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Books Read in 2019

January

  • The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co #1) by Jonathan Stroud (5 stars)

  • The Whispering Skull (Lockwood & Co #2) by Jonathan Stroud (5 stars)

  • City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake #1) by Victoria Schwab (5 stars)

  • The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (4 stars)

  • The Fairy-Tale Detectives (The Sisters Grimm #1) by Michael Buckley

  • The Shrunken Head (The Curiosity House #1) by Lauren Oliver and H.C. Chester (5 stars)

  • Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deidre Cooper Owens (4 stars)

  • Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor #1) by Jessica Townsend (5 stars)

  • The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls by Claire Legrand (4 stars)

 

February

  • Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer #1) by Laini Taylor (5 stars)

  • The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club #1) by Theodora Goss (5 stars)

  • The Unusual Suspects (The Sisters Grimm #2) by Michael Buckley (5 stars)

  • European Travel for the Monstrous Gentlewoman (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club #2) by Theodora Goss (5 stars)

  • Brave Chef Brianna Vol. 1 by Sam Sykes (5 stars)

  • The Bone Season (The Bone Season #1) by Samantha Shannon (5 stars)

  • Us by Curtis Wiklun (4 stars)

  • Aru Shah and the End of Time (The Pandava Quartet #1) by Roshai Chokshi (5 stars)

  • The Mother-Daughter Book Club (The Mother-Daughter Book Club #1) by Heather Vogel-Fredrick (5 stars)

  • The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #1) by Rick Riordan (5 stars)

 

March

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April

  • The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) by N.K. Jeminsin (5 stars)

  • An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (An Absolutely Remarkable Thing #1) by Hank Green (4 stars)

  • Truly Devious (Truly Devious #1) by Maureen Johnson (5 stars)

  • Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong by Paul A. Offit (5 stars)

  • The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding (Prosper Redding #1) by Alexandra Bracken (4 stars)

  • Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger (3 stars)

  • Storm Front by John Sandford (4 stars)

  • A Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier (5 stars)

  • Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (4 stars)

  • Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them by Jennifer Wright (5 stars)

  • The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2) by Maureen Johnson (5 stars)

  • Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang (5 stars) 

  • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (4 stars)

  • The Hollow Boy (Lockwood & Co #3) by Jonathan Stroud (5 stars)

  • The Creeping Shadow (Lockwood & Co #4) by Jonathan Stroud (5 stars)

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May

  • Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer (4 stars)

  • The Empty Grave (Lockwood & Co #5) by Jonathan Stroud (5 stars)

  • Illuminae (The Illuminae Files #1) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (5 stars)

  • Gemina (The Illuminae Files #2) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (5 stars)

 

June

  • The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #1) by Michael Scott (4 stars)

  • Dragon Pearl by Yoon Ha Lee (5 stars)

  • Skyward (Skyward #1) by Brandon Sanderson (5 stars)

  • Girls on the Verge by Sharon Biggs Waller (5 stars)

  • Impyrium (Impyrium #1) by Henry H. Neff (5 stars)

  • Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha #1) by Tomi Adeyemi (5 stars)

  • Rosemarked (Rosemarked #1) by Livia Blackburne (4 stars)

  • All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater (5 stars)

  • Find Me (Find Me #1) by Romily Bernard (3 stars)

  • When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore (5 stars)

  • Nice Try, Jane Sinner by Lianne Oelke (4 stars)

  • Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark (5 stars)

  • The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang (5 stars)

  • The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street (The Vanderbeekers #1) by Karina Yan Glaser (5 stars)

  • I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara (5 stars) 

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July

  • Save the Date by Morgan Matson (5 stars)

  • Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor #2) by Jessica Townsend (5 stars)

  • Internment by Samira Ahmed (4 stars)

  • The Truth Lies Here by Lindsey Klingele (4 stars)

  • The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle #1) by Maggie Stiefvater (5 stars)

  • Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (5 stars)

  • Check, Please! Book 1: # Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu (5 stars)

  • The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe by Ally Condie (3 stars)

  • Emma in the Night by Wendy Walker (4 stars)

  • The Invisible Library (The Invisible Library #1) by Genvieve Cogman (5 stars)

  • Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson (4 stars)

  • The Boneless Mercies by April Genvieve Tucholke (5 stars)

  • Aurora Rising (The Aurora Cycle #1) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (5 stars)

  • Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand (4 stars)

  • Wicked Saints (Something Dark and Holy #1) by Emily A. Duncan (4 stars)

  • Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds (4 stars)

  • The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden (The Vanderbeekers #2) by Karina Yan Glaser (5 stars)

  • The Naturals (The Naturals #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (5 stars) 

  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid (5 stars)

  • Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders by Christopher Goffard (4 stars)

  • Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement by Nadya Okamoto (4 stars)

 

August

  • The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule (5 stars)

  • Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead (Claire DeWitt Mysteries #1) by Sara Gran (4 stars)

  • Phantom Evil (Krewe of Hunters #1) by Heather Graham (3 stars)

  • The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin (5 stars)

 

September

  • The Book of Lies by Mary Horlock (3 stars)

  • Hello Girls by Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry (4 stars)

  • Persuasion by Jane Austen (5 stars)

  • The Detective's Assistant by Kate Hannigan (5 stars)

  • The Masked City (The Invisible Library #2) by Genevieve Cogman (5 stars)

  • Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King #1) by Tricia Levenseller (5 stars)

  • Heart of Iron (Heart of Iron #1) by Ashley Poston (4 stars)

  • Not Your Sidekick (Sidekick Squad #1) by C.B. Lee (4 stars)

  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (3.5 stars)

  • The Crooked Sixpence (The Uncommoners #1) by Jennifer Bell (5 stars)

  • My Lady's Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris (3 stars)

  • House of Furies (House of Furies #1) by Madeleine Roux (4 stars)

  • Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde (5 stars)

 

October

  • Villette by Charlotte Brontë (4 stars)

  • Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta #1) by Patricia Cornwell (4 stars)

  • Don't Let Go by Harlan Coben (3 stars)

  • Still Missing by Chevy Stevens (4 stars) 

  • Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta #2) by Patricia Cornwell (4 stars)

  • All that Remains (Kay Scarpetta #3) by Patricia Cornwell (4 stars)

  • Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta #4) by Patricia Cornwell (4 stars)

  • Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges #1) by Stephen King (5 stars) 

  • The Outsider (Holly Gibney #1) by Stephen King (5 stars) 

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