This year brought a long commute, which I was not (and am not) a fan of, but I will say, it did allow for some quality reading time. And of course, even time I wasn’t killing was sometimes spent reading, because, well, yay books!
Without further ado, here’s what I consumed (in order) in 2019:
- Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Calypso, David Sedaris
- Becoming, Michelle Obama
- The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas
- The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, Rowan Ricardo Phillips
- The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, Leonard Mlodinow
- The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir, Bill Bryson
- The Comic Hero’s Journey, Steve Kaplan
- The Sopranos Sessions, Matt Zoller Seitz & Alan Sepinwall
- The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing, Merve Emre
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, Lori Gottlieb
- The Valedictorian of Being Dead: The True Story of Dying Ten Times To Live, Heather B. Armstrong
- Gingerbread, Helen Oyeyemi
- Normal People, Sally Rooney
- Charlie Savage, Roddy Doyle
- I Love You, Nice To Meet You: A Guy and a Girl Give the Lowdown on Coupling Up, Lori Gottlieb and Kevin Bleyer
- Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories, Raphael Bob-Waksberg
- Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide, Karen Kilgariff & Georgia Hardstark
- Mrs. Everything, Jennifer Weiner
- I Miss You When I Blink: Essays, Mary Laura Philpott
- Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line, Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham
- Educated, Tara Westover
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
- The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth, Josh Levin
- Veronica Mars: Mr. Kiss and Tell, Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham
- Three Women, Lisa Taddeo
- The Friend, Sigrid Nunez
- Fleishman is in Trouble, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein
- Nice Try: Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results, Josh Gondelman
- Had It Coming: What’s Fair in the Age of #MeToo?, Robyn Doolittle
- Batman: The Long Halloween, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
- Wanderers, Chuck Wendig
- Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark, Cecelia Watson
- Spider-Man: Life Story, Chip Zdarsky & Mark Bagley
- Patsy, Nicole Dennis-Benn
- It’s Garry Shandling’s Book, edited by Judd Apatow
- Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the ‘80s Changed Hollywood Forever, Nick de Semlyen