I wanted to wait until now to share what I read in 2019 since I was finishing up a book earlier this week and wasn’t sure if I’d finish by January 1. (Surprise, I did finish it.) Below you’ll find a list of books I read by month, a list of books I started but didn’t finish, and a list of books I think you should read.

January

• Hot Asset by Lauren Layne: 4 stars
• Intercepted by Alexa Martin: 2 stars
• Life on the Leash by Victoria Schade: 2 stars
• My Ex-Life by Stephen McCauley: 4 stars
• Turbo Twenty-Three by Janet Evanovich: 4 stars
• The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah: 4 stars

February

• Baseball Cop by Eddie Dominguez: 4 stars
• For Better and Worse by Margot Hunt: 3 stars
• The Incomplete Book of Running by Peter Sagal: 4 stars
• Big Game by Mark Leibovich: 4 stars

March

• One Day in December by Josie Silver: 4 stars
• Limelight by Amy Poeppel: 4 stars
• Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco: 5 stars
• Beartown by Fredrik Backman: 5 stars
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury: 4 stars
• Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel: 4 stars

April

• Good Riddance by Elinor Lipman: 1 star
• My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren: 5 stars
• Shortest Way Home: One Mayor’s Challenge and a Model for America’s Future by Pete Buttigieg: 5 stars

May

• Savage News by Jessica Yellin: 3 stars
• Before and Again by Barbara Delinsky: 3 stars
• Talk to Me by John Kenney: 4 stars
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman: 5 stars

June

• The Better Sister by Alafair Burke: 4 stars
• Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane: 5 stars
• When You Read This by Mary Adkins: 5 stars
• The Admissions by Meg Mitchell Moore: 4 stars
• How To Walk Away by Katherine Center: 4 stars
• Lost and Found Sisters by Jill Shalvis: 4 stars

July

• The Perfect Alibi by Phillip Margolin:1 star
• The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms: 4 stars
• I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott: 5 stars
• Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid: 4 stars
• My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman: 3 stars
• The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary: 5 stars
• Park Avenue Summer by Renee Rosen: 4 stars

August

• When Life Gives You Lululemons by Lauren Weisberger: 3 stars
• Tell Me Everything by Cambria Brockman: 2 stars
• The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren: 4 stars
• The City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert: 3 stars
• The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth: 4 stars
• The Last Book Party by Karen Dukess: 1 star
• Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer: 5 stars

September

• Life is a Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance by Matt Fitzgerald: 4 stars
• Unwritten: Bat Flips, the Fun Police, and Baseball’s New Future by Danny Knobler: 3 stars
• The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal: 5 stars
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb: 5 stars

October

• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston: 5 stars
• Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch: 4 stars
• The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna by Juliet Grames: 4 stars
• Whisper Network by Chandler Baker: 2 stars

November

• Barack and Joe: The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership by Steven Levingston: 4 stars
• Say You Still Love Me by K.A. Tucker: 3 stars
• Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer by John Glynn: 4 stars
• Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes: 3 stars
• The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez: 3 stars

December

• Campusland by Scott Johnston: 5 stars
• Class Mom by Laurie Gelman: 3 stars
• The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman: 5 stars
• Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett: 2 stars
• City of Windows by Robert Pobi: 4 stars
• Saints for All Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan: 4 stars
• Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center: 4 stars
• The Other’s Gold by Elizabeth Ames: 2 stars

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Books I Started but Didn’t Finish

• The Shortest Way Home by Miriam Parker
• Landfall by Thomas Mallon
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• Very Nice by Marcy Dermansky
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt

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Books I Loved That You Should Read ASAP

• Beartown by Fredrik Backman
• Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel
• My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren
• A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
• Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane
• When You Read This by Mary Adkins
• I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott
• The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
• The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
• Campusland by Scott Johnston
• The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman

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What were some of your favorite books you read in 2019? ALSO! If you haven’t already, check out Paul’s blogger block party! I met some awesome people at last year’s so I’m sure you will too 🙂