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!