2019 Book List

Hey friends! I've decided to start posting on this blog more often. I'm even thinking of recombining my family blog with this one, just for simplicity's sake. We will see if I can figure out the details of that. haha.

So, I decided it would be fun to keep a record of all the books I read this past year. Most of them were listened to as audiobooks, but considering I was selling a house and moving to a new state during a good chunk of the year, I'm pretty happy with my 29 books for 2019. Have you read any good books lately? Is there anything I should add to my to-read list?

If I were to recommend one book from the past year, I would say to read "The Choice: Embrace the Possible" by Edith Eva Eger. It's a memoir written by a Holocaust survivor who is still living. I was inspired by her story of healing and hope. Watch her TedTalk to get a glimpse of her spunk and inspirational message. Happy reading to you all!

Books marked with asterisks** were favorites of mine.   

JANUARY:
"In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette"  by Hampton Sides
**"Before We Were Yours: A Novel" by Lisa Wingate
"The Problem of Pain" by CS Lewis

FEBRUARY:
"The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

MARCH
**"A Place for Us: A Novel" by Fatima Farheen Mirza
"The Secret Lives of Color" by Kassia St. Clair

APRIL:
**"A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel" by Amor Towles

MAY:
“Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City” by Matthew Desmond
"Little Men (150th Anniversary Edition): Illustrated Classic" by Louisa May Alcott

JUNE:
**"Where the Crawdads Sing:  A Novel" by Delia Owens
"When Breath Becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi

JULY:
**"Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption" by Bryan Stevenson
**"Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel" by Mark Sullivan

AUGUST:
"Becoming" by Michelle Obama

SEPTEMBER:  (this is when I started reading with the kids for the new school year, so we picked up the pace here)
**"The Choice: Embrace the Possible" by Edith Eger
**"The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
"Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
"Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry
"A Girl Named Zippy" by Haven Kimmel

OCTOBER:
"The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice" by Anthony Ray Hinton and Lara Love Hardin
"The Bronze Bow" by Elizabeth George Speare
"The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

NOVEMBER:
"7 Tipping Points That Saved the World" by Chris and Ted Stewart
"I Heard the Owl Call My Name" by Margaret Craven
**"The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (P.S.)" by William Kamkwamba
"Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson

DECEMBER:
"Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption" by Katie Davis
"Book of Mormon" (currently reading for the 2nd time this year)
“The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women”  by Camron Wright


ON MY SHORT LIST TO READ SOON:
"Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
"Resistance Women: A Novel" by Jennifer Chiaverini

"A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story" by Linda Sue Park
"The Orphan Keeper" by Camron Wright

"Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End" by Atul Gawande


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