reading list — 2019

List of books I read in 2019, in chronological order.

  • Girls & Boys

    Dennis Kelly

  • Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

    Gail Honeyman

  • Codename Villanelle

    Luke Jennings

  • Wildlife

    Richard Ford

  • But What if We're Wrong

    Chuck Klosterman

  • Educated

    Tara Westover

  • Purple Hibiscus

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • Bad Feminist

    Roxane Gay

  • If Beale Street Could Talk

    James Baldwin

  • The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen: Opening Your Eyes to Wonder

    Lisa Gungor

  • The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe

    Richard Rohr

  • Shameless: A Sexual Reformation

    Nadia Bolz-Weber

  • Convenience Store Woman

    Sayaka Murata

  • Who Thought This Was A Good Idea: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House

    Alyssa Mastromonaco, Lauren Oyler

  • The Dog Stars

    Peter Heller

  • To Kill A Mockingbird

    Harper Lee

  • Dark Matter

    Blake Crouch

  • Comedy Sex God

    Pete Holmes

  • Still the Mind

    Alan Watts

  • The Power of Now

    Eckhart Tolle

  • Scrappy Little Nobody

    Anna Kendrick

  • I Might Regret This

    Abbi Jacobson

  • A Wedding Thing

    Shea Serrano

  • Parable

    Jess Walter

  • Before Her

    Jacqueline Woodson

  • Lila

    Naima Coster

  • Yes, And

    Kristi Coulter

  • The Visitor

    Dodai Stewart

  • Speed Grieving

    Allison Ellis

  • Midnight in Chernobyl

    Adam Higginbotham

  • Necessary People

    Anna Pitoniak

  • Deaf Republic

    Ilya Kaminksy

  • Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

    Caroline Criado-Pérez

  • The First Bad Man

    Mirandy July

  • Big Little Lies

    Liane Moriarty

  • The Wall

    John Lanchester

  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

    James Clear

  • For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity

    Liz Plank

  • Movies (And Other Things)

    Shea Serrano

  • Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

    Ronan Farrow

  • Fleishman is in Trouble

    Taffy Brodesser-Akner

  • The Hate You Give

    Angie Thomas

  • Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

    Tish Harrison Warren

  • Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks

    Diana Butler Bass

  • The Body in Question

    Jill Ciment

  • A Wrinkle in Time

    Madeleine L'Engle

  • How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life

    Catherine Price

  • The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father

    Janny Scott

  • Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

    Jenny Lawson

  • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

    Cal Newport

  • One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

    Kevin M. Kruse

  • Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Prayer

    Rowan Williams