My Year in Reading—2019
2 min readFeb 4, 2020
The books I read + loved in 2019.
Note: Books listed are not stack-ranked within their categories.
Top five!
- The Folded Clock…Heidi Julavits
- Trick Mirror…Jia Tolentino
- How to Do Nothing…Jenny Odell
- A Place for Us…Fatima Farheen Mirza
- Trip…Tao Lin
Honorable Mentions
- White Fragility…Robin DiAngelo
- The Recovering…Leslie Jamison
- Normal People…Sally Rooney
- The Moon is Almost Full…Chana Bloch
Books You Could Gift to Almost Anyone! They Are So Good and Versatile!
- How to Change Your Mind…Michael Pollan
- Good Talk…Mira Jacob
- Why We Sleep…Matthew Walker
- Am I Overthinking This?…Michelle Rial**
In 2019 I Remembered That I Fucking Love Novels!
- There There…Tommy Orange
- Parable of the Sower…Octavia Butler
- Little Fires Everywhere…Celeste Ng
- Conversations with Friends…Sally Rooney
- Juliet the Maniac…Juliet Escoria
- LaRose…Louise Erdrich
- Homecoming…Marilynne Robinson
- The Female Persuasion…Meg Wolitzer
- Paper is White…Hilary Zaid**
- Marlena…Julie Buntin
Always Wanting More Nonfiction by Women
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem…Joan Didion
- The Reckonings…Lacy M. Johnson
- Three Women…Lisa Taddeo
- All of Me…Dani Burlison (editor)**
Thank G-d for Poetry Though
- Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude…Ross Gay
- Tradition…Jericho Brown
- My Private Property…Mary Ruefle
- Child of the Moon…Jessica Semaan**
Teacher Books
- Fellowship of the River…Joseph Tafur
- Becoming Like God…Michael Berg
- Everyday Holiness…Alan Morinis
- Rest…Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
- You Have the Right to Remain Fat…Virgie Tovar
- The Spiral Dance…Starhawk
- Where Two Worlds Meet…Janet Nohavec
- Keep Going…Austin Kleon
- Making Art During Fascism…Beth Pickens
- Negroland…Margo Jefferson
- Pleasure Activism…adrienne maree brown
- The Power of Habit…Charles Duhigg
- How to not always be working…Marlee Grace
- When I say no, I feel guilty…Manuel J. Smith
- Let Your Life Speak…Parker J. Palmer
**indicates a book where I know the writer off the page ❤