Top Books of 2019
This was such a hard list to narrow down, considering I have read and listened to 386 books this year! When I make my top lists for 2019, I only include books I have never read before, unless noted next to the header. I find it just keeps it a little fairer.
Favourite Books 0f 2019
Top 15 of 2019
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim
Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahurin
Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon
Crown of Feathers by Nicki Pau Preto
Finale by Stephanie Garber
The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Gavis Graves
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
Guardian by Sara Mack
The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Top 15 YA
Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim
Serpent and Dove by Shelby Mahurin
Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon
Crown of Feathers by Nicki Pau Preto
Finale by Stephanie Garber
Love and Luck by Jenna Evans Welch
Thunderhead by Neil Shusterman
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills
Scythe by Neil Shusterman
My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand
Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
This Savage Song by V. E. Schwab
Top 10 Classics Overall
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Complete Poems of Emily Bronte by Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
Non Sense by Edward Lear
Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau
Top 5 New Classics (Never Read Before)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
Nonsense by Edward Lear
Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau
A Woman of No Importance of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Top 5 Historical Fiction
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
Beneath a Scarlett Sky by Mark T. Sullivan
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
Dear Maude by Denise Liebig
Top 5 Non-Fiction:
The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard
Love, Lucy by Lucille Ball
Educated by Tara Westover
Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Top 10 Fiction
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
The Girl He Used to Know by Tracey Gavis Graves
Guardian by Sara Mack
The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Wisteria Witches by Angela Pepper
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Weight of Ink by Rachel Kadish
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon
Honourable Mentions:
A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz
Einstein’s Compass by Grace Allison Blair
Pumpkin Heads by Rainbow Rowell
The Wishing Stone Series by Lorana Hoopes
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Author Conan Doyle
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen by Deborah Hopkinson
Air and Ash by Alex Lidell
Brewer’s Revenge by James Keffer
Pepped Up by Ali Dean
Better Than First by Kari Trumbo
Ashes From A Burning Corpse by Noel Hyne
Four Dead Queens by Astrid Scholte
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry
Worlds of Ink and Shadow by Lena Coakley
P.S. I Like You by Kasie West
Winter by Marissa Meyer
The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley
Code Girls by Liza Mundy
Leonardo DaVinci by Walter Isaacson
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
