Best book of 2019: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Overall favorite fiction book of 2019: A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
Overall favorite nonfiction book of 2019: Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Overall favorite romance of 2019: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Quick stats:
- # of books read: 133
- format breakdown: 42% print, 37% e-book, 21% audiobook
- most-read genre: romance (39%)
- average star rating: 3.9
my favorite reads • reading stats
FIVE-STAR READS
- I Think I Love You by Lauren Layne
- Falling into Place by Amy Zhang
- We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
- Act Like It by Lucy Parker
- The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
- Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
- They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
- I Let You Go by Claire Mackintosh
- Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren
- The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Something Like Happy by Eva Woods
- What Happened by Hillary Clinton
- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
- All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner
- The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
- The Bride Test by Helen Hoang
- Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
- Pretty Face by Lucy Parker
- Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
- Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
- Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
- Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
- A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
- The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
- The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
- Runaway Groom by Lauren Layne
- Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
FOUR-STAR READS
- The Purest Hook by Scarlett Cole
- Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer
- Irresistible You by Kate Meader
- Healing Spiritual Wounds: Reconnecting with a Loving God After Experiencing a Hurtful Church by Carol Howard Merritt
- Playing for Keeps by Jill Shalvis
- The Last King by Katee Robert
- The Sweetest Thing by Jill Shalvis
- First Time in Forever by Sarah Morgan
- The Darkest Link by Scarlett Cole
- Hot Asset by Lauren Layne
- The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown
- Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan
- Head Over Heels by Jill Shalvis
- Marriage of Inconvenience by Penny Reid
- What I Thought Was True by Huntley Fitzpatrick
- How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper
- The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
- Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
- Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham
- An Unconditional Freedom by Alyssa Cole
- Undone by You by Kate Meader
- Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Page
- Lucky in Love by Jill Shalvis
- Huge Deal by Lauren Layne
- All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin
- A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas
- The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
- Making Up by Lucy Parker
- Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids edited by Meghan Daum
- Hooked on You by Kate Meader
- A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole
- Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- After You by Jojo Moyes
- The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Garvis Graves
- Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
- Ready to Run by Lauren Layne
- This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
- The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth
- Nikan Rebuilt by Scarlett Cole
- The Austen Playbook by Lucy Parker
- Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
- Who Do You Love by Jennifer Weiner
- The Fearless King by Katee Robert
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- American Love Story by Adriana Herrera
- Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Ann Fowler
- Lennon Reborn by Scarlett Cole
- Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner
- The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny
THREE-STAR READS
- Skinny Dip by Carl Hiassen
- The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
- Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life by Amanda Stern
- 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne
- Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Images Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass by Jes Baker
- There, There by Tommy Orange
- The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
- My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
- Dating-Ish by Penny Reid
- From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein
- Hard Sell by Lauren Layne
- Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
- Some Kind of Wonderful by Sarah Morgan
- Jordan Reclaimed by Scarlett Cole
- Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
- The Wicked Will Rise by Daniel Page
- One Enchanted Evening by Sarah Morgan
- Normal People by Sally Rooney
- Elliott Redeemed by Scarlett Cole
- American Dreamer by Adriana Herrera
- Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo
- I Miss You When I Blink: Essays by Mary Laura Philpott
- At Last by Jill Shalvis
- American Fairytale by Adriana Herrera
- Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery
- The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham
- The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
- Wrapped Up in You by Jill Shalvis
- Vox by Christina Dalcher
- Big Bad Cowboy by Carly Bloom
- Still Me by Jojo Moyes
- The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
- Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore
- The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger
- Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai
TWO-STAR READS
- Without Merit by Colleen Hoover
- The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo
- So Over You by Kate Meader
- How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry
- Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole
- You Had Me At Hello by Mhairi McFarlane
- City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
- Well Met by Jen DeLuca
ONE-STAR READS
- Maybe This Christmas by Sarah Morgan