It’s time for my top lists of the year. I’ll only be doing Books and Films again this year, it’s where I spend the majority of my entertainment time (games are work). I wasn’t able to invest the time needed to make a Concerts or Albums list, that’s not saying I didn’t listen to new music and see shows, just I didn’t invest the time I feel is needed to make a list.
We will start this year with books, this one is a little different in that the books didn’t have to come out this year, BUT they had to be a new read to me (or a reread of something I may not have grasped when younger). I read/listened to 93 books this year, a new record for me! So here are my top (recommended) books of 2019, in no particular order but split it into fiction and nonfiction. There are a lot because, I read a lot!
Non- Fiction
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know
- The Coddling of the American Mind
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- Becoming
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
- Fly Girls: How Five Daring Women Defied All Odds and Made Aviation History
- The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
- The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
- The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
- Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Fiction
- Where the Crawdads Sing
- Cutting for Stone
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Recursion
- Stronger, Faster, and More Beautiful
- The Immortalists
- Daisy Jones & The Six
- People of the Book
- Treasure Island
- A Tale of Two Cities
Honorable Mention
- The Women Who Flew for Hitler: The True Story of Hitler’s Valkyries
- East of Eden
- Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
- Amity and Prosperity: A Story of Energy in Two American Towns
- Hamilton: The Revolution
- My Friend Anna
- Code Name: Lise. The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII’s Most Highly Decorated Spy
- Unthinkable: What the World’s Most Extraordinary Brains Can Teach Us About Our Own
- Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
- The Modern Girl’s Guide to Travel
Older List: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
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