Read in 2019

This is a list of all the books I’ve read in 2019!

Here’s my answers to questions before you ask:

• Yes, I have read a lot of books, I am a very fast reader. I manage about 100 pages per hour.
• Yes, I read audiobooks, which is also the reason I have read so many books.
• Yes, audiobooks count as real reading. If you disagree, then that’s incredibly ableist.

I’ve also included a little key to indicate which books are the best ones I’ve read this year, and which ones are now an all-time favourite. As you can see, there are some books I’ve rated 5 stars that I don’t consider the best of 2019 and some that I’ve rated 4 stars that I do consider the best of 2019. This is because a book that I rated 5 stars might resonate deeply and personally with me, but I know that an element of the book — perhaps the writing — wasn’t strong and therefore I don’t think is the best book I’ve read for 2019. I tend to rate quite a few books 5 stars for how it affected me. Hopefully that makes sense 😅

🏅 = best of 2019
💖 = now an all-time favourite

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Read in January: 

1. The Cruel Prince by Holly Black – 5 stars – 🏅
2. Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan – 5 stars – 🏅
3. The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket – 4 stars
4. Criminal Intentions: Cult of Personality by Cole McCade – 5 stars
5. Any Old Diamonds by KJ Charles – 5 stars – 🏅💖
6. Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault – 4 stars – 🏅
7. The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket – 4 stars
8. The End by Lemony Snicket – 2 stars
9. Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston – 5 stars 🏅💖
10. Rend by Roan Parrish – 5 stars – 🏅
11. The Wicked King by Holly Black – 5 stars – 🏅
12. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens – 3 stars
13. The Mermaid’s Voice Returns in This One by Amanda Lovelace – 4 stars

• novels: 12
• poetry: 1
• pages read: 4,151
• average rating: 4.3

Read in February:

1. Once Ghosted, Twice Shy by Alyssa Cole – 4 stars
2. The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum – 5 stars – 🏅
3. In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard – 4 stars
4. Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh – 4 stars
5. Criminal Intentions: Collateral Damage by Cole McCade – 4 stars
6. The Fever King by Victoria Lee – 5 stars – 🏅
7. The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi – 5 stars – 🏅
8. The Lightning-Struck Heart by TJ Klune (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
9. The Time Traveler’s Guide to Modern Romance by Madeline J. Reynolds – 3 stars
10. Daring Duke by Anyta Sunday – 3 stars
11. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro – 4 stars
12. The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon – 5 stars – 🏅💖

• novels: 7
• novellas: 4
• audiobooks: 1
• rereads: 1
• pages read: 3,793
• average rating: 4.25

Read in March:

1. A Destiny of Dragons by TJ Klune (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
2. Bear, Otter, and the Kid by TJ Klune – 5 stars – 🏅
3. Who We Are by TJ Klune – 5 stars – 🏅
4. The Art of Breathing by TJ Klune – 5 stars – 🏅
5. The Long and Winding Road by TJ Klune – 5 stars – 🏅
6. Criminal Intentions: A Single Bright Candle’s Flame by Cole McCade – 5 stars – 🏅
7. The Consumption of Magic by TJ Klune (reread)  – 5 stars – 🏅💖
8. Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters – 5 stars – 🏅
9. A Wish Upon the Stars by TJ Klune (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
10. The Tragic Life of Lady Tina DeSilva by TJ Klune – 5 stars – 🏅
11. Wolfsong by TJ Klune (reread)  – 5 stars – 🏅💖
12. Ravensong by TJ Klune (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
13. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell – 2 stars
14. Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram – 5 stars –  🏅
15. Mr. Big Empty by Gregory Ashe – 5 stars – 🏅
16. All the Inside Howling by Gregory Ashe – 5 stars – 🏅
17. The Dust Feast by Gregory Ashe – 5 stars – 🏅

• novels: 16
• short stories: 1
  
• audiobooks: 5
• rereads: 5
• pages read: 6,647
• average rating: 4.85

Read in April: 

1. How to Be a Normal Person by TJ Klune – 5 stars – 🏅
2. Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner – 4 stars
3. Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones – 5 stars – 🏅💖
4. Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson – 4 stars
5. The Poppy War by K.F. Kuang – 5 stars – 🏅
6. Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard – 5 stars – 🏅
7. My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite – 4 stars
8. The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu – 5 stars – 🏅💖
9. Proper English by KJ Charles – 5 stars – 🏅💖
10. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers – 2 stars
11. The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon – 4 stars – 🏅
12. Darkling by Brooklyn Ray – 4 stars
13. The Soldier’s Scoundrel by Cat Sebastian – 5 stars – 🏅💖
14. The Lawrence Browne Affair by Cat Sebastian – 4 stars – 🏅
15. The Ruin of a Rake by Cat Sebastian – 4 stars – 🏅
16. A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole – 5 stars – 🏅
17. Traitor’s Moon by Lynn Flewelling – 5 stars – 🏅
18. Criminal Intentions: Backdraft by Cole McCade – 4 stars

• novels: 15
• novellas: 2
• graphic novels: 1
• audiobooks: 6
• pages read: 5,993
• average rating: 4.2

Read in May:

1. Team Phison Forever by Chace Verity – 5 stars – 🏅
2. Lumberjanes, Vol. 2: Friendship to the Max by Noelle Stevenson – 4 stars
3. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo – 5 stars – 🏅
4. Top Secret by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy – 5 stars – 🏅💖
5. Lucky Charm by Chace Verity – 4 stars
6. Lumberjanes, Vol. 3: A Terrible Plan by Noelle Stevenson – 3 stars
7. I Knew Him by Abigail de Niverville – 4 stars
8. If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anna Carson (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
9. Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds – 4 stars
10. Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames – 5 stars – 🏅
11. Tell Me It’s Real by TJ Klune – 3 stars
12. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry – 4 stars – 🏅
13. The Queen & the Homo Jock King by TJ Klune – 3 stars
14. Until You by TJ Klune – 4 stars
15. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin – 5 stars – 🏅💖
16. Murmuration by TJ Klune – 4 stars
17. The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅
18. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes – 5 stars – 🏅💖
19. My Brother’s Husband, Volume 1 by Gengoroh Tagame – 5 stars – 🏅
20. My Brother’s Husband, Volume 2 by Gengoroh Tagame – 5 stars – 🏅
21. How to Be a Normal Person by TJ Klune (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅
22. Finding Home, Vol. 1: The Traveller by Hari Conner – 3 stars
23. The North Water by Ian McGuire – 2.5 stars
24. A Seditious Affair by KJ Charles (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
25. The Soldier’s Scoundrel by Cat Sebastian (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
26. Crescendo by Cole McCade – 4 stars
27. How to Be a Movie Star by TJ Klune – 5 stars – 🏅

• novels: 10
• audiobooks: 11
• graphic novels: 4
• webcomic: 1
• poetry: 1
• reread: 5
• pages read: 7,439
• average rating: 4.2

Read in June: 

1. The Hatter’s Game: Part I by Cole McCade – 4 stars – 🏅
2. The Hatter’s Game: Part II by Cole McCade – 4 stars – 🏅
3. Leo Loves Aries by Anyta Sunday (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
4. Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins – 4 stars
5. The Obelisk Gate by NK Jemisin – 4 stars – 🏅💖
6. Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
7. Prince’s Gambit by C.S. Pacat (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
8. Kings Rising by C.S. Pacat (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
9. Team Phison by Chace Verity (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
10. His Quiet Agent by Ada Marie Soto – 4 stars
11. Merlin in the Library by Ada Marie Soto – 4 stars
12. Undertow by Brooklyn Ray – 4 stars
13. Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh – 3 stars
14. I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver – 4 stars
15. Check, Please!: #Hockey, Vol. 1 by Ngozi Ukazu – 5 stars – 🏅💖
16. Check, Please! Year Three by Ngozi Ukazu – 5 stars – 🏅💖
17. The Mortal Sleep by Gregory Ashe – 2.5 stars
18. Super Fun Sexy Times by Meredith McClaren – 4.5 stars – 🏅
19. The Summer Palace by C.S. Pacat (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
20. Saga Land by Richard Fidler & Kari Gislason – 4 stars
21. Aphrodite Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer – 5 stars – 🏅
22. Unbroken by Brooklyn Ray – 5 stars – 🏅
23. A Gentleman’s Position by KJ Charles (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
24. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki – 3 stars
25. A Fashionable Indulgence by KJ Charles (reread) – 4 stars – 🏅
26. Raze by Roan Parrish – 5 stars – 🏅💖
27. Lumberjanes, Vol. 4: Out of Time by Noelle Stevenson – 4 stars
28. Lumberjanes, Vol. 5: Band Together by Noelle Stevenson – 3 stars

• novels: 11
• audiobooks: 8
• graphic novels: 5
• short stories: 2
• webcomic: 1
• poetry: 1
• reread: 8
• pages read: 6,702
• average rating: 4.3

Read in July:

1. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden – 3 stars
2. XX by Angela Chadwick – 2 stars
3. Stage Dreams by Melanie Gillman – 4 stars
4. The Bravest Knight Who Ever Lived by Daniel Errico – 4 stars
5. The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons – 5 stars – 🏅💖
6. The One Hundred Nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg – 5 stars -🏅
7. Captive by Jex Lane – 3 stars
8. On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden – 5 stars – 🏅
9. The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin – 5 stars – 🏅
10. Prince of Air and Darkness by M.A. Grant – 4 stars
11. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson – 2.5 stars
12. Bloom by Kevin Panetta – 3 stars
13. Sleepless, Vol. 1 by Sarah Vaughn – 5 stars – 🏅
14. Sleepless, Vol. 2 by Sarah Vaughn – 5 stars – 🏅
15. The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty – 5 stars – 🏅💖

• novels: 6
• audiobooks: 1
• graphic novels: 6
• kids books: 1
• pages read: 4,920
• average rating: 4.06

Read in August:

1. Goalie Interference by Avon Gale and Piper Vaughn – 4 stars – 🏅
2. Docile by K.M. Szpara – 5 stars – 🏅💖
3. The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite – 5 stars – 🏅
4. Curses, Foiled Again by Sera Trevor – 3 stars
5. Takeover by Anna Zabo – 4 stars – 🏅
6. A Little Light Mischief by Cat Sebastian – 5 stars – 🏅
7. Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea by Ben Clanton – 4 stars
8. Super Narwhal and Jelly Jolt by Ben Clanton – 4 stars
9. The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang – 4 stars
10. The Soldier’s Scoundrel by Cat Sebastian (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
11. The Lawrence Browne Affair by Cat Sebastian (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅
12. The Ruin of a Rake by Cat Sebastian (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅
13. The Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty – 5 stars – 🏅💖
14. Heartsong by T.J. Klune – 5 stars – 🏅💖
15. The Lightning-Struck Heart by T.J. Klune (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
16. Work for It by Talia Hibbert – 5 stars – 🏅💖

• novels: 9
• audiobooks: 4
• kids books: 2
• novellas: 1
• reread: 4
• pages read: 5,471
• average rating: 4.43

Read in September:

1. Ravensong by TJ Klune (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
2. Jade City by Fonda Lee – 4 stars – 🏅
3. Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta – 4 stars – 🏅
4. Wolfsong by TJ Klune (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
5. A Destiny of Dragons by TJ Klune (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
6. The Bedlam Stacks by Natasha Pulley – 5 stars – 🏅
7. The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson – 5 stars – 🏅
8. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara – 5 stars – 🏅
9. How to be a Movie Star by TJ Klune (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
10. How to be a Normal Person by TJ Klune (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
11. Free Hand by E.M. Lindsey – 3 stars
12. Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig – 5 stars – 🏅💖
13. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli – 5 stars – 🏅
14. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo – 5 stars – 🏅💖

• novels: 6
• audiobooks: 8
• reread: 5
• pages read: 4,508
• average rating: 4.71

Read in October:

1. The Infinite Noise by Lauren Shippen – 5 stars – 🏅
2. The Winter Quarters by Anna Veriani – 5 stars – 🏅
3. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke – 3 stars
4. The Binding by Bridget Collins – 5 stars – 🏅💖
5. The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern – 5 stars – 🏅💖
6. Witchmark by C.L. Polk – 5 stars – 🏅
7. The Rat-Catcher’s Daughter by K.J. Charles – 4 stars – 🏅
8. Gilded Cage by K.J. Charles – 5 stars – 🏅
9. Room for Three? by Katrina Jackson – 3 stars
10. The Name of All Things by Jenn Lyons – 5 stars – 🏅
11. Orientation by Gregory Ashe – 5 stars – 🏅
12. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado – 3 stars
13. Heartsong by TJ Klune (reread) – 5 stars – 🏅💖
14. Deosil by Jordan L. Hawk – 4 stars – 🏅
15. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – 5 stars – 🏅
16. Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan – 5 stars – 🏅

• novels: 9
• audiobooks: 4
• novellas: 2
• short stories: 1
• reread: 1
• pages read: 4,878
• average rating: 4.5

Read in November:

1. Criminal Intentions: The Golden Ratio by Cole McCade – 5 stars – 🏅
2. The Electric Heir by Victoria Lee – 5 stars – 🏅💖
3. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling – 4 stars
4. Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire – 5 stars – 🏅
5. This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone – 4 stars – 🏅
6. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling – 4 stars
7. The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black – 3 stars
8. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling – 5 stars – 🏅💖

• novels: 8
• reread: 3
• pages read: 2,532
• average rating: 4.3

Read in December: 

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling – 5 stars – 🏅💖
2. Crier’s War by Nina Varela – 5 stars – 🏅
3. The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood – 5 stars – 🏅
4. The Space Between by Meg Grehan – 4 stars
5. The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht – 4 stars – 🏅
6. Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants by Mathias Énard – 5 stars – 🏅💖
7. The Secret Sappho Society by – C.L. Cattano – 2 stars
8. Crush by Richard Silken – 4 stars
9. Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong – 4 stars
10. The School by Donald Bartheleme – 4 stars
11. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg – 4 stars
12. The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin – 3 stars
13. Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire – 3 stars
14. If Not, Winter by Anne Carson and Sappho – 5 stars – 🏅💖

• novels: 4
• novellas: 2
• short stories: 4
• poetry: 4
• reread: 1
• pages read: 2,908
• average rating: 4.2