2019 Year In Review: Look At How Many Books I Read and Be Impressed Instead of Assuming It Was a Form of Escapism

It was totally a form of escapism, but there are far worse ways to spend one's time.  There's some highbrow, some lowbrow, a healthy mix of fiction and nonfiction.  My favorite nonfiction title was probably Spying on the South, and all of the Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante topped my fiction list.  I was going to link and annotate each book, but ain't nobody got time for that.

1. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
2. How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
3. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
4. Delancey by Molly Wizenberg
5. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
6. Everything's Trash But It's Okay by Phoebe Robinson
7. Revenge of the Lawn and Other Stories by Richard Brautigan
8. Kids These Days by Malcolm Harris
9. Hippie by Paulo Coelho
10. My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Otessa Moshfegh
11. A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
12. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
13. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
14. I'll be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
15. This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Phillips
16. Life Will Be the Death of Me by Chelsea Handler
17. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
18. Shrill by Lindy West
19. I'm Fine and Other Lies by Whitney Cummings
20. A Moveable Feast ed. by Lonely Planet (not the Hemingway book, duh)
21. Feminasty by Erin Gibson
22. The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
23. We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Sam Irby
24. You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis Sittenfeld
25. Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
26. Spying on the South by Tony Horwitz
27. No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
28. Homeland by Sam Lipsyte
29. Howard Stern Comes Again by Howard Stern
30. You Know You Want This by Kristen Roupenian
31. Maid by Stephanie Land
32. Hot Young Widows Club by Nora McInerney
33. Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl
34. 10 Years A Nomad by Matthew Kepnes
35. Amsterdam by Ian McEwen
36. Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
37. Sick by Porochista Khakpour
38. Flow: A cultural story of menstruation by Elissa Stein and Susan Kim
39. Where We Come From by Oscar Casares
40. Brain on Fire by Susana Cahalan
41. Inland by Tea Obreht
42. Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
43. Guts by Raina Telgemeier/Stargazer by Jen Wang/Best Friends by Shannon Hale (counting these three middle grade graphic novels as one, because I read them each in one sitting at work, but they were great!)
44. Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
45. Chances Are by Richard Russo
46. Doxology by Nell Zink
47. There There by Tommy Orange
48. Because Internet by Gretchen McCullough
49. Short Cuts by Raymond Carver
50. Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
51. High School by Tegan and Sara
52. Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
53. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
54. The Odd Woman and the City by Vivian Gornick
55. Grief is a Thing With Feathers by Max Porter
56. The Trip to Echo Spring:  On writers and drinking by Olivia Laing
57. Grand Union by Zadie Smith*
58. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett*

In Progress:

Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
The Overstory by Richard Powers*

Started but didn't finish:

The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu

Milkman by Anna Burns

Sick in the Head by Judd Apatow

Edit:  Starred * titles updated/added on 12/29/19