I read 52 books this year. That’s one for every week!
It wasn’t exactly one book a week, and some of these were audiobooks that I listened to while driving the scientists to and from school and such, but I heard somewhere that audiobooks still count – and so I counted them.
Not included are all the textbooks I read in my college courses, though there were plenty – They are somehow not the same in my mind.
I am a little proud of myself. It feels like if nothing else worked out this year, I still have this “I read 52 book in 2019”. Though if I’m being honest, I don’t remember what all of these were about anymore – It’s been a long year.
Here they are, listed alphabetically:
- A History of the World in 6 Glasses – Tom Standage (reread)
- An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding – David Hume
- Becoming – Michelle Obama
- Becoming Mrs. Lewis – Patti Callahan
- Bedwetter – Sarah Silverman
- Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Braving the Wilderness – Brené Brown
- Call Me by Your Name – André Aciman
- Circe – Madeline Miller
- City of Illusion – Ursala K. Le Guin
- Coyote America – Dan Flores
- Culinary Reactions – Simon Quellen Field
- Disappearing Spoon – Sam Kean
- Educated: A Memoir – Tara Westover
- Eight Flavors – Sarah Lohman (reread)
- Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
- God is Not One – Stephen Prothero
- Gold Dust Woman – Stephan Davis
- Go Set a Watchman – Harper Lee
- Growing A Revolution – Eric Michael Summerer
- Idoru – William Gibson
- Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Wolf
- My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
- Mycophilia: Revelations From the Weird World of Mushrooms – Eugenia Bone
- My Own Words – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett, Wendy W. Williams
- On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong
- Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness – Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Proust and the Squid – Maryanne Wolf (reread)
- Rocannon’s World – Ursala K. Le Guin
- Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come – Jessica Pan
- The Afterlives – Thomas Pierce
- The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek – Kim Michele Richardson
- The Botany of Desire – Michael Pollan
- The Circle – Dave Eggers
- The Disaster Artist – Tom Bissell
- The Far Field – Madhuri Vijay
- The Fifth Season – NK Jemisin
- The Forgotten Language – Erich Fomm
- The Golden Thread – Kassia St. Clair
- The Good neighbor – Maxwell King
- The Hidden Life of Trees – Peter Wohlleben (reread)
- The Museum of Modern Love – Heather Rose
- The Obelisk Gate – NK Jemisin
- The Pattern Instinct – Jeremy Lent
- The Songs of Achilles – Madeline Miller
- The Source of Self Regard – Toni Morrison
- The Stone Sky – NK Jemisin
- The Three-Body Problem – Cixin Liu
- Understanding Beliefs – Nils J. Nilsson
- Understanding Complexity – Scott E. Page
- Unwarrented – Barry Friedman
- Yes Please – Amy Poehler
Let me know if you’ve got a list from 2019, or a list started to tackle in 2020. I’d love to know what you are reading.