2019 Books in Review

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

1. Harvest Home by Tom Tryon (1973)
2. Shooting Stars
   • 01 Cinnamon
   • 02 Ice
   • 05 Falling Stars
3. Wildflowers
   • Misty
   • Jade
   • Cat
4. Jeffrey Archer
   • And Thereby Hangs a Tale
   • Kane and Abel  (Book 1)
   • The Prodigal Daughter (Book 2)
5. Themis Files
   • Waking Gods (Themis Files #2) by Sylvain Neuvel
   • Only Human (Themis Files #3) by Sylvain Neuvel
6. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
7. Orphans
   • Orphans 02 Crystal – V. C. Andrews
8. The Tomb Of Shadows – Seven Wonders Book 3
9. Kate Mosse – Sepulchre
10. The Silent Ones by Ali Knight
11. The Making of Us – Lisa Jewell
12. The Girl Who Ignored Ghosts – K.C. Tansley
13. The Girl Next Door by Ruth Rendell
14. How to Hang a Witch – Adriana Mather
15. Karin Slaughter
    • The Kept Woman
    • Pretty Girls
    • Pieces of Her
16. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
    • Match Me if You Can
    • Dream a Little Dream
17. The Devil and the Deep by Julie Ann Walker (and a bit of sex science)
18. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
19. Drood by Dan Simmons
20. Liar, Liar by M.J. Arlidge
21. Death and the Afterlife – Clifford A. Pickover
22. The Girl with all the Gifts * M.R. Carey
23. Dean Koontz
    • Watchers
    • Winter Moon: A Novel
    • The Crooked Staircase
    • The Bone Farm
    • The Vision
    • Night Chills
24. Stephen King
    • The New Lieutenant’s Rap
    • Lisey’s Story
    • Elevation
    • The Plant 
    • Lilja’s Library: The World of Stephen King by Hans-Åke Lilja
    • The Outsider (Finders Keepers)
    • Misery
    • End of Watch (The Bill Hodges Trilogy Book 3)
25. Empty Throne Book 1 – Those Above
26. Empty Throne Book 2 – Those Below
27. Sand (Sand #1-5) by Hugh Howey
28. The Paris Enigma by Pablo de Santis
29. On the Move: A Life – Oliver Sacks
30. Parrot and Olivier in America – Peter Carey
31. Ragnar Lothbrok and a History of the Vikings – Noah Brown
32. Star Wars Psychology: Dark Side of the Mind edited by TRAVIS LANGLEY
33. The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee – Sarah Silverman
34. Mortal Engines – [The Hungry City Chronicles #1] – Philip Reeve
35. Haruki Murakami
    • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    • Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
    • Pinball, 1973
36. A Simple Plan by Scott B. Smith
37. Rebel Mechanics – Shanna Swendson
38. Nicholas Sparks * The Guardian
39. Sadie – Courtney Summers
40. The Trouble with Ally * Sheila Norton
41. Aldous Huxley – Island
42. Milk And Honey
    • Milk and Honey Poem by Rupi Kaur
    • Rupi Kaur – Milk and Honey
    • Rumi Kaur – Milk and Honey Poetry
    • Milk and Honey – Rupi Kaur #2
43. Holes By Louis Sachar
44. Every Day by David Levithan (or the tale of the body switcher)
45. Ghosts (Hell Divers, #2) by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
46. Fyodor Dostoyevsky – The Eternal Husband
47. The Visitors – Catherine Burns
48. The Hate U Give * Angie Thomas
49. Deep Freeze (Virgil Flowers #10) by John Sandford
50. Bentley Little
    • The Mailman
    • The Association
51. Suicide Forest (World’s Scariest Places #1) by Jeremy Bates
52. The Quiet American by Graham Greene.
53. The Steel Shark (Joe Tesla #4) by Rebecca Cantrell
54. Thicker than Blood – Madeline Sheehan and Claire C. Riley
55. The Daemon Prism: A Novel of the Collegia Magica
56. Say Nothing by Brad Parks
57. Jack du Brul – River Of Ruin
58. The Dumb Things Smart People Do with Their Money, Thirteen Ways to Right Your Financial Wrongs – Jill Schlesinger
59. Philip K Dick – The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
60. I See You by Clare Mackintosh
61. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
62. Gerry Spence – How To Argue And Win Every Time
63. Voodoo Eyes by Nick Stone
64. A Walk Across the Sun by Corban Addison
65. Neil Gaiman – Neverwhere
66. Vanishing Girls
67. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
68. Black Klansman – Memoir by Ron Stallworth
69. Margaret Atwood – The Heart Goes Last or the story of the robot Elvis sex toy and the sex chicken
70. The Shape Of Water by Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus
71. Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse 5
72. One Day – David Nicholls
73. Laugh and Learn – 95 Ways to Use Humor for More Effective Teaching and Training
74. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton
75. Lord of the Rings
    • The Fellowship of the Ring
    • The Two Towers
    • Return of The King
76. How I Met My Son: A Journey Through Adoption by Rosalind Powell
77. Basic Instinct by Richard Osborne
78. Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack
79. Arrival: Film tie-in book by Ted Chiang
80. The Gift of Fear – Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
81. A man called OVE by Fredrik Backman
82. Lost and Found by Danielle Steel
83. Safely Home by Randy Alcorn
84. Not Dead Yet A Manifesto for Old Age – Julia Neuberger –
85. The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer
86. The Test – Sylvain Neuvel (Short Story Review)
87. If Not For You – Debbie Macomber
88. Bound Together – Christine Feehan
89. Night Shift (Night Tales #1) by Nora Roberts
90. 13 Tales of Terror – Algernon Blackwood
91. The Devil’s Triangle – Catherine Coulter
92. The Map of Love – Ahdaf Soueif
93. An offer you can’t refuse * Jill Mansell
94. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter – Kim Edwards
95. Death at Dawn * Caro Peacock
96. Can you keep a secret? * Sophie Kinsella
97. If my father loved me * Rosie Thomas
98. Blessed are the Cheesemakers * Sarah Kate Lynch
99. Max Brooks – Zombie Survival Guide (Der Zombie Survival Guide – Überleben unter Untoten)
100. Twilight of the Gods (Audiobook) by Erich von Daniken
101. 40 Obsession In Death * J.D.Rob
102. 48 Connections in Death * J.D. Robb
103. Malice by Griffin Hayes
104. The Unnoticeables by Robert Brockway
105. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker
106. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
107. Spare Room * Dreda Say Mitchell
108. Double Dexter (#6) Jeff Lindsay
109. Critical Thinking – Bolinda Beginner Guides – By Sharon M. Kaye
110. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
111. When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
112. Vernon God Little – DBC Pierre
113. Alice Munro’s Best: Selected Stories by Alice Munro
114. Sylvia Plath * The Bell Jar
115. Robert A. Heinlein – No Bands Playing, No Flags Flying
116. Deceptive by Emily Lloyd-Jones
117. David Baldacci – FaceOff
118. Memoirs Of A Geisha – Arthur Golden (1998)
119. Johann Hari – Lost Connections (depression and anxiety)
120. The Gods Never Left Us: The Long Awaited Sequel to the Worldwide Best-seller Chariots of the Gods by von Daniken, Erich
121. The SIX – Mark Alpert
122. Zero G by Dan Wells
123. Symptoms of being human * by Jeff Garvin
124. Fate’s Forsaken – Poison (Prequel)
125. Authority – Jeff VanderMeer
126. The Left Hand of Darkness * Ursula Le Guin
127. Kelsey Rae Dimberg-Girl in the Rearview Mirror
128. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
129. William H. Webber
     • Last Stand: Surviving America’s Collapse
     • Last Stand: Patriots (Book 2)
130. John Ajvide Lindqvist
     • I Am Behind You 
     • I Always Find You
131. Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes
132. Doddie Smith – I capture the castle
133. Orson Scott Card * Tales of Alvin Maker * Book 6 – The Crystal City
134. The Tales of Alvin Maker: Grinning Man
135. The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
136. The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
137. Hell House by Richard Matheson
138. Song of Kali by Dan Simmons
139. Breathless: A Novel Dean Koontz
140. Everything About You by Heather Child
141. 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

1. The Scarlet Gospels
2. The Association
3. Suicide Forest

Top 3 Sci-Fi

1. Arrival: Film tie-in book by Ted Chiang
2. Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
3. Waking Gods (Themis Files #2) by Sylvain Neuvel