Jumping Into January (Library Book Haul)

I visited the library on December 28. I snuggled into an armchair and pulled out my iPad I opened the Goodreads and library apps. I was cross-referencing my 2016-maybes shelf with the library’s available books and ebooks (if I can borrow a book as an ebook, I save it for when I’m travelling). I drew up a list, then headed out into the stacks. I enjoy browsing books on GoodReads, but holding a book in my hands and reading a few pages remains the only way I can truly evaluate a book’s potential. I had great success with this final visit of 2015. I picked up 15 books, including middle grade, young adult, fiction and non-fiction. One book I began to read while waiting for my ride and I finished it in one sitting! Here are my remaining books:

• Solving the Procrastination Puzzle by Timothy A. Pychyl
• Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory
• Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order by Noam Chomsky
• The Magician’s Elephant by Kate Dicamillo
• Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
• The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
• Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of America’s Favorite Food by Steve Striffler
• Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma
• The Karluk’s Last Voyage by Robert A. Bartlett
• Girl at War by Sara Novic
• Uprooted by Naomi Novik
• The Wolf Border by Sara Hall
• Of Bees and Mist by Eric Setiawan

I hope to fit a lot of good reading into this month, as I’ll be travelling from February to May with no guaranteed access to books I want to read. This library stack should give me a solid start! What do you think of my picks? Do you have any reading plans for the first weeks of 2016?