Welcome to the summary of my reading for 2019! For the past few years, I’ve been a keen participant of the Goodreads Reading Challenge. This year I surpassed my target of 62 books completing 66 in twelve months.

Below are images of all the books I read as well a list of them all. When there is a link, this is to my review of the particular book published earlier in the year on my blog.

Some books are in italics and these are ones I completed as part of the Reading Across Time (When Are You Reading?) Challenge in which I’ve also taken part and I almost completed all twelve, apart from 1300 – 1499! The specific eras are listed after each of the italicized books.

Both of the challenges ensured I read widely and outside my normal genre and it has been a hugely enriching and rewarding year of books … I look forward to new books galore in 2020!

SPRING

• ‘The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra’ by Vaseem Khan
• ‘A Velocity of Being’ edited by Maria Popova & Claudia Bedrick
• ‘A Journal of the Plague Year’ by Daniel Defoe (1500-1699)
• ‘I’m Fine and Neither Are You’ by Camille Pagan
• ‘The Devil Aspect’ by Craig Russell
• ‘The Man I Fell in Love with’ by Kate Field
• ‘The Bookseller of Kabul’ by Asne Seierstad
• ‘Jezebel’ by Irene Nemirovsky
• ‘The Betrayal’ by Kate Furnivall
• ‘A Spark of Light’ by Jodi Picoult
• ‘Uncommon Type’ by Tom Hanks
• ‘Elisabeth’s Lists’ by Lulah Ellender
• ‘Youngblood Hawke’ by Herman Wouk (1940-1959)
• ‘Epic Love Epiphany’ by Lynn L Swisher
• ‘The Little Book of Hygge’ by Meik Wiking
• ‘The Survivors’ by Kate Furnivall (1920-1939)
• ‘Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (1980-1999)
• ‘This is Going to Hurt’ by Adam Kay (2000-The Present)

SUMMER

• ‘I Remember’ by Joe Brainard
• ’59 Memory Lane’ by Ceila Anderson
• ‘Postcards from a Stranger’ by Imogen Clark
• ‘The Binding’ by Bridget Collins
• ‘The Romanov Sisters’ by Helen Rappaport (1900-1919)
• ‘The Silver Ladies of Penny Lane’ by Dee MacDonald
• ‘Valencia and Valentine’ by Siggy Krause
• ‘The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown’ by Vaseem Khan
• ‘When I’m Gone’ by Emily Bleeker
• ‘Becoming’ by Michelle Obama
• ‘The Cactus’ by Sarah Haywood
• ‘Dry Hard’ by Nick Spalding
• ‘The Cut Out Girl’ by Bart van Es
• ‘You Then, Me Now’ by Nick Alexander
• ‘A Pinch of Magic’ by Michelle Harrison
• ‘The Kindness of Strangers’ edited by Fearghal O’Nuallain

AUTUMN

• ‘Simple’ by Anita Dawes
• ‘Dear Mrs Bird’ by A J Pearce
• ‘The Bottle of Tears’ by Nick Alexander
• ‘If I Die Before I Wake’ by Emily Koch
• ‘The Thing About Clare’ by Imogen Clark
• ‘About Grace’ by Anthony Doerr
• ‘Breakfast at The Hotel Deja Vu’ by Paul Today
• ‘The Date’ by Louise Jensen
• ‘The Day We Met’ by Roxie Cooper
• ‘Lab Girl’ by Hope Jahren
• ‘Blue Sky July’ by Nia Wyn
• ‘The Wall’ by Marlen Haushoffer (1960-1979)
• ‘The Wildflowers’ by Harriet Evans
• ‘My Heart is Boundless’ by Abigail May Alcott (1800-1899)
• ‘Moving’ by Jenny Eclair
• ‘A Contract of Honour’ by Roy McCarthy

WINTER

• ‘The Clan of the Cave Bear’ by Jean M. Auel (Pre-1300)
• ‘Oh Baubles’ by Harmony Kent
• ‘The Diary of a Bookseller’ by Shaun Bythell
• ‘All My Puny Sorrows’ by Miriam Toews
• ‘A Long Petal of the Sea’ by Isabel Allende
• ‘Landmarks’ by Robert Macfarlane
• ‘The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt’ by Andrea Bobotis
• ‘What’s in a Name’ by Sally Cronin
• ‘The Beekeeper of Aleppo’ by Christy Lefteri
• ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’ by Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe (1700-1799)
• ‘The Last Letter of Istanbul’ by Lucy Foley
• ‘Sea Prayer’ by Khaled Hosseini
• ‘Testaments’ by Margaret Atwood (The Future)
• ‘The Secret Barrister’ by The Secret Barrister
• ‘The Seven Imperfect Rules of Elvira Carr’ by Frances Maynard
• ‘Half a World Away’ by Mike Gayle