dutch, 30 in German and 6 in English language. 8 books were works of nonfiction, the rest were novels or collections of short stories.
I started reading some of the Russian classics in this year: Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov and of course Dostoevsky (I already read a Tolstoy years ago, not to worry). My favorite book of this year in reading was The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough - I just love chunky family histories set in the past! The biggest disappointment for me was The Secret History by Donna Tartt - I loved The Goldfinch, which I read a couple of weeks earlier, so had high hopes for her most celebrated novel, but it didn't do it for me. I was happy to finally read a beautifully illustrated edition of A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, which had been on my shelf ever since winning it after a biology contest back in high school. The choices for books were rather random: titles that spoke to me in the library, books that had been sitting on my shelves for years, recommendations by friends as well as a couple of classics from the Story Lines Reading list. Here’s an overview in chronological order of my reading. 
Woman reading by Ulisse Caputo
BOOKS read in 2019:
1. Geert Mak – Verleden van Nederland (2009)
2. Multatuli - Max Havelaar (1860) Read Review 3. F. Scott Fitzgerald – Tender is the Night (1934) Read Review 4. Fyodor Dostoyevski – The Brothers Karamasov (1879) Read Review 5. Niklas Natt och Dag – 1793 (2017) Read Review
6. Tonke Dragt – The Song of Seven (1966)
7. Yuval Noah Harari – Sapiens (2011) Read Review 8. Jan Paul Schutten & Floor Rieder - Het wonder van jou en je biljoenen bewoners (2015) 9. Jan Paul Schutten & Floor Rieder - Het mysterie van niks en oneindig veel snot (2018) Read Review (in Dutch) 10. Annie Proulx – The Shipping News (1993) Read Review 11. Landon Y. Jones - The Essential Lewis and Clark (1999) 12. Eric Kincaid - Nursery Songs and Rhymes (2005) 13. Anna Romer - Under the Midnight Sky (2019) 14. Colleen McCullough – The Thorn Birds (1977) Read Review 15. Michael Brenner - Kleine jüdische Geschichte Read Review (in German) 16. Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) Read Review 17. Nathan Englander – What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (2012) Read Review 18. Donna Tartt – The Secret History (1992) Read Review 19. Ray Bradbury – Something Wicked This Way Comes Read Review 20. Antoine Weijzen - Racisme in Amerika(2019) Read Review (in Dutch) 21. Jerzy Kosinski – The Painted Bird (1965) Read Review 22. P.L. Travers – Mary Poppins (1934) Read Review 23. Nathan Englander – Dinner At The Center of the Earth (2017) Read Review 24. Donna Tartt – The Goldfinch (2013) Read Review 25. Alan Moore - V for Vendetta (1990) Read Review 26. Rien Poortvliet - Hij was een van ons (1974) 27. Charles Dickens - David Copperfield (1849) Read [very short] Review 28. Yuval Noah Harari - Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (2017) Read Review 29. Cees Nooteboom – Rituals (1980) Read Review 30. Gerard Reve – The Evenings (1947) Read Review 31. Hanna Caspian – Gut Greifenau #2 (2018) 32. Roderick Cave – The History of Children’s Books in 100 Books (2017) Read Review 33. Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Book #1-2 (1894) Read Review 34. John Meade Falkner – Moonfleet (1898) Read Review 35. Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart (1959) Read Review 36. Vera Buck - Das Buch der vergessenen Artisten (2018) Read Review (in German) 37. Charlotte Brontë - The Professor (1857) Read Review 38. Mikhail Bulgakov – Heart of a Dog (1925) Read Review 39. Anton Chekhov – Uncle Vanya (1897) Read Review 40. E.M. Forster – A Passage to India (1924) Read Review 41. Bert Decorte – Thijl Ulenspieghel 42. Annie Proulx – The Green Accordeon (1996) Read Review 43. Nikolai Gogol – Petersburg Tales (1843) Read Review 44. Saul Bellow – Herzog (1964) Read Review 45. Baroness Orczy - Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) Read Review 46. Alexander Pushkin – The Captain‘s Daughter (1836) Read Review
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