Read in 2019

Check out what I read in 2019! These are broken down by genre then author for easy navigating.


Fiction

Agatha Christie
– And Then There Were None
Dead Man’s Folly
Death on the Nile
– Hallowe’en Party
– Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories
– Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
– Peril at End House
– The ABC Murders
– The Harlequin Tea Set
– The Last Seance
– The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Andrzej Sapkowski
– The Last Wish

Ann Kidd Taylor
– The Shark Club

Arthur Conan Doyle
– The Lost World

Beatriz Williams
– The Golden Hour
– The Summer Wives

Becky Albertalli
Love, Simon
– What If It’s Us

Benjamin Alire Saenz
– Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

C.S. Lewis
– The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

Caleb Carr
The Alienist
– The Angel of Darkness

Catherine Banner
– The House at the Edge of Night

Celeste Ng
– Everything I Never Told You
Little Fires Everywhere

Chanel Cleeton
– Next Year in Havana
When We Left Cuba

Christina Lauren
– The Unhoneymooners

Daniel Bettridge
– A Travel Guide to the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros

Delia Owens
– Where the Crawdads Sing

Diana Gabaldon
Outlander
Dragonfly in Amber

Elizabeth Gilbert
– City of Girls

Elyssa Friedland
The Floating Feldmans

Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Gillian Flynn
– Dark Places
– Gone Girl
– Sharp Objects

Grant Ginder
– Honestly, We Meant Well
The People We Hate at the Wedding

Helen Hoang
The Bride Test
– The Kiss Quotient

Hunter S. Thompson
– Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Jean Kwok
– Searching for Sylvie Lee

Jeff Vandermeer
Annihilation
Authority

Jennifer Close
– Girls in White Dresses

Jenny Han
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

John Marrs
– The One

Joseph Heller
– Catch-22

Joshilyn Jackson
– Never Have I Ever

Juliet Grames
– The Seven of Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

Karen McManus
– One of Us is Lying

Karo Hamalainen
Cruel is the Night

Kevin Kwan
Crazy Rich Asians
China Rich Girlfriend
– Rich People Problems

Kristen Arnett
– Mostly Dead Things

Leigh Bardugo
Ninth House

Liane Moriarty
Big Little Lies
Nine Perfect Strangers

Linda Holmes
Evvie Drake Starts Over

Louisa May Alcott
Little Women

Maddie Dawson
Matchmaking for Beginners

Madeline Miller
Circe
Galatea
– The Song of Achilles

Marcy Dermansky
Very Nice

Maria Semple
– Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Mary Kay Andrews
The High Tide Club

Nora Roberts
Year One

Ottessa Moshfegh
– My Year of Rest and Relaxation

P.L. Travers
Mary Poppins

Pam Jenoff
The Lost Girls of Paris

Sally Rooney
– Normal People

Sarah Dunant
Blood and Beauty
In The Name of the Family

Sarah J. Maas
Throne of Glass
Crown of Midnight

Sherman Alexie
– The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Shirley Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House

Sophie Hannah
Closed Casket
– The Monogram Murders
– The Mystery of Three Quarters

Sophie Mackintosh
– The Water Cure

Stephanie Danler
Sweetbitter

Stephen King
Pet Sematary

Susan Mallery
– California Girls
The Girls of Mischief Bay
– The Summer of Sunshine and Margot

Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar

Tara Conklin
The Last Romantics

Taylor Jenkins Reid
Daisy Jones and the Six
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo


Nonfiction

Amy Stewart
– The Drunken Botanist: The Plants that Create the World’s Greatest Drinks
Wicked Bugs
– Wicked Plants

Bryant Urstadt
– The Greatest Hockey Stories Ever Told

Bryn Barnard
– Outbreak: Plagues that Changed History

Cait Murphy
– A History of American Sports in 100 Objects

Caitlin Doughty
– From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Casper Henderson
– The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary

Cassandra Eason
– Fabulous Creatures, Mythical Monsters and Animal Power Symbols

Cecelia Ruiz
– The Book of Extraordinary Deaths

Charles Phillips
– Unsolved Deaths

Christopher Lucas
– Top Disney

Christopher S. Stewart
– Jungleland

Co+Life
– 100 Places to Go Before They Disappear

Colin Woodard
– The Real Pirates of the Caribbean

Derek Nelson
– Off the Map: The Curious History of Place Names

Donald R. Prothero
– The Story of Life in 25 Fossils
The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks

Douglas Preston
– The Lost City of the Monkey God

Emma Southon
– Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World

Jason Porath
– Rejected Princesses
Tough Mothers

Jen Sincero
– You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Live an Awesome Life

Jennifer Wright
– It Ended Badly: 13 of the Worst Breakups in History
Killer Fashion: Poisonous Petticoats, Strangulating Scarves, and Other Deadly Garments Throughout History

John B. Nici
– Famous Works of Art and How They Got That Way

John Berendt
– Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

John Steinbeck
– Travels with Charley in Search of America

Jon Krakauer
– Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

Joshua Foer et al.
– Atlas Obscura: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders

Judy Hall
– Crystal Zodiac

Kara Cooney
– The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt

Karen Abbott
– Liar Temptress Soldier Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

Karen Karbo
– In Praise of Difficult Women

Ken Dryden
– The Game

Lara Prior-Palmer
– Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race

Laura Shapiro
– What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

Lauren Graham
– Talking as Fast as I Can

Leslie Carroll
– Inglorious Royal Marriages
Notorious Royal Marriages

M.J. Trow
– Boudicca: The Warrior Queen

Mackenzi Lee
– Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World

Marc Myers
– Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and Pop

Martin Gitlin
– Powerful Moments in Sports

Mary Roach
– Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Nancy Goldstone
– The Rival Queens: Catherine de Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom

Neil MacGregor
– A History of the World in 100 Objects

Paul D. Taylor & Aaron O’Dea
– A History of Life in 100 Fossils

Peter Earle
– The Pirate Wars

Rachel Ignotofsky
– Women in Art

Readers Digest
– Vanished Civilizations

Sam Maggs
– Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors, and Trailblazers Who Changed History

Sam Pilger & Leo Moynihan
– Unsolved Enigmas

Sam Stall
– 100 Dogs Who Changed Civilization: History’s Most Influential Canines

Sarah Gristwood
– Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

Sarah Lohman
– Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine

Simon Sinek
– Start With Why

Tom Standage
– An Edible History of Humanity


Drama, Poetry, & More

Alison Davies
Written in the Stars: Constellations, Facts, and Folklore
Mythology/Lore

Arthur Miller
The Crucible
Drama

Barbara H. Solomon & Eileen Panetta
Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural
Mythology/Lore

Emily Dickinson
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Poetry

J.K. Rowling
The Crimes of Grindelwald
Drama

Neil Gaiman
Norse Mythology
Mythology/Lore

Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey
Poetry

trans. Ernest J.B. Kirtlan
The Story of Beowulf
Poetry

William Shakespeare
The Tempest
Drama


I recommend most of these works – no point in wasting time reading a bad book. But some I tried and tried and could not power through… any questions about if I think something’s worth the time, just ask!