Every year, I list out all the books I read in a blog post. Since I consume vast quantities of text, I don’t get a chance to highlight the best books. This year I decided to pick 5 from each category to recommend. While these books have all come out at different times, they are all books I read in 2019.
Top 5 Fiction (Non-Series)
- The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle – Stuart Turton
- The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
- The Shell Seekers– Rosamunde Picher
- The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge #1) -Ken Follett
- The Starless Sea – Erin Morgenstern
Top 5 Non-Fiction
- Ego Is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday
- Becoming – Michelle Obama
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action – Simon Sinek
- Mindset: The new Psychology of Success – Carol Dweck
- This is the Story of a Happy Marriage – Ann Patchett
Top 5 Fiction (Series)
- 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
- From the Ashes (Ravenwood Mysteries #1) – Sabrina Flynn
- The Wizards of Once (Wizards of Once #1) – Cressida Cowell
- May Bird and the Ever After (May Bird #1) – Jodi Lynn Anderson