Books Read in 2019

In 2019, I read 404 books.

• My favorite read of the year was: A Woman is no Man
• My favorite YA read of the year was: The Poet X
• My favorite graphic novel read of the year was: Good Talk
• My favorite non-fiction read of the year was: Invisible Women
• My favorite SciFi read of the year was: This Is How You Lose the Time War
• My favorite Fantasy read of the year was: Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
• Here are all my five star rated books from this year:
  • Noble Heart: A Self-Guided Retreat on Befriending Your Obstacles
  • Everything My Mother Taught Me
  • Inward
  • Normal People
  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
  • In an Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4)
  • Living Beautifully: An Inspirational Journal
  • Becoming
  • The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient, #2)
  • Where To Begin: A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World
  • Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
  • Plainsong (Plainsong, #1)
  • A Woman Is No Man
  • An Uncommon Atlas
  • The Art of Visual Notetaking
  • The Poet X
  • The Wisdom of Anxiety
  • Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
  • Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
  • Apeirogon: A Novel
  • It’s a Numberful World: How Math Is Hiding Everywhere
  • Painting Masterclass
  • Olive, Again
  • Limitless Mind
  • The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
  • Welcoming the Unwelcome
  • Things My Son Needs to Know About the World
  • This Song Will Save Your Life
  • There You Are
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War

And here are all my reads from 2019 in order. You can find all the reviews here and my drawings with reviews on instagram here.

1. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life
2. The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
3. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
4. The Library Book
5. The Art of the Good Life
6. Uprooted
7. Plainsong
8. A Key to Treehouse Living
9. Talking Across the Divide
10. Bad Blood
11. Some Assembly Required
12. The Happiness Project
13. Chief Joy Officer
14. Can You Ever Forgive Me
15. Juliet the Maniac
16. Keep Going
17. Every Heart a Doorway
18. The Au Pair
19. The Water Cure
20. The Widows
21. Brave, not Perfect
22. Normal People
23. The Dreamers
24. O’s Little Guide to Finding Your True Purpose
25. Down Among the Sticks and Bones
26. If, Then
27. Talk To Me
28. A Dangle a Day
29. Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
30. white fragility
31. Have You Seen Luis Velez?
32. Inheritence
33. The 4 habits of Joy-filled marriages
34. The Editor
35. Journey into yourself
36. Beneath the Sugar Sky
37. So Lucky
38. Our Life in a Day
39. In an Absent Dream
40. I Owe you One
41. recursion
42. elsey come home
43. the body is not an apology
44. the shape of a life
45. DIY Watercolor Flowers
46. golden child
47. lie with me
48. here and now and then
49. the lost man
50. the silent patient
51. more than words
52. the fifteen wonders of daniel green
53. The Plotters
54. Freefall
55. The Test
56. Becoming
57. The Two Hearts of Eliza Bloom
58. After
59. 99 percent mine
60. Digital Minimalism
61. When You Read This
62. Liquid Rules
63. Happy Money
64. The Organic Painter
65. Look Closer, Draw Better
66. Things my son needs to know about the world
67. On the Come up
68. The Study of Animal Languages
69. The Valedictorian of Being Dead
70. The unwinding of the miracle
71. The Last Romantics
72. Early Riser
73. The Island of Sea Women
74. An Anonymous Girl
75. I Think You’re Wrong but I am Listening
76. Visual Notetaking
77. The Happiness Diary
78. Where Reasons End
79. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
80. Territory of Light
81. Unhoneymooners
82. wingspan
83. The curious charms of arthur pepper
84. Brave Love
85. Girl, Stop Apologizing
86. Daisy Jones and the Six
87. Factfulness
88. The Cassandra
89. The River
90. Tangle’s Game
91. The Secret of Clouds
92. Be Angry
93. Shout
94. Being Creative: Be inspired. Unlock your originality
95. A Woman is No Man
96. Riots I have Known
97. The Perfect Liar
98. By Invitation Only
99. The Self-Love Experiment
100. Creative Selection
101. American Kingpin
102. The Urban Sketching Handbook: Working with Color
103. The Penguin Lessons
104. Before She Knew Him
105. You Do you
106. Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey
107. When All Is Said
108. Opposite of Always
109. The Wildlands
110. On Being Human
111. Golden State
112. If Cats Disappeared from the World
113. The Night Tiger
114. Rumi: Unseen Poems
115. Brand Identity Essentials, Revised and Expanded
116. Creative Lettering and Beyond: Timeless Calligraphy
117. Realistic Portraits in Colored Pencil
118. Hughie Mittman’s Fear of Lawnmowers
119. Stretched Too Thin
120. Outer Order, Inner Calm
121. The Parade
122. Lot
123. One True Loves
124. The Salt Path
125. The Path Made Clear
126. Queenie
127. The Porpoise
128. Understanding Numbers
129. An Uncommon Atlas
130. The Silver Ladies of Penny Lane
131. Grace After Henry
132. The Ditch
133. How to Raise Successful People
134. The Places That Scare You
135. My Lovely Wife
136. Lights All Night Long
137. The Man in the next Bed
138. The Other Americans
139. Juliet’s School of Possibilities
140. The Billion Dollar Whale
141. The White Book
142. Draw Like an Artist
143. Senlin Ascends
144. Wolfpack
145. I Miss you When I Blink
146. The Poet X
147. The Dream Peddler
148. Era of Ignition
149. Any Ordinary Day
150. Life is Short Don’t Wait to Dance
151. Mostly Sunny
152. Skin
153. The Memory of Light
154. Inspection
155. Only Ever Her
156. Utopia for Realists
157. After I Do
158. There’s a Word for That
159. Feast Your Eyes
160. The Weight of a Piano
161. Maybe Someday
162. Reasons the Stay Alive
163. Have More Fun
164. The Girl He Used to Know
165. Fifty Things that aren’t my Fault
166. The Honey Bus
167. Ask Again, Yes
168. Miracle Creek
169. How to Be Yourself
170. Fumbled
171. The Mother-in-Law
172. Walking on the Ceiling
173. Good Talk
174. Meet Cute
175. The F*ck It Diet
176. The Secret Life
177. The Bride Test
178. How to draw and Write with a Fountain Pen
179. The Algebra of Happiness
180. The Printed Letter Bookshop
181. Anywhere, Anytime Art: Illustration
182. It’s a Numberful World
183. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
184. When We Left Cuba
185. Inward
186. All that you Leave Behind
187. This Song will Save your Life
188. A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
189. Exhalation: Stories
190. The Unpassing
191. Rules for visiting
192. Everything is F*cked
193. Noble Heart
194. Marriage-ology
195. The Better Sister
196. The Invited
197. With the Fire on High
198. The Farm
199. Middlegame
200. The Wisdom of Anxiety
201. The Sentence is Death
202. The seven or Eight deaths of Stella Fortuna
203. The Flatshare
204. Stop Doing that SH*t
205. The Scent Keeper
206. City of Girls
207. When We Found Home
208. The Perfect Date
209. Boy Meets Depression
210. Magic for Liars
211. Fix Her Up
212. One Strategy
213. This is Home
214. The Ruin
215. Celestial Watercolor
216. How Not to Die Alone
217. Own Your Everyday
218. The Friend Zone
219. For the Love of Books
220. The Untethered Soul at Work
221. The Body in Question
222. Dawn
223. Disappearing Earth
224. Painting Masterclass
225. Ever After
226. This is How You Lose the Time War
227. Red, White, and Royal Blue
228. A Nearly Normal Family
229. Tea and Cake with Demons
230. Drawing Home
231. Biased
232. Olive, Again
233. Evvie Drake Starts Over
234. Apollo Leadership Lessons
235. The Islanders
236. Heads of the Colored People
237. The Last Book Party
238. The Huntress
239. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
240. The Expectations
241. What I Wish I knew When I was 20
242. Player’s Ball
243. I am her Tribe
244. The Nickel Boys
245. State of the Union
246. Callings
247. The Wedding Party
248. The Confession Club
249. The more or less Definitive Guide to Self Care
250. The Gifted School
251. The Lager Queen of Minnesota
252. The Most Fun We Ever Had
253. The Dutch House
254. Notes to Self
255. Has Anyone Seen the President?
256. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
257. Searching for Sylvie Lee
258. Gravity Is the Thing
259. Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers
260. Unfu*k Yourself Workbook
261. Chances Are…
262. That’s What Frenemies Are For
263. The Book Charmer
264. On the Corner of Love and Hate(Hopeless Romantics, #1)
265. Never Have I Ever
266. Pretty Guilty Women
267. The Great Unexpected
268. Lanny
269. The Right Swipe(Modern Love, #1)
270. If You Want to Make God Laugh
271. The Ten Thousand Doors of January
272. The Floating Feldmans
273. Things You Save in a Fire
274. Turbulence
275. You’ve Been Volunteered: A Class Mom Novel
276. We Are All Good People Here
277. Say Say Say
278. Because You’re Mine
279. No Happy Endings
280. All the Water in the World
281. The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life
282. The Turn of the Key
283. A Bend in the Stars
284. The Testaments
285. The End of Loneliness
286. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know
287. The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
288. Dominicana
289. The Dearly Beloved
290. Family of Origin
291. Read This if You Want to be Great at Drawing People
292. 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
293. Inspired Artist: Draw Every Little Thing: Learn to draw more than 100 everyday items, from food to fashion
294. The Grace Year
295. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems
296. Nature Tonic: A Year in My Mindful Life
297. A Mindful Year: 365 Ways to Find Connection and the Sacred in Everyday Life
298. The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
299. A Pure Heart
300. Twice in a Blue Moon
301. The Whisper Man
302. Summer Frost
303. Emergency Skin
304. Fleishman Is in Trouble
305. There You Are
306. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
307. Nothing to See Here
308. The Memory Police
309. Well Met
310. Red at the Bone
311. Little Faith
312. Broken Man on a Halifax Pier
313. The Water Dancer
314. Little Weirds
315. The Library of Lost and Found
316. Living Beautifully: An Inspirational Journal
317. Royal Holiday(The Wedding Date, #4)
318. The Art of Watercolor Lettering: A Beginner’s Step-by-Step Guide to Painting Modern Calligraphy and Lettered Art
319. The Chain
320. Rewilding: Meditations, Practices, and Skills for Awakening in Nature
321. The Future of Another Timeline
322. The Simple Wild (Wild, #1)
323. If You Tame Me
324. Healthy as F*ck: The Habits You Need to Get Lean, Stay Healthy, and Kick Ass at Life
325. Don’t You Forget About Me
326. Healthy Habits Suck: How to Get Off the Couch and Live a Healthy Life… Even If You Don’t Want To
327. If You Were There
328. The World That We Knew
329. The Swallows
330. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
331. Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive, and Happy Life
332. Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
333. Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World
334. A Random Act of Kindness
335. Thirst: 2600 Miles to Home
336. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
337. Midnight at the Blackbird Café
338. Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts
339. The Weddings
340. The Lion’s Den
341. Can You Feel This?
342. Everything My Mother Taught Me
343. Zenith Man
344. Big Dreams, Daily Joys: Get Things Done, Make Space for What Matters, Achieve Your Dreams
345. Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations
346. Half-truths and Semi-miracles: A Short Story
347. Everyone’s a Critic
348. Worry-Free Living: Let Go of Stress and Live in Peace and Happiness
349. Universal Methods of Design Expanded and Revised: 125 Ways to Research Complex Problems, Develop Innovative Ideas, and Design Effective Solutions
350. All This Could Be Yours
351. Love Poems for Married People
352. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
353. Love Lettering
354. The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
355. After the End
356. The Color of Style
357. I Will Never See the World Again
358. The Bromance Book Club (Bromance Book Club, #1)
359. Saving Francesca
360. Once More We Saw Stars
361. If Only I Could Tell You
362. Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive
363. The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae
364. The Family Upstairs
365. A Warning
366. The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives
367. The Starless Sea
368. Where To Begin: A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change in Our Crazy World
369. Call Down the Hawk (Dreamer, #1)
370. Verity
371. Where the Forest Meets the Stars
372. We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life
373. Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
374. Watercolor the Easy Way: Step-By-Step Tutorials for 50 Beautiful Motifs Including Plants, Flowers, Animals & More
375. Creative Journaling: A Guide to Over 100 Techniques and Ideas for Amazing Dot Grid, Junk, Mixed Media, and Travel Pages
376. Whiskey & Ribbons
377. What if There Is Nothing Wrong With You: A Practice in Reinterpretation
378. Lost Children Archive
379. Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
380. Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
381. Lawn Boy
382. Would Like to Meet
383. Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
384. Everyone Knows You Go Home
385. You Have Arrived at Your Destination
386. The Dating Charade
387. Regretting You
388. Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
389. Night of Miracles (Mason, #2)
390. Anyone
391. The Year of No Nonsense: How a Little Less Bullsh*t Can Change Your Life
392. When We Were Vikings
393. A Good Neighborhood
394. The Lost Book of Adana Moreau: A Novel
395. The Murmur of Bees
396. Apeirogon
397. Observational Sketching
398. Hidden Places
399. Oona Out of Order
400. Patron Saints of Nothing
401. Seperation Anxiety
402. It’s not Always Depression
403. A Keeper
404. Guests of August

I was purposefully planning to read 100 fewer books in 2019 than I did in 2018, I ended up reading 100 more. I am not going to try to guess how 2020 goes. I will just let myself be. I will try to live my life and read as much as I would like.