A list of the books I’ve read, along with the month and year in which I finished each one. An asterisk indicates it is a “best of” book: one of the very best I read that year.
2019
Medea, Euripedes (on deck)
Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger (on deck)
The Antelope Wife, Louise Erdrich (reading now)
*Testosterone Rex, Cordelia Fine (5/19)
The Language of Secrets, Ausma Zehanat Khan (5/19)
Beyond the Woods, Paula Guran, ed. (5/19)
In Our Strange Gardens, Michel Quint (5/19)
*Yellow Face, David Henry Hwang (5/19)
The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin (5/19)
Small World, David Lodge (5/19)
The Chaos, Nalo Hopkinson (4/19)
My Sister, the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite (4/19)
*Spinning Silver, Naomi Novik (4/19)
The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis (re-read, 4/19)
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens (4/19)
Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson (4/19)
*All the Crooked Saints, Maggie Stiefvater (4/19)
The First Person, Ali Smith (4/19)
Go Tell It On the Mountain, James Baldwin (4/19)
Barking to the Choir, Gregory Boyle (4/19)
Anne of Green Gables series 1-4, L.M. Montgomery (re-read, 3/19)
What Katy Did, Susan Coolidge (re-read, 3/19)
The Talisman, Stephen King (re-read, 3/19)
The Stand, Stephen King (re-read, 3/19)
*The Bostonians, Henry James (3/19)
Eight Cousins, Louisa May Alcott (re-read, 3/19)
Malory Towers series 1-6, Enid Blyton (re-read, 3/19)
*The Moon Is Down, John Steinbeck (3/19)
Britt-Marie Was Here, Frederik Backman (3/19)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy (3/19)
The Child From the Sea, Elizabeth Goudge (3/19)
Amazing Grace, Kathleen Norris (2/19)
Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee (2/19)
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones (2/19)
The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin (2/19)
The Merlin Conspiracy, Diana Wynne Jones (2/19)
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, George Saunders (2/19)
*Secondhand Time, Svetlana Alexievich (2/19)
A Sudden Wild Magic, Diana Wynne Jones (1/19)
*There There, Tommy Orange (1/19)
*Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman (1/19)
Tattoos on the Heart, Gregory Boyle (1/19)
A Place for Us, Fatima Farheen Mirza (1/19)
