Feed The Bookworm! My 2019 Reading Challenge Results

I am a big reader; regular, eBook, and audiobook. I don’t care how the information gets uploaded into my brain as long as it does. I keep track of my consumption on GoodReads (both the phone app and the website) and have participated in their reading challenge since 2011. My goal for 2019 is 120 books. I ended up reading a grand total of 117 books (including Audible Originals) and 103 books (excluding Audible Originals). I missed my goal, but that is still a respectable number.

The categories below are a bit broad because of the difficulty categorizing books rather than the easiness of rating movies. I rate them on GoodReads on their 5-star scale with a minor review if interested (everything below has a link). It comes down to: I highly recommend, I recommend, or I do not recommend. I separate out the fiction, non-fiction, and series that I read. Have a look and let me know your thoughts on these. Enjoy!

Books That Are Apart Of A Series I Am Reading (And Love):

• The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #1) – Theodora Goss
• Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) – Sylvain Neuvel
• The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch #4) – Michael Connelly
• The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad #5) – Tana French
• Lady Cop Makes Trouble (Kopp Sisters #2) – Amy Stewart
• The Big Four (Hercule Poirot #5) – Agatha Christie
• Head On (Lock In #2) – John Scalzi
• Trunk Music (Harry Bosch #5) – Michael Connelly
• The Trespasser (Dublin Murder Squad #6) – Tana French
• Waking Gods (Themis Files #2) – Sylvain Neuvel
• Angels Flight (Harry Bosch #6) – Michael Connelly
• Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London #7) – Ben Aaronovitch
• From the Ashes (Ravenwood Mysteries #1) – Sabrina Flynn
• Only Human (Themis Files #3) – Sylvain Neuvel
• The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent (Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent #1) – Larry Correia
• The Mystery of the Blue Train (Hercule Poirot #6) – Agatha Christie
• A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch #7) – Michael Connelly
• A Bitter Draught (Ravenwood Mysteries #2) – Sabrina Flynn
• City of Bones (Harry Bosch #8) – Michael Connelly
• May Bird and the Ever After (May Bird #1) – Jodi Lynn Anderson
• The Wizards of Once (Wizards of Once #1) – Cressida Cowell
• Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #1) – Louise Penny
• Lost Light (Harry Bosch #8) – Michael Connelly
• Record of Blood (Ravenwood Mysteries #3) – Sabrina Flynn

Fiction Awesome:

• Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
• Circe – Madeline Miller
• Matilda – Roald Dahl
• The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge #1) -Ken Follett
• The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
• The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton
• The Sea of Tranquility – Katja Millay
• The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
• Every Note Played – Lisa Genova
• The Starless Sea – Erin Morgenstern
• The Shell Seekers– Rosamunde Picher
• Daisy Jones & The Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid

Non-Fiction Awesome:

• The Art of Memoir – Mary Karr
• The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence – Tom Peters
• God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State – Lawrence Wright
• You’re on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir – Parker Posey
• Ego Is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday
• The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential – John Maxwell
• Becoming – Michelle Obama
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action – Simon Sinek
• The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph – Ryan Holiday
• The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy – Chris Bailey
• Mindset: The new Psychology of Success – Carol Dweck
• Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life – Steven Johnson
• Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military – Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps – Kelly Williams Brown
• Everything Bad is Good for You – Steven Johnson
• This is the Story of a Happy Marriage – Ann Patchett

Fiction Recommended:

• An Absolutely Remarkable Thing – Hank Green
• Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1) – Malorie Blackman
• The Magus – John Fowles
• Young Jane Young – Gabrielle Zevin
• Less – Andrew Sean Greer
• Magician: Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga #1) – Raymond E. Feist
• You Will Know Me – Megan Abbott
• Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack #1) – L.A. Meyer
• Artemis – Amdy Weir
• There There – Tommy Orange
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
• Without Merit – Colleen Hoover
• Britt-Marie Was Here – Fredrik Backman
• The Lost Man – Jane Harper
• A Ladder to the Sky – John Boyne
• The Sisters Brothers – Patrick deWitt
• A Hologram for the King – Dave Eggers
• If We Were Villains – M.L. Rio
• Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
• Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
• The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North
• The Sherlockian – Graham Moore
• The Summer that Melted Everything – Tiffany McDaniel
• Imaginary Friend – Stephen Chbosky
• Warlight – Michael Ondaatje
• The Lost for Words Bookshop – Stephanie Butland
• Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
• What She Knew – Gilly Macmillan
• City of Girls – Elizabeth Gilbert

Non-Fiction Recommended:

• The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know – Katty Kay
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger – Lee Israel
• You Don’t Look Your Age…and Other Fairy Tales – Sheila Nevins
• Fascism: A Warning – Madeleine Albright
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup – John Carreyrou
• Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation – Steven Johnson
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life – Mark Manson
• The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play – Neil A. Fiore
• Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most – Steven Johnson
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays – Alexander Chee
• Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts -Brene Brown
• Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America – Beth Macy

Fiction NOT Recommended:

• Imagine Me Gone – Adam Haslett
• Titus Groan (Gormenghast #1) – Mervyn Peake
• I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
• The Way We Live Now – Anthony Trollope
• The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
• All Your Perfects – Collen Hoover
• Early Riser – Jasper Fforde
• Cheshire Crossing – Any Weir
• I Let You Go – Clare Mackintosh
• I Know Who You Are – Alice Feeney

Non-Fiction NOT Recommended:

• West with the Night – Beryl Markham

Books Re-read:

• Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson

Audible Special Performances (Part Audiobook/Part Audio Play)

• The Man on the Mountaintop – Susan Trott
• Out of My Mind – Alan Arkin
• Harry Clarke With Bonus Performance: Lillian – David Cale
• Killer by Nature – Jan Smith
• Folsom Untold: The Strange True Story of Johnny Cash’s Greatest Album – Danny Robins
• A Mind of Her Own – Paula McLain
• More Bedtime Stories for Cynics – Kirsten Kearse, Gretchen Enders, Cirocco Dunlap, Aparna Nancherla, Matt Lieb
• Alien III – William Gibson
• Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World – Scott McCormick
• Carmilla – J. Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Burnout Generation – Anne Helen Petersen
• The Home Front: Life in America During World War II – Voiced by Martin Sheen
• You Can Thank Me Later: A Novella – Kelly Harms
• Midnight Son – James Dommek Jr.

Past Rankings:

• 2011
• 2012
• 2013
• 2014
• 2015
• 2016
• 2017
• 2018

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