2019 Bibliography
The 35 books I read in 2019. I’ve starred my favorites. Pleased with the upswing in women authors and authors of color in my reading diet. More is better of course but a positive trend.
Fiction
★ The Ruin of Kings, Jenn Lyons
★ Exhalation: Stories, Ted Chiang
★ The City Stained Red, Sam Sykes
Disappearing Earth, Julia Phillips
Slow Horses, Mick Herron
This is How You Lose The Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Fleishman is in Trouble, Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The Immortalists, Chloe Benjamin
The Red Men, Matthew de Abaitua
The Grand Dark, Richard Kadrey
Seven Blades in Black, Sam Sykes
A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
The Armored Saint, Myke Cole
Lexicon, Max Barry
The End of Eternity, Isaac Asimov
Dry, Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh
Before She Sleeps, Bina Shah
The Ensemble, Aja Gabel
Non-fiction
★ Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying, Sallie Tisdale
★ Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, Patrick Radden Keefe
The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains, Joseph LeDoux
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Thing Right, Atul Gawande
Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day, Jake Knapp and John Zarotsky
The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About the Good Life, Michael Puett and Christine Gross-Loh
The Biological Mind: How Brain, Body, and Environment Collaborate to Make Us Who We Are, Alan Jasanoff
Novel Research and Writing
1776, David McCullough
Tories: Fighting for the King in America’s First Civil War, Thomas B. Allen
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book On Novel Writing You’ll Ever Need, Jessica Brody
Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth, Holger Hoock
George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution, Brian Kilmeade
Benjamin and William Franklin: Father and Son, Patriot and Loyalist, Sheila L. Skemp
Book Architecture: How to Plot and Outline Without Using a Formula, Stuart Horwitz
Damn Fine Story: Mastering the Tools of a Powerful Narrative, Chuck Wendig
A Little Revenge: Benjamin Franklin and His Son, Willard Sterne Randall
