Friday, January 3, 2020

The Reading Edge: Books Read in 2019

In 2019, I read 124 books, beating my 2018 total of 109. In 2017, I read 126.

January
James Clear                       Atomic Habits
Lilia Momple                    Neighbours, the Story of a Murder
Anna Burns                       Milkman (CD)
Jordan B. Peterson            Twelve Rules for Life (CD)
PM Forni                            Choosing Civility (skimmed and made notes)
Mark Cote                          That Lucky Old Son
Alexander McCall Smith    The House of Unexpected Sisters
Kagise Lesogo Molope        This Book Betrays my Brother (re-read in order to teach at SFU)
                                                                                                                                         
February
Alexander McCall Smith    The Colors of All the Cattle
Derek B. Miller                  The Girl in Green
Diana Athill                       Alive, Alive Oh! and other Important Matters
Tana French                      The Likeness (CD)
Diana Athill                       Midsummer Night at the Workhouse and other Stories
Iain Reid                            Foe

March
Tana French                      The Trespasser (CD)
Diana Athill                       Somewhere towards the end
Lisa See                             Dragon Bones
Donna Leon                       Through a Glass Darkly (relistened for SFU course)
Sue Grafton                       X (relistened, for SFU course)
Jack Knox                         On the Rocks with Jack Knox
Charles Cumming             The Moroccan Girl
Alan Bradley                      The Golden Tresses of the Dead (CD)
Ian Rankin                        Watchman (quit partway through)
Diana Athill                       Instead of a Book
Diana Athill                       Stet
Tana French                      The Secret Place                
Gloria Steinem                  My Life on the Road (Audio)
Ross Macdonald                The Ivory Grin (a Lew Archer novel) (Audio)
Henning Mankell               Chronicler of the Winds (skimmed last of this tragic allegory)
Sarah Waters                     The Night Watch (Audio)                                                               

April
Michael Kluckner              Julia (graphic novel about Julia Henshaw)
Lisa See                             The Island of Sea Women (CD)
Sally Rooney                      Normal People (audio)
Sheila Kohler                     Once we were Sisters
Alexander McCall Smith    The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse
Abir Mukherjee                  A Necessary Evil
Jhumpa Lahiri                   The Namesake (audio)
Val McDermid                   Forensics
Jhumpa Lahiri                   Unaccustomed Earth (audio)
Abir Mukherjee                  A Rising Man                                                                          

May
Ann Patchett                     State of Wonder (CD)
Anne-Marie Drosso            Hookah Nights
Anne-Marie Drosso            Cairo Stories
Jhumpa Lahiri                   The Lowland
Nathaniel Brandon            The Six Pillars of Self-esteem
Alain de Botton                  The Course of Love
Ovidia Yu                           The Frangipani Tree Mystery
Victoria Zackheim ed.        Faith: essays from believers, agnostics and atheists
Peter Robinson                  Careless Love
Daniel Kahneman              Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow (audio)
Abir Mukherjee                  Smoke and Ashes (audio)                                                               

June
Diana Athill                       Instead of a Letter
Elif Shafak                         Black Milk
Maureen Medved               Black Star
Gail Honeyman                  Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine (skipped over last bit)
Alain de Botton                  A Week at the Airport
Alain de Botton                  Status Anxiety
CS Lewis                            The Silver Chair CD
Graeme Simsion                The Rosie Result
Val McDermid                   Insidious Intent
Val McDermid                   Trick of the Dark
Josephine Tey                    The Daughter of Time
Rupert Sheldrake              Science and Spiritual Practices
Peter May                          The Blackhouse
Fred Vargas                       Wash this Blood Clean from my Hand
Colin Cotterill                    Six and a Half Deadly Sins (CD)                                                       

July
Ariana Dagnino                 The Afrikaner
Jennifer Robson                The Gown (CD)
Edna O’Brien                     The Little Red Chairs (Audio)
Manuel Matas MD             The Borders of Normal 
Rachel McMillan               The White Feather Murders (didn't finish)
Mike Simmons                   Episodes from Iceworld 
Terry Fong                         Princeton: a Love Story
Edna O’Brien                     The Love Object (CD) [heard first 8 CDs only]
Iona Whishaw                    Death in a Darkening Mist
Edward Gibbon                 The Rise & Fall of the Roman Empire I (Audio)
Gianrico Carofilio              The Past is a Foreign Country
Gianrico Carofilio              Involuntary Witness
Ian Hamilton                     The Disciple of Las Vegas
Derek B. Miller                  Norwegian by Night
Josephine Tey                    Sands of Time
Kate Atkinson                    Big Sky
Ann Shortell                      Celtic Knot                                                                                

August
Qiu Xiaolong                     Shanghai Redemption
Jess Kidd                           Himself
Peter Carey                        True History of The Kelly Gang                                            

September
Peter Carey                        Illywhacker (finished at home in October)
Chris Cleave                      Incendiary
Jane Harper                      The Dry
Jane Harper                      Force of Nature (CD)
Dervla McTiernan              The Ruin
Adrian McKinty                 The Chain
Adrian McKinty                 The Cold, Cold Ground
Ovidia Yu                           The Betel Nut Tree Mystery
Iona Whishaw                    A Killer in King’s Cove                                                               

October
Elly Griffiths                      The Dark Angel
Iona Whishaw                    It Begins in Betrayal
Iona Whishaw                    An Old Cold Grave
Iona Whishaw                    It Begins in Betrayal
Iona Whishaw                    A Deceptive Devotion
Shelley Wood                     Quintland Sisters (Audio file)
Peter May                           The Chessmen (CD)
Adrian McKinty                 Police at the Station and They don’t Look Friendly (CD)
Richard van Camp             Moccasin Square Garden
Maude Barlow                   Whose Water is it Anyway?                                                
JoJo Moyes                       Still Me (CD)
Adrian McKinty                 Police at the Station and they Don’t Look Friendly (CD)
Adrian McKinty                 I Hear Sirens in the Street (2 of Troubles Trilogy)       
Adrian McKinty                 In the Morning I’ll be Gone 
Adrian McKinty                 Gun Street Girl                                                                       

November
Adrian McKinty                 Rain Dogs (CD)
Jakob Arjouni                    Brother Kemal
Jane Harper                      The Lost Man                    
Kate Atkinson                    Transcription
Adrian McKinty                 Hidden River
Nicola Upson                     An Expert in Murder (first one featuring Josephine Tey)
Jacqueline Carmichael      Tweets from the Trenches
Dervla McTiernan              The Scholar (CD)                                                                   
Ben Macintyre                   Operation Mincemeat (CD)
Jennifer Egan                    Manhattan Beach                                                                  

December
Derek B. Miller                  American by Day
Renee Knight                     Disclaimer                        
Mark Manson                    Everything is Fucked: a Book about Hope
Kevin Barry                       Night Boat to Tangier
Naomi Wood                     Mrs. Hemingway (didn't finish)                                                

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