Books I've Read: Q4 2019
One of my piles of books awaiting giveaway. Lausanne, Switzerland. December 27, 2019.
A list of books I chewed through in the fourth quarter of 2019, in rough chronological order:
Spring, by Ali Smith
The Dark Flood Rises, by Margaret Drabble
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead
How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well, by Catherine Wilson
Waiting for Bojangles, by Olivier Bourdeaut
Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life, by Rory Sutherland
There There, by Tommy Orange
When They Call You a Terrorist, by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
The Overstory, by Richard Powers
From the Shadows, by Juan Jose Millas
Optic Nerve, by Maria Gainza
In Times of Fading Light, by Eugen Ruge
Ducks, Newburyport, by Lucy Ellmann
Mostly Dead Things, by Kristen Arnett
As in the past, I’ve bolded the books that really wowed me and that I would recommend highly.
If you want to review everything I’ve read this year, you can find my previous quarters’ lists here:
If you’ve read any of these, let me know. And stay tuned for a review of the best of the best books I read in 2019, coming up within the week.