2019: Got My Kicks Reading 66
Nonfiction: 43
Fiction: 22
Poetry: 1
Audiobooks: 6
1. Elevation - Stephen King F
2. Nomadland - Jessica Bruder NF
3. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman F
4.The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah F
5. If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin F
6. My Life in Middlemarch - Rebecca Mead NF
7. Clock Dance - Anne Tyler F
8. Becoming - Michelle Obama NF
9. Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters - Anne Boyd Rioux NF
10. The Library Book - Susan Orlean NF
11. The Dwelling Place - Catherine Cookson F
12. An American Marriage - Tayari Jones F
13. Dopesick - Beth Macy NF
14. Rin Tin Tin: The Life and The Legend - Susan Orlean NF
15. The Story of a Marriage - Andrew Sean Greer F
16. Unsheltered - Barbara Kingsolver F
17. Maid - Stephanie Land NF
18. Home Sweet Maison - Danielle Postel-Vinay NF
19. The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning - Margareta Magnusson NF
20. My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life - Ruth Reichl NF
21. The Art of Discarding - Nagisa Tatsumi NF
22. Love and Ruin - Paula McLain F
23. Hers: Design With a Feminine Touch - Jacqueline de Montravel NF
24. Buttermilk Graffiti - Edward Lee NF
25. Drinking: A Love Story - Caroline Knapp NF
26. Outer Order, Inner Calm - Gretchen Rubin NF
27. The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See F
28. One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way - Robert Maurer, Ph.D. NF
29. The Best American Food Writing 2018 - Ruth Reichl, ed. NF
30. Now and On Earth - Jim Thompson F
31. Food: A Love Story - Jim Gaffigan NF
32. Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947-1963 - Susan Sontag NF
33. As Consciousness Is Harnessed To Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980 - Susan Sontag NF
34. The Volcano Lover - Susan Sontag F
35. Henry, Himself - Stewart O'Nan F
36. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid F
37. Swimming in a Death Sea - David Rieff NF
38. The Escape Artists - Neal Bascomb NF
39. Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid F
40. Incoming Assets - Stephanie Williams and Celestian Rince NF
41. The Trial of Lizzie Borden - Cara Robertson NF
42. Three Women - Lisa Taddeo NF
43. I'll Be Gone in the Dark - Michelle McNamara NF
44. After A While You Just Get Used To It: A Tale of Family Clutter - Gwendolyn Knapp NF
45. Sempre Susan - Sigrid Nunez NF
46. The Pioneers - David McCullough NF
47. Dancing Fish and Ammonites - Penelope Lively NF
48. The Government Lake - James Tate P
49. Happy All the Time - Laurie Colwin F
50. A Ladder to the Sky - John Boyne F
51. What Is the Story of Frankenstein? - Sheila Keenan NF
52. Bettyville - George Hodgman NF
53. Sontag: Her Life and Work - Benjamin Moser NF
54. What Do We Need Men For? - E. Jean Carroll NF
55. The Truth About Mary Rose - Marilyn Sachs F
56. The Grief Recovery Handbook - John W. James and Russell Friedman NF
57. The Sterile Cuckoo - John Nichols F
58. Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell NF
59. Dannemora - Charles A. Gardner NF
60. Blink - Malcolm Gladwell NF
61. Go Down Together - Jeff Guinn NF
62. Varina - Charles Frazier F
63. Born Round - Frank Bruni NF
64. Middlemarch - George Eliot F
65. Spam: A Biography - Carolyn Wyman NF
66. A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis NF
6 comments:
Nicely done, Susan. I'm particularly impressed with your fiction to nonfiction ratio. I've not once had it happen where my nonfiction titles exceed my fiction titles even though I almost always shoot for that when starting a new reading-year.
That's a great and varied list. I didn't realize you read so much nonfiction. I barely read any at all - only five NF titles in 2019. Do you read NF by whim or by theme?
Sam, I was surprised nonfiction won by so large of a margin.
Ruthiella, looking back, seems like themes emerge: grief, elderly or gravely parents, struggles getting by in America, organizing/discarding, and Susan Sontag.
Malcolm Gladwell! Outlaws on the lam!
Food writing is a perennial favorite.
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