I have over twenty-five books on my bookshelves that I haven't got around to reading yet, so this year I made a promise to myself that I can't buy any more books this year until I've read those on this list.  It's as if I'm afraid of running out of things to read!  I wrote a list of the books I own and haven't managed to read yet and then I picked two a month to read over the upcoming year.  Some books are novels, others autobiographical and the rest are inspirational books.  I tried to pick a novel or autobiography and an inspirational one for each month, for a mixture of things to read.  The list is as follows.

January

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George (I'd started this at the end of last year) *And I finished this in the last week

Belgravia by Julian Fellows (I picked two novels for January because I didn't have a lot of the first one left but because I got flu in the first week of this year, I didn't read that much for a few weeks)

Feel the Fear by Susan Jeffers (recommended to me by the last CBT therapist I had in 2017 and I bought it then but only read the first three chapters at the time) 

February

Breakout at Stalingrad by Heinrich Gerlach (begun in January as I'd forgotten I had The Little Paris Bookshop to finish)

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

March

Dark Waters by Robin Blake

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (bought for me a few years ago as a birthday or Christmas gift from a friend)

April

The Choice - Even in Hell Hell Hope can Flower by Edith Eger

A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled by Ruby Wax

May

All That She Can See by Carrie Hope Fletcher

The Motivation Manifesto by Brendon Burchard

June

Billy and Me by Giovanna Fletcher

Journal to the Self 22 Paths to Personal Growth by Kathleen Adams, M.A.

July

Shadows of the Workhouse by Jennifer Worth

Writing Down the Bones - Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg

August

Always With Love by Giovanna Fletcher

Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies and Alison Leslie Gold

September

Untold Stories by Alan Bennett

Moving On by Sarah Ban Breathnach

October

The Co-op's Got Bananas! by Hunter Davis (This was a Christmas gift I bought for my mum a few years ago and she passed it onto me to read.  She was born at the end of World War 2 and has said in the past that she remembers when the shops got banana's back in, so I thought she might like to read this, and the title made me laugh :D )

Lifetonic by Jodie Shield

November

Into the Water by Paula Harris (Loved her first novel Girl on a Train which was made into a film)

The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle

December

One Day in December by Josie Silver

Winters Snow (a novella) by Carrie Hope Fletcher

Christmas with Billy and Me (a novella) by Giovanna Fletcher

Something More - Excavating Your Authentic Self by Sarah Ban Breathnach

Should I somehow manage to read all of these, I do have a handful of other books that I also haven't read yet but are on my list of books to read in 2020, and so I can always pick some off of there.  

What books are you currently reading or what books are on your list to read this year?