My Favorite Books of 2019

I need books in my life like I need air. Reading provides me with much needed sanity and inspiration. I truly cannot imagine life without it.

My goal for 2019 was to read 50 books, but I slightly missed my goal. This was most certainly due to listening to podcasts during what would otherwise be reading time. Fortunately, I did come very close to my goal with 46 completed books. Better yet, I both started and ended the year with two of my favorite books of 2019.

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  My Favorite Books of 2019 (Plus the Full List of 46 Books Read in 2019!)

My first book of the year was a novel - "All the Ugly and Wonderful Things" by Bryn Greenwood. This book challenged the boundaries of what most people may consider acceptable love. It will push you through discomfort and open your mind to thinking about love in an expanded way.

My last books of the year was also a fictional novel which is surprising since the majority of the books I read tend to be memoir. "The Giver of Stars" by Jojo Moyes was the kind of book where I would have given anything to stay close to the characters and have the book never end. This is a powerful story of five truly remarkable women who will both inspire you and break your heart. I would recommend this book to every single one of my girlfriends.

To fill in all of the books in between, here is my complete list of the 46 books I read in the order I read them in 2019. I read these books through a variety of formats including audiobooks, ebooks, and traditional paperback or hardcover books. My top twelve books of the year are bolded within the list and are also pictured below.

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  My Favorite Books of 2019

1. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
2. Eleanor Olpihant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
3. The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
4. Becoming by Michelle Obama
5. Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love by Dani Shapiro
6. Flat Broke with Two Goats: A Memoir of Appalachia by Jennifer McGaha
7. The Rules of Inheritance: A Memoir by Claire Bidwell Smith
8. Why Not Me? By Mindy Kaling
9. Well: Healing Our Beautiful, Broken World from a Hospital in West Africa by Sarah Thebarge 
10. Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap by Judy Goldman 
11. Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies about Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be by Rachel Hollis
12. The Storyteller’s Secret by Sejal Badani
13. The Light of the World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander
14. After You by Jojo Moyes
15. Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
16. Still Me by Jojo Moyes
17. No Happy Endings: A Memoir by Nora McInerny
18. Two by Two by Nicholas Sparks
19. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
20. The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle
21. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
22. Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain 
23. Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain
24. Running Home: A Memoir by Katie Arnold
25. The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray
26. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
27. The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain
28. Pretending to Dance by Diane Chamberlain 
29. The Midwife’s Confession by Diane Chamberlain
30. The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After by Julie Yip-Williams 
31. The Stolen Marriage by Diane Chamberlain 
32. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
33. It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario 
34. All the Lost Things by Michelle Sacks
35. Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir by Jayson Greene
36. Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
37. On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard by Jennifer Pastiloff
38. To Love and Let Go: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Gratitude by Rachel Brathen
39. The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
40. I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O’Farrell
41. Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family by Mitch Albom 
42. Midnight Son by James Dommek Jr.
43. From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke
44. Buried Deep by Margot Hunt 
45. The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders
46. The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

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Comment below and share your favorite reads of 2019! I'd also love to hear what you thought of any of the books on this list. Thanks!