Books I Read in 2019
- These are the books I read in 2019.
- They’re listed in the order of when I read them, newest at the top.
- Clicking on a book title will take you to the individual book page where you can read my favorite quotes and, if you’re interested in buying it, follow an (affiliate) link to Bookshop.org (my attempt to do my part in reducing Amazon usage).
*re-read
- Kitchen Confidential—Anthony Bourdain
- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—Becky Albertalli
- Sea Prayer—Khalid Hosseini
- The Other Einstein—Marie Benedict
- Wonder—R.J. Palacio. August is born with facial deformities which defines his very existence and experience of life. He starts public school for the first time at the beginning of middle school and has to tread water with forming relationships with people who initially struggle to accept him for his appearance—some of whom get their own point of view in the story to show why they make the choices they make and how they’re affected by having August in their lives. At the end of the book some older kids from a different school pick on him and several kids from his school, some of whom had previously bullied him, step in to stand up for him—and later on he wins his school’s award for being an upstanding person and standing with strength through his hardships.)
- P.S. I Still Love You—Jenny Han. Lara Jean and Peter are still dating and have defined their relationship as a more real thing rather than the fakery it began as. But Peter still seems hung up on his ex, Genevieve, and it ends up pushing Lara Jean into breaking up with him and rekindling feelings for an old friend, John, who had recently entered her life again. Lara Jean and John seem really good together, but Peter wants Lara Jean back and they end up being honest and realizing things about themselves and deciding to get back together and make their relationship work for real.
- 7. The Creative Habit—Twyla Tharp
Read In: 2019
Description: - Newspaper Blackout—Austin Kleon.
- 9. The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen—Lisa Gungor
Read In: 2020 + 2019
Description: - The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy—Mackenzi Lee
- 11. The Library Book—Susan Orlean
Read In: 2021 + 2019
Description: - Wild—Cheryl Strayed
- Small Fry—Lisa Brennan-Jobs
- Educated—Tara Westover
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing—Hank Green
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz—Heather Morris
- This Is Going To Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor—Adam Kay
- Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too—Jomny Sun
- Saving Alex: When I Was Fifteen I Told My Mormon Parents I Was Gay, and That’s When My Nightmare Began—Alex Cooper
- It’s Not Like It’s A Secret—Misa Sugiura
- Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids—Meghan Daum
- The Girl On The Train—Paula Hawkins
- How To Date Men When You Hate Men—Blythe Roberson
- I’m With The Band—Pamela Des Barres
- Crazy Rich Asians—Kevin Kwan
- Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was, and Who God Has Always Been—Jackie Hill Perry
- Daily Rituals—Mason Currey
- Bird By Bird—Annie Lamott
- Manfried the Man: A Graphic Novel—Caitlin Major
- Always and Forever, Lara Jean (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Book 3)—Jenny Han
- The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help—Amanda Palmer
- Keep Going—Austin Kleon
- Letters To A Young Poet—Rainer Maria Rilke
- Normal People—Sally Rooney
- The Mental Load—Emma
- Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore—Robin Sloan
- Ajax Penumbra 1969—Robin Sloan
- Sourdough—Robin Sloan
- China Rich Girlfriend—Kevin Kwan
- Rich People Problems—Kevin Kwan
- To Kill A Mockingbird—Harper Lee
- We Are Never Meeting In Real Life—Samantha Irby
- Leaving The Witness: Exiting Religion and Finding a Life—Amber Scorah
- Calypso—Davis Sedaris
- An American Marriage—Tayari Jones
- East of Eden—John Steinbeck
- Little Fires Everywhere—Celeste Ng
- Conversations with Friends—Sally Rooney
- Matilda—Roald Dahl
- Pulp—Robin Talley
- Maid—Stephanie Land
- El Deafo—Cece Bell
- Practical Magic—Alice Hoffman
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad—Robert T. Kiyosaki
- The Great Alone—Kristin Hannah
- Shark Tales—Barbara Corcoran
57. Vox—Christina Dalcher
58. Bird Box—Josh Mallerman
59. Me Before You—JoJo Moyes
Read In: 2019
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60. Animal Farm—George Orwell
Read In: 2019
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