2019 Books

4:56 pm 1 January 2020

I read 348 books in 2019, so it was a very good reading year. Most of my books ended up working out for me. Since my goal was to read 200 books for the year, I definitely achieved that.

 

Here are some of my favorite books from the year:

 

Manga:

The Bride Was a Boy - Chii I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up - Kodama Naoko  My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 1: The Sequel to My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness - Kabi Nagata  

 

Fantasy:

The Queen of Nothing - Holly Black  Stepsister - Jennifer Donnelly  A Dream So Dark - L. L. McKinney  

The Queens of Innis Lear - Tessa Gratton  The Wicked King - Holly Black  

 

Romance:

Red, White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston  The Bride Test - Helen Hoang  The Princess and the Fangirl - Ashley Poston  

Famous in a Small Town - Emma Mills  Well Met - Jen DeLuca  Sick Kids in Love - Hannah Moskowitz  

A Very Large Expanse of Sea - Tehereh Mafi  

 

Contemporary:

We Are the Perfect Girl - Ariel Kaplan  Emmy & Oliver - Robin Benway  Full Disclosure - Camryn Garrett  

Radio Silence - Alice Oseman  On the Come Up - Angie Thomas  Scars - Cheryl Rainfield  

 

Mystery:

Little White Lies - Jennifer Lynn Barnes  Deadly Little Scandals - Jennifer Lynn Barnes  

 

Poetry:

SHOUT - Laurie Halse Anderson 

 

Comics:

InSEXts Volume 1: Chrysalis - Marguerite Bennett,Mike Marts  Pumpkinheads - Rainbow Rowell,Faith Erin Hicks  Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1: High School Is Hell - Jordie Bellaire,Joss Whedon,Dan Mora  

They Called Us Enemy - Steven Scott,Justin Eisinger,George Takei,Harmony Becker  

 

Horror:

Feed - Mira Grant  Deadline - Mira Grant  Blackout - Mira Grant  

 

Nonfiction:

Eloquent Rage - Brittney Cooper  What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape - Sohaila Abdulali  Know My Name: A Memoir - Chanel Miller  

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement - Jodi Kantor,Megan Twohey  The Witches Are Coming - Lindy West  Charged: the New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration - Emily Bazelon  

I Like to Watch - Emily Nussbaum  Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman - Lindy West  Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger - Rebecca Traister  

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town - John Grisham  Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do - Jennifer Lynn Eberhardt  

2019 books