reading list: 2019

January 2019: (6)

• Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
• I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist
• The Souls of Yellow Folk by Wesley Yang
• Hits and Misses: Stories by Simon Rich
• The Merry Spinster: Tales of Everyday Horror by Mallory Ortberg
• Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages by Gaston Dorren

February 2019: (6)

• The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
• The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
• The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani
• Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller
• Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
• Six Months, Three Days, Five Others by Charlie Jane Anders

March 2019: (10)

• Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu
• The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• The Test by Sylvain Neuvel
• Transit by Rachel Cusk
• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
• The Legion of Flame by Anthony Ryan
• How Long ‘til Black Future Month?: Stories by N. K. Jemisin
• The Empire of Ashes by Anthony Ryan

April 2019: (9)

• The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America by Tommy Tomlinson
• Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism by Rebecca Solnit
• Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
• The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani
• Admission: A Novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz
• The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston
• Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin
• In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt

May 2019: (11)

• Broke Millennial Takes On Investing: A Beginner’s Guide to Leveling Up Your Money by Erin Lowry
• Tiamat’s Wrath by James S. A. Corey
• The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
• The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
• Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason by William Davies
• Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
• The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
• The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang
• Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by Clive Thompson
• Golden State by Ben H. Winters
• Vigilance by Robert Jackson Bennett

June 2019: (10)

• Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
• Kudos by Rachel Cusk
• Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
• Melmoth by Sarah Perry
• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• The Fighters by C.J. Chivers
• The White Book by Han Kang
• Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
• Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes by Jessica Pan

July 2019: (10)

• No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder
• Naked in Death by J.D. Robb
• Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
• Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
• Bunny by Mona Awad
• Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang
• Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
• The Need by Helen Phillips
• Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
• The Moth Presents All These Wonders: True Stories About Facing the Unknown edited by Catherine Burns, foreword by Neil Gaiman

August 2019: (9)

• East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity” by Philippe Sands
• The Redemption of Time: A Three-Body Problem Novel by Baoshu (audiobook)
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
• Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure by Monisha Rajesh
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
• The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang

September 2019: (12)

• Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self Delusion by Jia Tolentino
• Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley by Corey Pein
• Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Painter
• Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
• The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
• Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty and Dianné Ruz
• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
• The Red Threads of Fortune by JY Yang
• The Descent of Monsters by JY Yang
• The Institute by Stephen King
• The Undying by Anne Boyer
• A People’s Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers edited by Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams

October 2019: (10)

• How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe
• Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood (reread)
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data by David Spiegelhalter (unfinished)
• The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us by Paul Tough
• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder (reread)
• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
• The Ascent to Godhood by JY Yang
• Coventry: Essays by Rachel Cusk
• How to Be Alone by Lane Moore
• Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

November 2019: (7)

• Rocheworld by Robert L. Forward (unfinished)
• The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman
• Amnesty by Lara Elena Donnelly
• Full Throttle: Stories by Joe Hill
• The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West
• How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
• The Strange Bird: A Borne Story by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power

December 2019: (11)

• Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev
• Supernova Era by Cixin Liu (audiobook) (unfinished)
• The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
• Magic For Liars by Sarah Gailey
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• All Systems Red by Martha Wells
• The Invisible Orientation by Julie Sondra Decker
• The Factory by Hiroko Oyamada, translated by David Boyd
• Cold Storage by David Koepp
• Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
• Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
• Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

Total count: 111