Friday, March 27, 2020

Books Read in 2019

The following is the list of the books I read last year, with highly ranked books in bold font:

  1. California by Edan Lapucki (8/10)
  2. Food Rules by Michael Pollan (7/10)
  3. Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee (7/10)
  4. The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (8/10)
  5. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (6/10)
  6. The Valley at the Centre of the World by Mallachy Tallack (7/10)
  7. Neverhome by Laird Hunt (8/10)
  8. Little by Edward Carey (8/10)
  9. The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway (7/10)
  10. Transcription by Kate Atkinson (6/10)
  11. The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton (8/10)
  12. The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti (9/10)
  13. Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen (7/10)
  14. The Secret Lives of Dresses by Erin McKean (6/10)
  15. Golden Urchin by Madeleine Brent (8/10)
  16. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (10/10)
  17. I Am an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire (6/10)
  18. Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates (7/10)
  19. How to Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball (9/10)
  20. The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty (9/10)
  21. The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley (9/10)
  22. The Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty (8/10)
  23. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (9/10)
  24. A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball (5/10)
  25. Cooked by Michael Pollan (8/10)
  26. Wool by Hugh Howey (8/10)
  27. The World to Come by Dara Horn (9/10)
  28. The Angel of Losses by Stephanie Feldman (6/10)
  29. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (7/10)
  30. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (9/10)
  31. The Heaven of Animals by David James Poissant (7/10)
  32. The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman (7/10)
  33. Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan (9/10)
  34. On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (8/10)
  35. The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan (7/10)
  36. The Wind Is Not a River by Brian Payton (8/10)
  37. Day of Tears by Julius Lester (8/10)
  38. A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn (8/10)
  39. The River by Peter Heller (9/10)
  40. If, Then by Kate Hope Day (7/10)
  41. The Secret Wisdom of Nature by Peter Wohlleben (8/10)
  42. A Pocketful of Crows by Joanne Harris (7/10)
  43. The Bird King by G Willow Wilson (9/10)
  44. The Humans by Matt Haig (9/10)
  45. How to Stop Time by Matt Haig (6/10)
  46. Loteria by Mario Alberto Zambrano (7/10)
  47. The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker (7/10)
  48. Minnow by James E. MeTeer (5/10)
  49. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (10/10)
  50. Marvel and a Wonder by Joe Meno (7/10)
  51. The Staff by Ron Samul (7/10)
  52. The Lost for Words Bookshop by Stephanie Butland (8/10)
  53. Living Well, Spending Less by Ruth Soukup (7/10)
  54. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (10/10)
  55. The Fish Can Sing by Halldor Laxness (5/10)
  56. Zero Bomb by M.T. Hill (8/10)
  57. Last Tango in Cyberspace by Steven Kotler (9/10)
  58. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (9/10)
  59. Slade House by David Mitchell (8/10)
  60. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell (10/10)
  61. Tears of the Truffle-Pig by Fernando A Flores (5/10)
  62. The Accidental Further Adventures of the 100-Year-Old Man by Jonas Jonasson (6/10)
  63. Number 9 Dream by David Mitchell (9/10)
  64. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (10/10)
  65. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (10/10)
  66. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (10/10)
  67. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (10/10)
  68. Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel (10/10)
  69. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan (7/10)
  70. Shift by Hugh Howey (7/10)
  71. A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman (10/10)
  72. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson (10/10)
  73. Dust by Hugh Howey (7/10)
  74. Nest by Kenneth Oppel (9/10)
  75. The Body Lies by Jo Baker (10/10)
  76. The Porpoise by Mark Haddon (9/10)
  77. Walking on the Ceiling by Aysegul Savas (5/10)
  78. What We Eat Now by Bee Wilson (9/10)
  79. The Feed by Nick Clark Windo (7/10)
  80. The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson (9/10)
  81. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (10/10)
  82. The Light Between Oceans by ML Stedman (8/10)
  83. The Emerald Storm by William Dietrich (7/10)
  84. Birdology by Sy Montgomery (10/10)
  85. The Motion of Puppets by Keith Donohue (8/10)
  86. Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry (8/10)
  87. The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by HG Parry (8/10)
  88. Educated by Tara Westover (8/10)
  89. The Good Good Pig by Sy Montgomery (8/10)
  90. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (8/10)
  91. Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl (10/10)
  92. The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higa Shida (9/10)
  93. Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott (7/10)
  94. The City of Brass by SA Chakraborty (9/10)
  95. The Kingdom of Copper by SA Chakraborty (8/10)
  96. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky (7/10)
  97. The Philsopher's War by Tom Miller (9/10)
  98. Buzz Sting Bite: Why We Need Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson (9/10)
  99. Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World by Jeff Gordon (8/10)
  100. Strange Harvests: The Hidden Histories of Seven Natural Objects by Edward Posnett (9/10)
  101. Family of Origin by CJ Hauser (8/10)
  102. The Way through the Woods by Long Litt Woon (7/10)
  103. The Border Keeper by Kerstin Hall (8/10)
  104. We Are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer (8/10)
  105. Things That Fall from the Sky by Selja Ahava (7/10)
  106. Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl (10/10)
  107. How to Be a Heroine by Samantha Ellis (6/10)
  108. Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy by Anne Boyd Rioux (7/10)
  109. Kopp Sisters on the March by Amy Stewart (6/10)
  110. Have You Eaten Grandma? by Gyles Brandreth (8/10)
  111. Movies (And Other Things) by Shea Serrano (9/10)
  112. Out of Darkness Shining Light by Petina Gappah (6/10)
  113. Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon by Tucker Malarkey (10/10)
  114. Ghostwritten by David Mitchell (10/10)
  115. The Unicorn in the Barn by Jacqueline K Ogburn (9/10)
  116. Disaster's Children by Emma Sloley (4/10)
  117. What We Talk about When We Talk about Books by Leah Price (7/10)
  118. When Less Becomes More by Emily Ley (7/10)
  119. Fibershed by Rebecca Burgess (9/10)
  120. The Art of Frugal Hedonism by Annie Raser Rowland with Adam Grubb (9/10)
  121. The Novel Habits of Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith (5/10)



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