#reading 2019

a nose i could ski jump off

beautiful angel boy

TYLER JOSEPH

In August or so, I decided I needed to read more books, as in, not fanfiction (heh). I revved up Ye Olde Goodreads account and started in. I set myself a goal of 30 books for the rest of the year but when it became clear I was going to hit that easily I upped it to 50. I’ve read 29 so far. And only the first two (at the bottom of the image) were read before August. ALL THE BOOKS.

january: 

Love is a Mixtape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield 

Calypso by David Sedaris

Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix by JK Rowling 

Naked by David Sedaris

Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer 

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling

Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen

The Stars Within You: A Modern Guide to Astrology by Juliana McCarthy

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling 

We Are Never Meeting In Real Life by Samantha Irby

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky 

Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work by Richard Ford

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

february: 

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut 

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson 

Lucky Boy by Shanthi Sekaran

The Eldest Daughter Effect: How Firstborn Women - Like Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, JK Rowling, and Beyonce - Harness Their Strengths by Lisette Schuitemaker & Wies Enthoven

march: 

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson 

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 

The Rise of Abraham Cahan by Seth Lipsky 

The Chaos of Stars by Kiersten White 

My Mother’s Secret by J.L. Witterick 

Unlearn: 101 Simple Truths for a Better Life by Humble the Poet 

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin

Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope by Karamo Brown

april:

Becoming by Michelle Obama

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo 

Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo 

may:

King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

june:

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han

A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout

july:

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman

Room by Emma Donoghue

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrick Blackman

august:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobosky

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

The Tatooist of Aushwitz by Heather Morris

Howard Stern Comes Again by Howard Stern

Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction

Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney

Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories From the Yiddish Press

september:

Normal People by Sally Rooney

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid 

Don’t Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times by Irshad Manji 

The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan 

Abandon Me by Melissa Febos 

october: 

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark 

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo 

Turn Around Bright Eyes: The Rituals of Love and Karaoke by Rob Sheffield

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

november:

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Red at the Bone by Jacquline Woodson

You Can’t Be Neutal on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times by Howard Zinn

december:

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Last week I went through the books sitting in my Amazon shopping cart and tried to get them from my public library.

I was able to get nearly every book!

Once I move and get a formal written lease again, I'll be able to get a card for the Denver Public library too!