2019 has been quite a good year for reading and I’ve managed to get my one-book-a-week resolution kept for the whole year. What’s even better, with a combination of audiobooks and e-books, I have managed to surpass my 52 book limit.
I think I did even better than 2018.
Books Read in 2019
- Harvest Home by Tom Tryon (1973)
- Shooting Stars
- Wildflowers
- Jeffrey Archer
- Themis Files
- Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
- Orphans
- The Tomb Of Shadows – Seven Wonders Book 3
- Kate Mosse – Sepulchre
- The Silent Ones by Ali Knight
- The Making of Us – Lisa Jewell
- The Girl Who Ignored Ghosts – K.C. Tansley
- The Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell
- How to Hang a Witch – Adriana Mather
- Karin Slaughter
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
- The Devil and the Deep by Julie Ann Walker (and a bit of sex science)
- Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
- Drood by Dan Simmons
- Liar, Liar by M.J. Arlidge
- Death and the Afterlife – Clifford A. Pickover
- The Girl with all the Gifts * M.R. Carey
- Dean Koontz
- Stephen King
- Empty Throne Book 1 – Those Above
- Empty Throne Book 2 – Those Below
- Sand (Sand #1-5) by Hugh Howey
- The Paris Enigma by Pablo de Santis
- On the Move: A Life – Oliver Sacks
- Parrot and Olivier in America – Peter Carey
- Ragnar Lothbrok and a History of the Vikings – Noah Brown
- Star Wars Psychology: Dark Side of the Mind edited by TRAVIS LANGLEY
- The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee – Sarah Silverman
- Mortal Engines – [The Hungry City Chronicles #1] – Philip Reeve
- Haruki Murakami
- A Simple Plan by Scott B. Smith
- Rebel Mechanics – Shanna Swendson
- Nicholas Sparks * The Guardian
- Sadie – Courtney Summers
- The Trouble with Ally * Sheila Norton
- Aldous Huxley – Island
- Milk And Honey
- Holes By Louis Sachar
- Every Day by David Levithan (or the tale of the body switcher)
- Ghosts (Hell Divers, #2) by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky – The Eternal Husband
- The Visitors – Catherine Burns
- The Hate U Give * Angie Thomas
- Deep Freeze (Virgil Flowers #10) by John Sandford
- Bentley Little
- Suicide Forest (World’s Scariest Places #1) by Jeremy Bates
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene.
- The Steel Shark (Joe Tesla #4) by Rebecca Cantrell
- Thicker than Blood – Madeline Sheehan and Claire C. Riley
- The Daemon Prism: A Novel of the Collegia Magica
- Say Nothing by Brad Parks
- Jack du Brul – River Of Ruin
- The Dumb Things Smart People Do with Their Money, Thirteen Ways to Right Your Financial Wrongs – Jill Schlesinger
- Philip K Dick – The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
- I See You by Clare Mackintosh
- Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Gerry Spence – How To Argue And Win Every Time
- Voodoo Eyes by Nick Stone
- A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison
- Neil Gaiman – Neverwhere
- Vanishing Girls
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Black Klansman – Memoir by Ron Stallworth
- Margaret Atwood – The Heart Goes Last or the story of the robot Elvis sex toy and the sex chicken
- The Shape Of Water by Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus
- Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse 5
- One Day – David Nicholls
- Laugh and Learn – 95 Ways to Use Humor for More Effective Teaching and Training
- The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton
- Lord of the Rings
- How I Met My Son: A Journey Through Adoption by Rosalind Powell
- Basic Instinct by Richard Osborne
- Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack
- Arrival: Film tie-in book by Ted Chiang
- The Gift of Fear – Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
- A man called OVE by Fredrik Backman
- Lost and Found by Danielle Steel
- Safely Home by Randy Alcorn
- Not Dead Yet A Manifesto for Old Age – Julia Neuberger –
- The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer
- The Test – Sylvain Neuvel (Short Story Review)
- If Not For You – Debbie Macomber
- Bound Together – Christine Feehan
- Night Shift (Night Tales #1) by Nora Roberts
- 13 Tales of Terror – Algernon Blackwood
- The Devil’s Triangle – Catherine Coulter
- The Map of Love – Ahdaf Soueif
- An offer you can’t refuse * Jill Mansell
- The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
- Death at Dawn * Caro Peacock
- Can you keep a secret? * Sophie Kinsella
- If my father loved me * Rosie Thomas
- Blessed are the Cheesemakers * Sarah Kate Lynch
- Max Brooks – Zombie Survival Guide (Der Zombie Survival Guide – Überleben unter Untoten)
- Twilight of the Gods (Audiobook) by Erich von Daniken
- 40 Obsession In Death * J.D.Rob
- 48 Connections in Death * J.D. Robb
- Malice by Griffin Hayes
- The Unnoticeables by Robert Brockway
- The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- Spare Room * Dreda Say Mitchell
- Double Dexter (#6) Jeff Lindsay
- Critical Thinking – Bolinda Beginner Guides – By Sharon M. Kaye
- Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
- When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Vernon God Little – DBC Pierre
- Alice Munro’s Best: Selected Stories by Alice Munro
- Sylvia Plath * The Bell Jar
- Robert A. Heinlein – No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying
- Deceptive by Emily Lloyd-Jones
- David Baldacci – FaceOff
- Memoirs Of A Geisha – Arthur Golden (1998)
- Johann Hari – Lost Connections (depression and anxiety)
- The Gods Never Left Us: The Long Awaited Sequel to the Worldwide Best-seller Chariots of the Gods by von Daniken, Erich
- The SIX – Mark Alpert
- Zero G by Dan Wells
- Symptoms of being human * by Jeff Garvin
- Fate’s Forsaken – Poison (Prequel)
- Authority – Jeff VanderMeer
- The Left Hand of Darkness * Ursula Le Guin
- Kelsey Rae Dimberg-Girl in the Rearview Mirror
- The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
- William H. Webber
- John Ajvide Lindqvist
- Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes
- Doddie Smith – I capture the castle
- Orson Scott Card * Tales of Alvin Maker * Book 6 – The Crystal City
- The Tales of Alvin Maker: Grinning Man
- The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
- The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
- Hell House by Richard Matheson
- Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
- Breathless: A Novel Dean Koontz
- Everything About You by Heather Child
- Artemis by Andy Weir
Books with Movie Adaptations:
- The Hate U Give * Angie Thomas
- Mortal Engines – [The Hungry City Chronicles #1] – Philip Reeve
- The Girl with all the Gifts by M.R. Carey
- Every Day by David Levithan
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene.
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Neil Gaiman – Neverwhere
- Black Klansman – Memoir by Ron Stallworth
- The Shape Of Water by Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus
- One Day – David Nicholls
- Lord of the Rings
- Basic Instinct by Richard Osborne
- Arrival: Film tie-in book by Ted Chiang
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
- Memoirs Of A Geisha – Arthur Golden (1998)
- The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Best Books (would re-read)
- The Test – Sylvain Neuvel (Short Story Review)
- A man called OVE by Fredrik Backman
- The Hate U Give * Angie Thomas
- Every Day by David Levithan
- A Simple Plan by Scott B. Smith
- Harvest Home by Tom Tryon
- Waking Gods (Themis Files #2) by Sylvain Neuvel
- Only Human (Themis Files #3) by Sylvain Neuvel
- Sylvia Plath * The Bell Jar
- Johann Hari – Lost Connections (depression and anxiety)
- Lord of the Rings
Top 3 Horror
Top 3 Sci-Fi
- Arrival: Film tie-in book by Ted Chiang
- Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Waking Gods (Themis Files #2) by Sylvain Neuvel