My Year in Reading—2019

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 ❤