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!