So apparently, the last blog post I wrote was about books I wanted to read in 2018. And here it is, the very end of that year, and I haven’t blogged a bit since then. At first, I thought I couldn’t possibly just post about books I would like to read in 2019. No. First, I should update everyone on last year’s list, write detailed reviews of the books I read, post a recipe or two…and only then would I earn the right to just skip on over to 2019.
But that’s not going to happen. You know it. I know it. So we’re just going to say that it’s actually okay to not blog for a year and then to just saunter on in here with a new book list. Because…well, it is. It’s okay.
As a very brief update, I didn’t read every book on my 2018 list. But I did read a bunch of them. And I know I read more from that list than I would have if I hadn’t made a list at all.
So with a new year spread out before me, my mind immediately starts making new lists — not least of which is a list of books I’d like to read in 2019. I’ve pulled these books from recommendations — from friends, from random people on Twitter, from Goodreads — and from “Best of 2018” lists, and from books languishing on my Kindle, patiently waiting to be read. There’s a mix of nonfiction and fiction. And I can’t resist including some Middle Grade and YA books — they are often my very favorites, after all.
So let’s jump in, shall we? Here are 19 books I’m hoping to read in 2019.
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Non-fiction
| Non-Fiction | |
| The More of Less by Joshua Becker |   |
| A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War by Joseph Loconte |   |
| How to Get Unstuck by Matt Perman |   |
| On Reading Well by Karen Swallow Prior |   |
| How to Think by Alan Jacobs |   |
| General Fiction | |
| Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate |   |
| The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton |   |
| Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik |   |
| The Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz |   |
| Force of Nature by Jane Harper |   |
| Circe by Madeline Miller |   |
| Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens |   |
| Virgil Wander by Leif Enger |   |
| The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah |   |
| Middle Grade & YA Fiction | |
| The Skeleton Tree by Iain Lawrence |   |
| Greenglass House by Kate Milford |   |
| The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter Brown |   |
| Skyward by Brandon Sanderson |   |
| Scythe by Neal Shusterman |   |
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