Read all the books!

Speaking of resolutions, here's a list of all the books I read last year, and the ones I've read so far this year. I don't know what other people read, but I think my reading list is pretty awesome!

Here's the list from last year:
1) I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Eduction and Was Shoot by the Taliban, Malala Yousafzai
2) Life Inside a Medieval Castle, Joseph Gies and Frances Gies
3) Paper: An Elegy, Ian Sansom
4) The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe, Romain Puertolas
5) The Man Who Knew Infinity, Robert Kanigel
6) Modern Death, Haider Warraich
7) The Secrete Language of Doctors, Brian Goldman
8) The Dragon of Handale, Cassandra Clark
9) The Little Book of Hygge, Meik Wiking
10) The Introvert's Way: Living a Quiet Life in a Noisy World, Sophia Dembling
11) The Wisdom of the Shire, Noble Smith
12) 25 gram geluk: hoe een egeltje je leven kan veranderen, Massimo Vacchetta and Antonella Tomaselli
13) De Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien, translated by Max Schuchart
14) Life Below Stairs: True Lives of Edwardian Servants, Alison Maloney
15) Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland

What I've read so far in 2018:
1) Modern Romance, Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg
2) The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England, Ian Mortimer
3) The Little Book of Lykke, Meik Wiking
4) The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton
5) Wij alleen, Toon Tellegen

Out of everything I have ever read, the last one on the list, Wij alleen, has by far become my favorite book. I think that is really saying something; for years my ultimate favorites have been the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. I picked Wij alleen up at a book store at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam on a whim while I was waiting for my flight to board at the end of my holiday last October. I know people say not to do it, but I judged this book solely on it's cover and I'm so glad I did! I don't know if there are any English translations of Toon Tellegen's work - for all you English speakers our there I hope there are. I love reading, but it's not very often that a book touches me in the way this one did. It's full of short stories, usually 2-4 pages long, that really highlight the concept of togetherness. I wish it were longer! As of right now, his books are the first I'm going to buy next year when my year of no new books is over!