Books Read: 2019

January
   1. The Souls of Yellow Folk: Stories. Wesley Yang. 2018
   2. No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria. Rania Abouzeid. 2018
   3. Everything is Illuminated. Jonathan Safran Foer. 2015
   4. The Mars Room. Rachel Kushner. 2018
   5. A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories. Lucia Berlin. 2015
   6. Improvement. Joan Silber. 2017
   7. The Great Believers. Rebecca Makkai. 2018

February
   8. How To Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. Michael Pollan. 2018
   9. A Little Life. Hanya Yanagihara. 2015
  10. Go Tell It on the Mountain. James Baldwin. 1953
  11. The People in the Trees. Hanya Yanagihara. 2013
  12. The Great American Novel. Philip Roth. 1973
  13. The Sellout. Paul Beatty. 2015

March
  14. There There. Tommy Orange. 2018
  15. Tenth of December: Stories. George Saunders. 2018
  16. Fates and Furies. Lauren Groff. 2015
  17. The House of Broken Angels. Luis Alberto Urrea. 2018
  18. The Cave. Jose Saramago. 2001
  19. Gingerbread. Helen Oyeyemi. 2019
  20. Rich in Russia. John Updike. 2011

April
  21. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. John Dower. 1999
  22. Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. Gilbert King. 2012
  23. The Only Story. Julian Barnes. 2018
  24. Future Home of the Living God. Louise Erdrich. 2017
  25. The Sense of an Ending. Julian Barnes. 2011
  26. Metroland. Julian Barnes. 1984
  27. Flaubert's Parrot. Julian Barnes. 1984
  28. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Ann Patchett. 2013
  29. A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters. Julian Barnes. 1989

May
  30. Giovanni's Room. James Baldwin. 1956
  31. Travels With My Aunt. Graham Greene. 1969
  32. Conversations With Friends. Sally Rooney. 2017
  33. Normal People. Sally Rooney. 2018
  34. The Twenty Days of Turin. Giorgio Di Maria. 1975
  35. White Tears. Hari Kunzru. 2017
  36. The Trespasser. Tana French. 2016

June
  37. In the Woods. Tana French. 2007
  38. The Best American Travel Writing 2013. Elizabeth Gilbert (Ed). 2013
  39. The Way We Eat Now: Strategies for Eating in World of Change. Bee Wilson. 2019
  40. Clandestine in Chile: The Adventures of Miguel Littin. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 1986
  41. In Praise of Reading and Literature: The Nobel Lecture. Mario Vargas Llosa. 2011
  42. Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002. Salman Rushdie. 2002
  43. The Likeness. Tana French. 2008

July
  44. Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis. Jared Diamond. 2019
  45. City of Girls. Elizabeth Gilbert. 2019
  46. My Seditious Heart: Collected Non-Fiction. Arundhati Roy. 2019
  47. Orange World and Other Stories. Karen Russell, 2019
  48. Where Reason Ends. Yiyun Li. 2019
  49. The End of the End of the World: Essays. Jonathan Franzen. 2018

August
  50. Adele. Leila Slimani. 2014
  51. Where the Crawdads Sing. Delia Owens. 2018
  52. Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark. Cecelia Watson. 2019
  53. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Jonathan Safran Foer. 2005
  54. Chances Are... Richard Russo. 2019
  55. Life Among the Savages. Shirley Jackson. 1948
  56. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion. Jia Tolentino. 2019
  57. Three Women. Lisa Taddeo. 2019
  58. Shame. Salman Rushdie. 1983

September
  59. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster. Svetlana Alexievich. 1997
  60. The Bean Trees. Barbara Kingsolver. 1988
  61. The Painted Bird. Jerzy Kosinski. 1965
  62. Calypso. David Sedaris. 2018
  63. Disgrace. J.M. Coetzee. 1999
  64. Lady in the Lake. Laura Lippman. 2019
  65. The Chosen. Chaim Potok. 1967
  66. The Dutch House. Ann Patchett. 2019
  67. The Institute. Stephen King. 2019
  68. The Secret History. Donna Tartt. 1992

October
  69. In Cold Blood. Truman Capote. 1966
  70. Purple Hibiscus. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 2004
  71. Half of a Yellow Sun. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 2006
  72. The Virgin Suicides. Jeffrey Eugenides. 1993
  73. The Reader. Bernhard Schlink. 1995 
  74. We the Animals. Justin Torres. 2012
  75. Trust Exercise. Susan Choi. 2019
  76. The Vegetarian. Han Kang. 2015
  77. Grand Union: Stories. Zadie Smith. 2019

November
  78. Broken Harbor. Tana French. 2012
  79. Faithful Place. Tana French. 2010
  80. People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up. Richard Lloyd Parry. 2011
  81. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. William Finnegan. 2019

December
  82. The Topeka School. Ben Lerner. 2019
  83. The Tiger's Wife. Tea Obreht. 2011
  84. Dear Life: Stories. Alice Munro. 2012
  85. How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story on How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS. David France. 2016