2019 Books

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Here are the books I read and reviewed in 2019.

★★★☆☆ The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
★★☆☆☆ A Simple Favor by Darcey Bell
★★★☆☆ The Final Days by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
★★★☆☆ Archenemies by Marissa Meyer (Renegades #2)
★★★★★ A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
★★☆☆☆ Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down by Gina McIntyre
★★★★☆ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
★★☆☆☆ A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1)
★★★★☆ An Ocean of Minutes by Thea Lim
★★★☆☆ Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman
★★★☆☆ An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King
★★★☆☆ Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi (Legacy of Orïsha #1)
★★★☆☆ Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (Beartown #2)
★★★★☆ Skyward by Brandon Sanderson (Skyward #1)
★★★☆☆ The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
★★★☆☆ Slayer by Kiersten White (Slayer #1)
★★★★☆ My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
★★★★☆ Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
★★★☆☆ All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother by Danielle Teller
★★★★☆ Circe by Madeline Miller
★★☆☆☆ Thanos: Titan Consumed by Barry Lyga
★★★☆☆ Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander (The Chronicles of Prydain #4)
★★★☆☆ Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart (Kopp Sisters #1)
★★★★☆ Palace of Stone by Shannon Hale (Princess Academy #2)
★☆☆☆☆ Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne (The Tales of Pell #1)
★★★☆☆ The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte
★★★☆☆ Flight or Fright edited by Stephen King and Bev Vincent
★★★★★ Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
★★☆☆☆ The Hollow of Fear by Sherry Thomas (Lady Sherlock #3)
★★★☆☆ Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix by Julie C. Dao (Rise of the Empress #2)
★★★★☆ The Black Echo by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #1)
★★★★☆ The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
★★★☆☆ Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton (Rebel of the Sands #1)
★★☆☆☆ All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai
★★★☆☆ Hey Ladies! by Michelle Markowitz and Caroline Moss
★★★★☆ Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #3)
★★★★☆ The Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty (The Daevabad Trilogy #2)
★★★★☆ Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries #2)
★★★☆☆ Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
★★★☆☆ Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance by Bernie Sanders
★★★★☆ This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps
★★☆☆☆ Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House by Cliff Sims
★★★★★ Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
★★☆☆☆ East by Edith Pattou (East #1)
★★★☆☆ Golden State by Ben H. Winters
★★★★☆ The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
★★★☆☆ Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi (Pandava Quartet #1)
★★★★☆ Off the Sidelines by Kirsten Gillibrand
★★★★☆ The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
★★★☆☆ Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala
★★★★☆ Becoming by Michelle Obama
★★☆☆☆ Assignment in Eternity by Robert A. Heinlein
★★★☆☆ In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #4)
★★★★☆ Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James (The Dark Star Trilogy #1)
★★★★☆ What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper
★★★☆☆ And the Ocean Was Our Sky by Patrick Ness
★★★★☆ The Light Between Worlds by Laura E. Weymouth
★★★★☆ The Sisters of the Winter Wood by Rena Rossner
★★★☆☆ Shortest Way Home: One Mayor’s Challenge and a Model for America’s Future by Peter Buttigieg
★★★★☆ The High King by Lloyd Alexander (The Chronicles of Prydain #5)
★★☆☆☆ The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey
★★★☆☆ The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
★★★★☆ King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo (Nikolai Duology #1)
★★☆☆☆ Evermore by Sara Holland (Everless #2)
★★★★☆ Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen
★★★★☆ The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee (Montague Siblings #2)
★★★☆☆ A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
★★★★★ The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
★★★☆☆ One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse
★★★☆☆ Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (The Illuminae Files #1)
★★★☆☆ Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
★★★☆☆ A Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix
★★★★☆ Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #3)
★★★☆☆ A Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi (The Star-Touched Queen #2)
★★★☆☆ Star Wars: Queen’s Shadow by E. K. Johnston
★★☆☆☆ I’ll Mature When I’m Dead: Dave Barry’s Amazing Tales of Adulthood by Dave Barry
★★★★☆ Doctor Who: Human Nature by Paul Cornell (Virgin New Adventures #38)
★★★★☆ Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son by Michael Chabon
★★★☆☆ Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson (Truly Devious #1)
★★★☆☆ A People’s Future of the United States edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams
★★★☆☆ A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn
★★★☆☆ The Black Ice by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #2)
★★★★☆ Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (The Vampire Chronicles #1)
★★★☆☆ Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik
★★★☆☆ Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
★★★☆☆ The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons (A Chorus of Dragons #1)
★★★★☆ The Man Who Risked His Partner by Stephen R. Donaldson (The Man Who #2)
★★★☆☆ Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin (A Targaryen History #1)
★★★★☆ Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
★★★☆☆ Doctor Who: Regeneration by Philip Segal with Gary Russell
★★★☆☆ Fool’s Errand by Robin Hobb (The Tawny Man #1)
★★★☆☆ The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #2)
★★★★☆ Doctor Who: Scratchman by Tom Baker with James Goss
★★★★☆ The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal (Lady Astronaut #1)
★★★★☆ Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
★★★☆☆ Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration by Emily Bazelon
★★★☆☆ The Automatic Millionaire Homeowner: A Lifetime Plan to Finish Rich in Real Estate by David Bach
★★★★☆ Giant’s Bread by Mary Westmacott
★★★☆☆ Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling (Nightrunner #1)
★★★★☆ Golden Fool by Robin Hobb (The Tawny Man #2)
★★★★☆ The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
★★★☆☆ The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara
★★★☆☆ Dracul by Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker
★★★★★ The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
★★★★☆ The Gameshouse by Claire North
★★★☆☆ The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle #4)
★★★☆☆ Defy the Worlds by Claudia Gray (Constellation #2)
★★★☆☆ Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
★★★☆☆ The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump by Andrew G. McCabe
★★★★☆ Fool’s Fate by Robin Hobb (The Tawny Man #3)
★★☆☆☆ Nightingale’s Lament by Simon R. Green (Nightside #3)
★★★☆☆ Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal (Glamourist Histories #1)
★★★★☆ Life, the Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #3)
★★☆☆☆ The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America by Jim Acosta
★★★★☆ Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
★★★☆☆ Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds
★★★☆☆ The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
★★★★☆ The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
★★☆☆☆ Foundation by Isaac Asimov (Foundation #1)
★★★☆☆ Seventh Decimate by Stephen R. Donaldson (The Great God’s War #1)
★★★☆☆ Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier (Wildwood #1)
★★★★★ Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
★★★☆☆ Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier
★★★☆☆ The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu
★★★★☆ SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
★★★★☆ Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
★★★★☆ My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
★★★★★ The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials #1)
★★☆☆☆ Kingdom of Needle and Bone by Mira Grant
★★★☆☆ Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb (The Rain Wild Chronicles #1)
★★★★☆ The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
★★★★☆ The Test by Sylvain Neuvel
★★☆☆☆ The Binding by Bridget Collins
★★★★☆ Witchmark by C. L. Polk (The Kingston Cycle #1)
★★★☆☆ The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation by Brenda Wineapple
★★★★☆ Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool by Emily Oster
★★★★☆ Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
★★★☆☆ Jade City by Fonda Lee (The Green Bone Saga #1)
★★★★☆ H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
★★★☆☆ Safekeeping by Jessamyn Hope
★★★☆☆ Newt’s Emerald by Garth Nix
★★★☆☆ The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan
★★☆☆☆ Pennyroyal Academy by M. A. Larson (Pennyroyal Academy #1)
★★★☆☆ So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #4)
★★★★★ I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution by Emily Nussbaum
★★★☆☆ Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman
★★★★★ Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
★★★☆☆ The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club #1)
★★★☆☆ Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
★★★★★ The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
★★☆☆☆ Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb (The Rain Wild Chronicles #2)
★★★☆☆ Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
★★★☆☆ Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
★★★★☆ Recursion by Blake Crouch
★★★☆☆ The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
★★★☆☆ The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials #2)
★★★☆☆ Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
★★★☆☆ The Boat People by Sharon Bala
★★★★☆ The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
★★★★☆ Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Little Women #1)
★☆☆☆☆ The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
★★★★☆ Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
★★★☆☆ Golden Child by Claire Adam
★★★★☆ Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
★★☆☆☆ Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy #5)
★★★☆☆ The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
★★★★☆ This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
★★★★☆ Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (Simon Snow #1)
★★★★☆ The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1)
★★★☆☆ Resistance by Jennifer A. Nielsen
★★★☆☆ Redwall by Brian Jacques (Redwall #1)
★★★★☆ Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
★★★★☆ The Need by Helen Phillips
★★★☆☆ Star Wars: A Crash of Fate by Zoraida Córdova
★★★★☆ The Institute by Stephen King
★★★☆☆ The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid’s Tale #2)
★★☆☆☆ The Sorcerer’s House by Gene Wolfe
★★★★☆ Alice Payne Arrives by Kate Heartfield (Alice Payne #1)
★★★★☆ Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
★★★☆☆ City of Dragons by Robin Hobb (The Rain Wild Chronicles #3)
★★★☆☆ Turbulence by David Szalay
★★★★☆ She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
★★★☆☆ What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte
★★☆☆☆ The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz (Hawthorne #2)
★★★★☆ The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials #3)
★★★★★ The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
★★★☆☆ There Will Come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool (The Age of Darkness #1)
★★★★☆ Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
★★★★☆ Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell (Simon Snow #2)
★★★★☆ Fly Already by Etgar Keret
★★★★★ The Lost Man by Jane Harper
★★☆☆☆ Sunshine by Robin McKinley
★★★★★ The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
★★★☆☆ How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
★★★★☆ The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
★★★☆☆ A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell
★★★★☆ His Hideous Heart: 13 of Edgar Allan Poe’s Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined edited by Dahlia Adler
★★★☆☆ The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman (The Book of Dust #2)
★★★☆☆ The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
★★★★☆ The Long Blink: The True Story of Trauma, Forgiveness, and One Man’s Fight for Safer Roads by Brian Kuebler
★★★★☆ Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Alex Stern #1)
★★★☆☆ Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
★★★★☆ The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
★★★★☆ Nightbooks by J. A. White
★★★☆☆ Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
★★☆☆☆ The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
★★★☆☆ The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2)
★★★☆☆ Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
★★☆☆☆ Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt
★★★☆☆ Renia’s Diary: A Holocaust Journal by Renia Spiegel with her sister Elizabeth Bellak
★★☆☆☆ Blood of Dragons by Robin Hobb (The Rain Wild Chronicles #4)
★★★☆☆ Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
★★★★★ The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
★★★☆☆ The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children by Wendy Mogel
★★★☆☆ The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
★★★★☆ Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia (Tristan Strong #1)
★★★☆☆ A Treason of Thorns by Laura E. Weymouth
★★★★☆ The Deep by Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes
★★☆☆☆ House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig
★★★★☆ The Whisper Man by Alex North
★★★★☆ Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly
★★★★☆ It’s a Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories edited by Katherine Locke and Laura Silverman
★★★★☆ Kingdom of Souls by Rena Barron (Kingdom of Souls #1)
★★★☆☆ Supernova by Marissa Meyer (Renegades #3)
★★☆☆☆ Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza (Empress of a Thousand Skies #1)
★★★☆☆ Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavić
★★★★★ Steel Crow Saga by Paul Krueger
★★★☆☆ The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
★★★★☆ The Titan’s Curse by Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #3)
★★★☆☆ Homerooms & Hall Passes by Tom O’Donnell (Homerooms & Hall Passes #1)
★★★☆☆ Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
★★★☆☆ Defy the Fates by Claudia Gray (Constellation #3)
★★★★☆ The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
★★★☆☆ This is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
★★★☆☆ The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino
★★★☆☆ The Man Who Tried to Get Away by Stephen R. Donaldson (The Man Who #3)
★★★☆☆ Star Wars: Resistance Reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse
★★☆☆☆ Gwendy’s Magic Feather by Richard Chizmar (The Button Box #2)
★★★★☆ Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
★★☆☆☆ Disney’s Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World by Richard Snow
★★★★☆ Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater (Dreamer #1)
★★★★☆ Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi (Legacy of Orïsha #2)
★★★☆☆ Full Throttle by Joe Hill
★★★★☆ The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky by Mackenzi Lee (Montague Siblings #1.5)
★★★☆☆ The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North
★★★★☆ Hope and Other Punchlines by Julie Buxbaum
★★☆☆☆ Star Wars: Force Collector by Kevin Shinick
★★★☆☆ The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
★★★★☆ The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
★★★☆☆ The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie

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