These are some of the books I’ve started this year, and which I’m determined to finish this year. Well, maybe I’ll settle for reading a bit more of them at least. I’ll be writing about each of them in a blog post soon.

• Story Craft (Writing how-to)

• How To Write Short (Writing how-to)

• The Go-Between (Fiction)

• You Talkin’ To Me? The Unruly History of New York English (Culture and language)

• James Baldwin: Living in Fire (Political Biography)