Books of 2019

1. Stop Starting Over: Transform Your Fitness by Mastering Your Psychology by Devan Kline (NF)
2. A Map for Wrecked Girls by Jessica Taylor

3. Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton

4. Still Lives by Maria Hummel
5. The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo
6. Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After by Heather Harpham
7. All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
8. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
9. Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
10.The Library Book by Susan Orlean (NF)
11.Unscripted by Claire Handscombe
12.Archenemies by Marissa Meyer (YA)
13.I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson (memoir-ish)
14.The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate (YA)
15.My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir through (Un)Popular Culture by Guy Branum (memoir)
16.Famous in a Small Town by Emma Mills (YA)
17.This Adventure Ends by Emma Mills (YA)
18.Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
19.Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
20.Five Presidents: My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford by Clint Hill (NF)
21.An Unconditional Freedom by Alyssa Cole
22.Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
23.Less by Andrew Sean Greer
24.First & Then by Emma Mills (YA)
25.1st to Die by James Patterson
26.Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
27.Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
28.Beyond the Point by Claire Gibson
29.The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
30.Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills
31.If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
32.The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo
33. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
34.Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life: Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush (memoir)
35.The Huntress by Kate Quinn
36.Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West (Memoir)
37.Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
38.The Mountain Between Us by Charles Martin
39.Any Man by Amber Tamblyn
40.Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
41.The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
42.The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle
43.Kissing Ted Callahan by Amy Spalding (YA)
44.Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham (YA)
45.The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton
46.The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
47.On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (YA)
48.The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit by Graham Joyce
49.There There by Tommy Orange
50.City of Girls by Elizabeth Gillbert
51.Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
52.Heartburn by Nora Ephron
53.No Hard Feelings: Emotions at Work by Liz Fosslien (NF)
54.Hey Ladies! The Story of 8 Best Friends, 1 Year and Way, Way Too Many Emails by Michelle Markowitz
55.Scarlett Undercover by Jennifer Latham (YA)
56.The Memory Trees by Kali Wallace
57.The Whisper Network by Chandler Baker
58.The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
59.The Clay Lion by Amalie Jahn (YA)
60.Evie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
61.The Last House Guest by Megan Miranda
62.Sherwood by Meagan Spooner (YA)
63.In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware
64.The Party by Robyn Harding
65.The First Mistake by Sandie Jones
66.The River by Peter Heller
67.Never Have I Ever by Joshilyn Jackson
68.Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
69.A Nearly Normal Family by M.T. Edvardsson
70.The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory
71.The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
72.The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine
73.The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
74.Three Sisters by Susan Mallery
75.Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey
76.The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
77.Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
78.Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness (memoir)
79.When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
80.An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena
81.Christmas Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
82.The Institute by Stephen King
83.Supernova by Marissa Meyer
84.Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
85.The Cactus by Sarah Haywood
86.The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
87.Star-Crossed by Minnie Darke
88.The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
89.Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
90.Final Girls by Riley Sager
91.One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
92.Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell (YA)
93.Stillwater by Nicole Helget
94.Conviction by Denise Mina
95.Not the Girl You Marry by Andie Christopher
96.The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
97.Legacy (YA) by Shannon Messenger
98.Wires and Nerve by Marissa Meyer (YA)
99.Gone Rogue by Marissa Meyer (YA)
100. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
101. My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul (Memoir)

According to GoodReads, that’s 35,727 pages.

Honestly, it was not a fantastic year of reading. A lot of just okay books. So, the above list is a lot to wade through, let me boil it down to my top 10 favorite books for you (in no particular order):
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey (best rom com in a long time!)
Lock Every Door by Riley Sager (tied with Turn of the Key for best thrillers!)
Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
Giver of the Stars by Jojo Moyes
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Five Presidents by Clint Hill (Best non-fiction)
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham (YA)

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