What is on your reading list this month?

How are you approaching the new reading year? Eagerly? Obsessively? Or slowly but surely?

I recently started doing research for a book I’ll be writing later this year. A lot of my reading is geared towards that goal.

Since 1st January, I’ve finished:

• Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee
• The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography by Margaret Lane
• Humans of New York: Stories by Brandon Stanton
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• The Women Who Made Television Funny: Ten Stars of 1950s Sitcoms by David C. Tucker
• The Art of Asking: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help by Amanda Palmer
• The 1950s Kitchen by Kathryn Ferry
• The 1950s American Home by Diane Boucher

I’m in the midst of reading:

• Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr (not my normal cup of tea)
• Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain’s Great Modern Painter by Geordie Greig
• Coreography: A Memoir by Corey Feldman (reading it on a dare to myself…but it is actually not bad)

To be read by 31st January:

• The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink by Pamela Katz
• 1950s American Fashion by Jonathan Walford
• The 1950s and 1960s (Costume and Fashion Source Books) by Anne Rooney
• Mae Murray: The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips by Michael G. Ankerich
• Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s by Gerald Nachman

What is your favourite book this month?

Which book on your list are you most looking forward to reading?

Please share with me in the comments!

Happy reading.