2019 Book List

I was a voracious reader all through school, until I got mired in junior/senior year engineering classes (and something had to give). In 2018, I started keeping a running list of the books I completed. In 2018, I finished 52 books (an average of one a week!). Last year, with most of the year consumed by wedding planning, I decided that setting a goal was not worth it. I ended up finishing the year with 47 new reads completed - which I'm all the more impressed by, since I didn't read a thing between early October and early December. I'm excited to see where reading leads in 2020!

January

• This Could Change Everything - Jill Mansell (1/3)
• Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win - Jo Piazza (1/8)
• Number One Chinese Restaurant – Lillian Li (1/12)
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before – Jenny Han (1/17)
• Reagan: An American Journey – Bob Spitz (1/28)

February

• P.S. I Love You – Cecilia Ahern (2/15)

March

• The Road to Character – David Brooks (3/7)
• Emma: A Modern Retelling – Alexander McCall Smith (3/18)
• A Gentleman in Moscow – Amor Towles (3/26)
• Becoming – Michelle Obama (3/28)

April

• The Godfather – Mario Puzo (4/12)
• Still Alice – Lisa Genova (4/15)

May

• The Second Mountain – David Brooks (5/2)
• Jaws – Peter Benchley (5/9)
• First: Sandra Day O’Connor (5/15)
• The Moment of Lift – Melinda Gates (5/21)
• Inheritance – Dani Shapiro (5/25)
• Maid – Stephanie Land (5/31)

June

• A Hundred Summers – Beatriz Williams (6/4)
• How to Be Good – Nick Hornby (6/10)
• The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton (6/13)
• The Daring Ladies of Lowell – Kate Alcott (6/17)
• Rules for Visiting – Jessica Francis Kane (6/25)
• Mrs. Everything – Jennifer Weiner (6/27)

July

• The Unhoneymooners – Christina Lauren (7/4)
• I Miss You When I Blink – Mary Laura Philipett (7/14)
• The Guest Book – Sarah Blake (7/20)

August

• Daisy Jones and the Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid (8/5)
• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone – Lori Gottlieb (8/7)
• Our Towns – James Fallows & Deborah Fallows (8/17)
• Resistance Women – Jennifer Chiaverini (8/21)
• Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys Club of Silicon Valley – Emily Chang (8/23)
• Postgrad: five women and their first year out of college – Caroline Kitchener (8/25)

September

• Janesville: an American story – Amy Goldstein (9/1)
• Lake of the Ozarks – Bill Geist (9/5)
• Operation Paperclip – Annie Jacobsen (9/10)
• Karamo: my story of embracing purpose, healing, and hope – Karamo Brown w/ Jancee Dunn (9/15)
• The Stepford Wives – Ira Levin (9/16)
• Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker – Jennifer Chiaverini (9/20)

October

• Travel light, move fast – Alexandra Fuller (10/4)
• Reset: my fight for inclusion and lasting change – Ellen Pao (10/7)

December

• The education of an idealist – Samantha Power (12/6)
• Dear girls – Ali Wong (12/12)
• The Dutch house – Ann Patchett (12/17)
• Evvie Drake Starts Over – Linda Holmes (12/20)
• Searching for Sylvie Lee – Jean Kwok (12/24)
• Meg & Jo – Virginia Kantra (12/26)