Booklist 2019

My goal each year is to read between forty and sixty books. Books I have particularly enjoyed are marked in bold.


  • Adeyemi, Tomi. Children of Blood and Bone.
  • Alyan, Hala. Salt Houses.
  • Aslan, Reza. God: A Human History.
  • Atkinson, Kate. Case Histories.
  • Atkinson, Kate. One Good Turn.
  • Bardugo, Leigh. King of Scars.
  • Bardugo, Leigh. Six of Crows.
  • Bardugo, Leigh. Crooked Kingdom.
  • Bardugo, Leigh. Shadow and Bone.
  • Bardugo, Leigh. Siege and Storm.
  • Bardugo, Leigh. Ruin and Rising.
  • Bryson, Bill. One Summer: America, 1927.
  • Buttigieg, Pete. The Shortest Way Home.
  • Chakraborty, S.A. Kingdom of Copper.
  • Collins, Jim. Good to Great.
  • Edugyan, Esi. Washington Black.
  • Enns, Peter. The Bible Tells Me So…
  • Fuller, Claire. Bitter Orange.
  • Harris, Kamala. The Truths We Hold.
  • Heller, Peter. The River.
  • Herbert, Frank. Dune.
  • James, Marlon. Black Leopard, Red Wolf.
  • Khorram, Adib. Darius the Great Is Not Okay.
  • Lally, Caitriona. Eggshells.
  • Lencioni, Patrick. The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive.
  • MacLean, Sarah. The Rogue Not Taken.
  • Makkai, Rebecca. The Great Believers.
  • McCarthy, Sarah. Shadows of Magic.
  • Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls.
  • Novik, Naomi. Spinning Silver.
  • Novik, Naomi. Uprooted.
  • Obama, Michelle. Becoming.
  • Older, Daniel José. Shadowshaper.
  • Perry, Sarah. The Essex Serpent.
  • Perry, Sarah. Melmoth.
  • Pink, Daniel. Drive.
  • Sanders, Lisa. Every Patient Tells a Story.
  • Sloan, Robin. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore.
  • Walker, Karen Thompson. The Dreamers.
  • Westover, Tara. Educated.
  • Wickman, Gino. Traction.

I enjoy a wide range of books, and suggestions are always welcome. Happy reading!

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