A Year in Reading: David Heska Wanbli Weiden

At the beginning of this strange and disjunctive year, I decided—for the first time—to keep a formal list of all the books I would read over the course of twelve months. When I started it in January, I was preparing for the release of my debut novel, Winter Counts, and thought it might be fun to remember the books I’d read during this exciting time.

Looking at the list now, I can recall where I was for each book I read in January, February, and March. Coffeeshops, restaurants, bars. The pleasant buzz of strangers chatting and soft music in the background. Naturally, in addition to reading, in the first few months of 2020 I also spent a fair amount of time thinking about and planning my book tour:  contemplating which cities to visit; pondering which passages of the novel to read; feeling mild anxiety over the possibility of reading at a bookstore in