Here are all the books I read this year. I’m taking it a bit easier this year and haven’t signed up for any challenges. Instead I’m going to be focussing on my Read the World Project and trying to get my physical TBR down a fair bit. You can find out more about what I’m reading on my Twitter and Goodreads.

Without further ado, here’s what I read in 2019! Any titles with asterisks are rereads and if it has a link, that goes to my review.

January:
– Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph – Yusra Mardini
– The Exact Opposite of Okay – Laura Steven
– My Brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
– Under the Tripoli Sky – Kamal Ben Hameda
– Every Man Is A Race – Mia Couto

February:
– Made You Up – Francesca Zappia
– The Memory of Love – Aminatta Forna
– Allah is not Obliged – Ahmadou Kourouma
– Safe as Houses – Simone van der Vlugt
– Let’s Talk About Love – Claire Kann
– Crimson – Niviaq Korneliussen

March:
– Burning Cities – Kai Aareleid
– Soviet Milk – Nora Ikstena
– A Fortune Foretold – Agneta Pleijel
– Leah on the Offbeat – Becky Albertalli
– Secret Son – Laila Lalami
– Letters from Burma – Aung San Suu Kyi
– Children of Blood and Bone – Tomi Adeyemi

April:
– Old Man Hawkeye Vol. 1: An Eye for an Eye – Ethan Sacks, Marco Checchetto and Andres Mossa
– Old Man Hawkeye Vol. 2: The Whole World Blind – Ethan Sacks, Marco Checchetto, Francesco Mobili and Ibraim Roberson
– Augstown – Kei Miller
– Genuine Fraud – E. Lockhart
– Slaughterhouse 5 – Kurt Vonnegut
– The Angel’s Game – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
– The Red Beach Hut – Lynn Michell

May:
– Trout, Belly Up – Rodrigo Fuentes
– Becoming – Michelle Obama
– The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind – William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealeb
– Frankenstein in Baghdad – Ahmed Saadawi

June:
– A Girl Called Shameless – Laura Steven
– The Dry – Jane Harper
– The Howling Miller – Arto Paasilinna
– Red Sister – Mark Lawrence
– Maybe This Time – Alois Hotschnig
– Devoted – Jennifer Mathieu
– Raised from the Ground – José Saramago
– All We Could Have Been – T.E. Carter
– Mere Chances – Veronica Simoniti
– Lies We Tell Ourselves – Robin Talley
– Marriage of a Thousand Lies – SJ Sindu
– The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Tales from Alagaësia – Christopher Paolini

July:
– Northern Lights – Phillip Pullman*
– This Time Will Be Different – Misa Sugiura
– The Subtle Knife – Phillip Pullman*
– The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet – Becky Chambers

August:
– This Savage Song – Victoria Schwab
– Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman – Malidoma Patrice Somé
– Forest of a Thousand Lanterns – Julie C. Dao
– Flashfall – Jenny Moyer
– A Blade So Black – L.L. McKinney
– Hawkeye Vol. 5: All-New Hawkeye – Jeff Lemire and Ramón Pérez*
– The Runaway Jury – John Grisham
– Hawkeye Vol. 6: Hawkeyes – Jeff Lemire and Ramón Pérez
– Birthday – Meredith Russo
– The Amber Spyglass – Phillip Pullman*
– African Titanics – Abu Bakr Khaal

September:
– Celestial Bodies – Jokah Alharthi
– Breath, Eyes, Memory – Edwidge Danticat
– Roger Federer & Rafael Nadal: The Lives and Careers of Two Tennis Legends – Sebastián Fest
– Internment – Samira Ahmed
– Burn for Burn – Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian

October:
– Nemesis – Brendan Reichs
– Shadows on the Tundra – Dalia Grinkevičiūtė
– The Murder Complex – Lindsay Cummings
– Sherwood – Megan Spooner

November:
– The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After – Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Wiel
– Fear and His Servant – Mirjana Novaković
– The Polished Hoe – Austin Clarke

December:
– In the Distance with You – Carla Guelfenbein
– The Tongue’s Blood Does Not Run Dry – Assia Djebar
– The Book of Ebenezer Le Page – G.B. Edwards
– The Good Muslim – Tahmima Anam

Currently reading:
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Books read: 72/52
Books reviewed: 46/26