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This is a list of the books I starred after reading them in 2019. In all I began (didn't always finish) 237 books. These 110 are my top picks.
Jan 2019
Dorothy Baker Cassandra at the Wedding
Deborah Levy Things I Don't Want to Know
Robin Sloan Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore
Ann Hui Chop Suey Nation
Tom Wilson Beautiful Scars
Bradford Morrow The Prague Sonata
Christopher Fowler Hall of Mirrors
Feb 2029
Kate Atkinson Transcription
Anne Lamott Almost Everything
Iona Wishaw Sorrowful Sanctuary
Colin Cotterill Don't Eat Me
Madeline Miller Circe
Ursula K. LeGuin Buffalo Gals
Tayari Jones Silver Shadow
Tom Cowen Shamanism as a Spiritual Practice
Jonathan Lethem The Feral Detective
Katherine V. Forret Amateur City
Thomas King A Matter of Malice
March 2019
Pat Barker The Silence of the Girls
Miriam Toews Women Talking
Liv Stromquist Fruit of Knowledge (G)
Keigo Higashino Newcomer
Haruki Murakami Killing Commendatore *
Philip Pullman His Dark Materials (3 vol.)
David Chariandy Brother
Patrick DeWitt French Exit
Rose Tremain The ___ Sonata
D. Preston & Lee Child Verses for the Dead
Edward P. Jones All Aunt Hagar's Children
Ian Rankin In a House of Lies
Elizabeth McCracken The Gian's House
April 2019
Nina Stibbe Love, Nina
Rose Tremain Merivel
Anjali Kumar Stalking God
Sulari Gentill Miles Off Course
Alan Jenkins Plot 29
Michael Frank The Mighty Franks
J. J. Marria Gideon's Staff
Donna Leon Unto Us a Son Is Born
Deborah Eisenberg Your Duck Is My Duck
May, 2019
Gail Honeyman Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Ann Cleeves Wild Fire
Rose Tremain Evangelista's Fan
Alan Melville Death of Anton
Jenny Diskin In Gratitude
Helen DeWitt The Last Samurai
Samantha Harvey The Western Wind
Anakana Schofield Malarky
Esi Edugyan Washington Black
Ngaio Marsh Opening Night
Katy Bowman Dynamic Aging
Damian Barr Maggie and Me
Edna O'Brien The Little Red Chairs
Eden Robinson Son of a Trickster
Ursula K. LeGuin Conversations on Writing
Viv Albertine To Throw Away Unopened
David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames
July 2019
Curtis Sittenfeld Eligible
Jan Morris In My Mind's Eye
Abraham Vesenghi Cutting for Stone*
M. Sjowall & Per Wahloo The Locked Room
Lucy Foley The Hunting Party
Frances Fyfield Not That Kind of Place
" " Seeking Sanctuary
Papul Theroux My Other Life
Ellie Griffeths The Stone Circle
Frances Fyfield The Nature of the Beast
Aug 2019
Rachel Naomi Remen My Grandfather's Blessings
James Lee Burke New Iberia Blues
David Pirie The Patient's Eyes
Lewis Hyde A Primer for Forgetting
Jo Nesbo Cockroaches
Jaspaer Fforde Get into a Good Book
Georges Simenon Maigret's Anger
Steve Burrows A Dance of Cranes
Maurizio de Giovanni Cold for the Bastards of Pizzzofalone
Aleksandar Hemon This Does Not Belong to You
Farah Heron The Chai Factor
Marion Winik The Glen Rock Book of the Dead
September 2019
Amy Hemple Sing To It
Georges Simenon Maigret & the Ghost
Sonali Dev Pride, Prejudice & Other Flavors
Ruth Reichl Save Me the Plums
Alex. McCall Smith The Second Worst Restaurant in France
Sarah Smarth Heartland
Lori Prior-Palmer Rough Magi
E. C. R. Lorac Murder in the Mill Race
Oct 2019
Lee Child The Killing Floor
Lee Child Tripwire
Philip Pullman The Secret Commonwealth
Margaret Yorke Cause for Concern
Rex Stout The Red Box (Nero Wolfe)
Gail Bowen What's Left Behind
Mark Salzman The Laughing Sutra
November 2019
Kate Atkinson Big Sky
Booth Tarkington Novels and Stories
Alan Bradley The Golden Tresses of the Dead
Booth Tarkington The Magnificent Ambersons
Jill Ciment The Body in Question
Terry Shames A Risky Undertaking for Loretta
Matias Faldbakka The Waiter
Josephine Tey To Love and Be Wise
Georges Simenon Maigret Travels
Dec 2019
Maylis de Kerangal The Cook
Josephine Tey The Franchise Affair
Margaret Atwood The Testaments
Josephine Tey A Shilling for Candles
Janet Evanovich Twisted Twenty-Six
Ross MacDonald The Moving Target
" " The Barborous Coast
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