Books I Read in 2019

If you want to skip to the good part, here’s my favorites, via Cyn’s Workshop. 

1. Salt Houses by Hala Alya (1/1/19)  
2. Fox 8 by George Saunders  (1/1/19)  
3. Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (1/3/19)
4. Elevation by Stephen King (1/4/19)
5. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara (1/7/19) 
6. Crota by Owl Goingback (1/15/19) 
7. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (1/18/19) 
8. Less by Andrew Sean Greer (1/24/19)
9. Demon Theory by Stephen Graham Jones (1/26/19) 
10. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1/28/19) 
11. True Grit by Charles Portis (1/31/19)
12. One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus (2/2/19)
13. We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix (2/8/19) 
14. Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadwi (2/10/19)
15. Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (2/22/19) 
16. The Haunted Girl by Lisa M. Bradley (2/23/19) 
17. Womanish by Kim McLarin (2/24/19)
18. Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix (2/28/19)  
19. Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday (3/4/19) 
20. Classic Vampire Short Stories (3/7/19) 
21. Dead Man’s Road by Joe R. Lansdale (3/15/19)
22. The Other by Thomas Tyron (3/18/19)
23. Paperback Crush by Gabrielle Moss (3/19/19) 
24. After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones (3/22/19)
25. Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin (3/24/19) 
26. Wild Embers by Nikita Gill (4/1/19)  
27. Renegade Women in Film & TV by Elizabeth Weitzmam (4/1/19) 
28. The Dead Zone by Stephen King (4/3/19)  
29. The Witch Doesn’t Burn in this One by Amanda Lovelace (4/11/19)
30. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (4/16/19)
31. A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin (4/21/19)
32. Gateways to Abomination by Matthew M. Bartlett (5/5/19)
33. The Troop by Nick Cutter (5/14/19) 
34. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (5/18/19) 
35. A Body to Die For by Shannon Iwanski (5/20/19)
36. The Fourth Wall: Season 2 by Mac Boyle (5/24/19) 
37. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (5/24/19) 
38. Tinfoil Crowns by Erin Jones (5/25/19) 
39. Dark and Dangerous Things by M.A. Chiapetta, Donna A. Leahey, Margaret Perdue, and L.A. Smith (5/29/19)
40. The Good House by Tananarive Due (6/10/19) 
41. Treading the Uneven Road by Lorna Brown (6/17/19) 
42. The White Book by Han Kang (6/18/19)
43. Coyote Songs by Gabino Iglesias (6/21/19) 
44. Normal People by Sally Rooney (6/25/19)
45. Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice (7/1/19)
46. Sorry We’re Closed edited by Donna A. Leahey (7/2/19) 
47. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosselini (7/11/19)  
48. Best American Short Stories 2018 edited by Roxane Gay (7/20/19) 
49. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (7/21/19)
50. Forty Stories by Anton Chekhov (7/21/19) 
51. There There by Tommy Orange (7/28/19) 
52. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (7/30/19) 
53. Dark Dreamers on Writing by Stanley Wiater (8/1/19)  
54. Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson (8/7/19)
55. Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria by Carlos Hernandez (8/8/19)
56. Our Wandering by L.M. Brown (8/9/19)
57. Blood Born by Renee Lake (8/14/19) – reviewed at Cyn’s Workshop 
58. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet and Other Stories by Richard Matheson (8/19/19)
59. An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo (8/21/19) 
60. Redeployment by Phil Klay (8/22/19) 
61. Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolaño (8/28/19)
62. Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror compiled by Neil Christopher (9/5/19) reviewed at Cyn’s Workshop 
63. Hatchet Job by Mark Kermode (9/9/19) 
64. The Grip of It by Jac Jemc (9/13/19) 
65. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (9/13/19) 
66. The Apartment by S.L. Grey (9/19/19) 
67. Dark and Dangerous Things II by M.A. Chiapetta, Donna A. Leahey, Margaret Perdue, and L.A. Smith (9/20/19) 
68. Road Work by Stephen King (9/24/19) 
69. When the Sirens Have Faded edited by Ryan C. Bradley (9/30/19) (still unreleased) 
70. Orange World by Karen Russell (10/3/19)  
71. Edgar Allen Poe’s Snifter of Terror (10/6/19) reviewed at Cyn’s Workshop 
72. Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage (10/9/19) 
73. The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson (10/11/19) 
74. The Institute by Stephen King (10/16/19) 
75. Black Mad Wheel by Josh Malerman (10/21/19) 
76. Black Forest by Valérie Mréjen (10/21/19) review at Cyn’s Workshop 
77. We Are Where the Nightmares Go by C. Robert Cargill (10/28/19) 
78. The Essence of Camphor by Naiyer Massud (11/3/19) 
79. The Lowlands by Jhumpa Lahiri (11/7/19)
80. Larose by Louise Erdrich (11/22/19) 
81. The Fourth Wall Season 2 by Mac Boyle (11/27/19)
82. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (12/7/19)
83. The Book of Lamentations by Rosario Castellanos (12/7/19) 
84. Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River by Jung Young Moon (12/19/19) reviewed at Cyn’s Workshop 
85. My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due (12/20/19) 
86. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (12/22/19) 
87. People Still Live in Cashtown Corners by Tony Burgess (12/25/19) 
88. In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (12/27/19)

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