A list of books I chewed through in the third quarter of 2019, in rough chronological order.

1. LaRose, by Louise Erdrich

2. The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck

3. French Exit, by Patrick deWitt

4. A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles

5. The Plague, by Albert Camus

6. Black Water, by Louise Doughty

7. Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi

8. The Fame Lunches, by Daphne Merkin

9. The Little Red Chairs, by Edna O’Brien

10. The North Water, by Ian McGuire

11. A Walking Life: Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time, by Antonia Malchik

12. Do Not Say We Have Nothing, by Madeleine Thien

13. Range, by David Epstein

14. We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

15. Jesus’ Son, by Denis Johnson

16. Heavy, by Kiese Laymon

17. Supermarket, by Bobby Hall

18. The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London, by Christopher Skaife

19. Mirror, Shoulder, Signal, by Dorthe Nors

20. Let’s Pretend this Never Happened, by Jenny Lawson

21. The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai

22. Winter, by Ali Smith

The last two books saved me. In past quarterly lists—see my Q1 list and my Q2 list—I’ve bolded the books I recommend each highly. This quarter, though I read avidly and enjoyed some of the books immensely, I didn’t have any that really wowed me until I read the last two, at the very tail end of the month. Whew.

If you’ve read any of these, let me know! And if you’d like to see what I read in the following quarter, check my Q4 2019 books list.