Tuesday, December 31, 2019

2019 Year of Books: Fiction

2019 FICTION 
Elizabeth Acevedo
With the Fire on High (audiobook via Hoopla)


Poppy Alexander
25 Days 'til Christmas (audiobook via Hoopla)

Kate Atkinson
Transcription (audiobook via Libby)

Jane Austen
Sanditon (audiobook via Hoopla)
The Watsons (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Beryl Bainbridge
The Bottle Factory Outing (ebook via Kindle Store)

Chandler Baker
The Whisper Network (audiobook via Audible)

Natalie Barelli
The Housekeeper (audiobook via Hoopla)

Kimberly Belle
Dear Wife (audiobook via Hoopla)

Robin Benway
Far from the Tree (ebook via Kindle Store) 

Lou Berney
November Road (audiobook via Hoopla)


Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Fleishman Is in Trouble (audiobook via Audible)

Anna Burns
Milkman (audiobook via Hoopla)

Emma Burstall
A Cornish Secret (Tremarnock #4) (audiobook via Hoopla)

Julie Buxbaum
Hope and Other Punchlines (library book)  

Robyn Carr
Virgin River (audiobook via Audible)
Shelter Mountain (audiobook via Audible)

Katherine Center
Things You Save in a Fire (hardcover) 

Mary H.K. Choi
Permanent Record (ebook via Libby)

Jenny Colgan
Christmas at Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop (audiobook via Hoopla)
The Bookshop on the Shore (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Tara Conklin 
The Last Romantics (audiobook via Hoopla)

Catherine Cookson
Katie Mulholland (audiobook via Audible)

Blake Crouch
Recursion (audiobook via Libby)

Rosie Curtis
We Met in December (audiobook via Hoopla)

Paula Daly
Clear My Name (audiobook via Hoopla)

Jen DeLuca
Well Met (hardcover)

Sarah Dessen
The Rest of the Story (audiobook via Libby)

Matthew Dicks
Twenty-one Truths About Love (library book)

Samantha Downing
My Lovely Wife (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Evie Dunmore
Bringing Down the Duke (hardcover)

Helen Ellis
Southern Lady Code (library book) 

Lucy Foley
The Hunting Party (audiobook via Audible)

Tana French
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad #1) (audiobook via Libby)
The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad #2) (audiobook via Libby)
Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad #3) (audiobook via Libby)

Elizabeth Gaskell
Wives and Daughters (audiobook via Hoopla)
North and South (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Laurie Gelman
You've Been Volunteered: A Class Mom Novel (library book) 

Tracey Garvis Graves
The Girl He Used to Know (audiobook via Audible)

Anne Griffin
When All Is Said (audiobook via Audible)

Jasmine Guillory
The Wedding Party (The Wedding Date #3) (library book)
Royal Holiday (The Wedding Date #4) (library book)

Cynthia Hand
The Afterlife of Holly Chase (audiobook via Hoopla)

Jane Harper
The Lost Man (audiobook via Audible)

Rachel Hawkins
Prince Charming (ebook via Kindle Store)

Felicity Hayes-McCoy
The Mistletoe Matchmaker (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Jane Healey
The Saturday Evening Girls Club (audiobook via Audible) 

Amy Hempel
Sing to It: New Stories (audiobook via Libby)

Greer Hendricks
The Wife Between Us (audiobook via Hoopla)

Sally Hepworth
The Mother-in-Law (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Kristan Higgins
Life and Other Inconveniences (paperback)


Elin Hilderbrand
What Happens in Paradise (hardcover)
Summer People (paperback)
Summer of '69 (hardcover)

Linda Holmes
Evvie Drake Starts Over (library book)

Helen Hoang
The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient #2) (audiobook via Hoopla)


Catherine Isaac
You Me Everything (audiobook via Audible)

Balli Kaur Jaswal
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Lisa Jewell
Roommates Wanted (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Lana Wood Johnson
Technically, You Started It (library book) 

Jessica Francis Kane
Rules for Visiting (library book)


Mary Beth Keane
Ask Again, Yes (audiobook via Audible)

Brigid Kemmerer
Letters to the Lost (ebook via Kindle Store)
Call It What You Want (library book)

John Kenney
Talk to Me (audiobook via Audible)

Sabina Khan
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana-Ali (audiobook via Hoopla)

Stephen King
The Colorado Kid (library book)

Sophie Kinsella
Christmas Shopaholic (library book)

Gordon Korman
Restart (paperback)

Jean Kwok
Searching for Sylvie Lee (audiobook) 

Julie Langsdorf
White Elephant (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Christina Lauren
Twice in a Blue Moon (library book) 
The Unhoneymooners (library book)
Love and Other Words (ebook via Libby)
My Favorite Half-Night Stand (ebook via Libby)
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating (audiobook via Libby)

Min Jin Lee
Pachinko (audiobook via Libby)  

Elinor Lipman
Good Riddance (library book)

Claire Lombardo
The Most Fun We Ever Had (audiobook via Audible)

Julia MacDonnell
Mimi Malloy, At Last!  (hardcover)

Karen M. McManus
Two Can Keep A Secret (audiobook via Libby) 

Dervla McTiernan
The Scholar (Cormac Reilly #2) (audiobook via Audible) 

Lauren Mechling
How Could She (library book) 

Emma Mills
This Adventure Ends (ebook via Kindle Store)

Famous in a Small Town (library book)
Foolish Hearts (ebook via Libby)

Denise Mina
Conviction (audiobook via Audible)

Fatima Farheen Mirza
A Place for Us (audiobook via Libby)

L.M. Montgomery
The Blue Castle* (audiobook via Hoopla)
Christmas with Anne and Other Holiday Stories (audiobook via Hoopla)

Meg Mitchell Moore
The Islanders (hardcover) 

Yukiko Motoya
The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories (ebook via Kindle Store) 

Loretta Nyhan
All the Good Parts (ebook via Kindle)


Beth O'Leary
The Flatshare (library book)


Camille Pagan
I'm Fine and Neither Are You (ebook via Kindle Store)

Liza Palmer
The Nobodies  (library book)

Lucy Parker
Act Like It (London Celebrities #1) (ebook via Kindle Store)
Pretty Face (London Celebrities #2) (ebook via Kindle Store)

Ann Patchett
The Dutch House (audiobook via Audible)

A.J. Pearce
Dear Mrs. Bird (audiobook via Libby) 

Louise Penny
Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Gamache #14, audiobook via Libby)
A Better Man (Chief Inspector Gamache #15, audiobook via Audible)

Rosamunde Pilcher
September (audiobook via Hoopla) 
Voices in the Summer (audiobook via Hoopla)

Sylvia Plath
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom (library book) 

Katherine Reay
The Printed Letter Bookshop (audiobook via Hoopla)

Penny Reid
Truth or Beard (Winston Brothers #1) (audiobook via Hoopla)
Grin and Beard It (Winston Brothers #2) (audiobook via Hoopla)
Beard Science (Winston Brothers #3) (audiobook via Hoopla)
Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers #4) (audiobook via Hoopla)
Dr. Strange Beard (Winston Brothers #5) (audiobook via Hoopla)
Bear with Me (Winston Brothers #6) (audiobook via Hoopla)


Taylor Jenkins Reid
Evidence of the Affair (ebook via Kindle Store) 
Daisy Jones & The Six (hardcover)


Kim Michele Richardson
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Andrew Ridker
The Altruists (audiobook via Audible)

Barbara Robinson
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever* (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Sally Rooney
Normal People (hardcover)

Heather Rose
The Museum of Modern Love (audiobook via Hoopla)

Rainbow Rowell
Pumpkinheads (paperback)

Steven Rowley
The Editor (audiobook via Libby)

Madhuri Shekar
Evil Eye (audiobook via Audible)

Cathleen Schine
They May Not Mean To, But They Do (ebook via Kindle Store)

Curtis Sittenfeld
Atomic Marriage (audiobook via Audible)

Gregory Blake Smith
The Maze at Windermere (audiobook via Audible)

Sarah Elaine Smith
Marilou is Everywhere (library book)

D.E. Stevenson
Spring Magic (ebook via Kindle Store)

Nina Stibbe
Reasons to Be Cheerful (library book)

Elizabeth Strout
Olive, Again (audiobook via Audible)

Donna Tartt
The Secret History (audiobook via Libby) 

Angie Thomas
The Hate U Give (hardcover)
On the Come Up (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Jean Thompson
She Poured Out Her Heart (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Sally Thorne
99 Percent Mine (library book)

Tony Tulathimutte
Private Citizens (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Richard Van Camp
The Lesser Blessed (ebook via Kindle Store)

Elizabeth Von Arnim
The Enchanted April* (public domain ebook via Kindle Store)

Ocean Vuong
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (audiobook via Libby) 

Karen Thompson Walker
The Dreamers (ebook via Libby)

Cara Wall
The Dearly Beloved (audiobook via Audible)

Kathy Wang
Family Trust (audiobook via Libby)

Abbi Waxman
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill (audiobook via Libby)

Kevin Wilson
Nothing to See Here (audiobook via Audible) 

Kerry Winfrey
Waiting for Tom Hanks (library book)


Jacqueline Woodson
Red at the Bone (paperback) 

Jeff Winterhart
Other People: Days of the Bagnold Summer & Driving Short Distances (library book)

David Yoon
Frankly in Love (audiobook via Libby)

2019 Year of Books: Memoirs, Essays & Other Non-Fiction


2019 MEMOIRS, ESSAYS, and OTHER NON-FICTION
Karen Abbott
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America (audiobook via Libby)

Nancy Stearns Bercaw
Dryland: One Woman's Swim to Sobriety (ebook via Kindle Store)


Elizabeth Berg
Still Happy: Includes "The Book of Homer" (library book)

Rohit Bhargava
Always Eat Left Handed: 15 Surprising Secrets for Killing It At Work And In Real Life (audiobook via Hoopla)

Gary John Bishop
Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Jamie Brickhouse
Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Vera Brosgol
Be Prepared (paperback)

 

Bryan Burrough
The Demon Next Door (audiobook via Audible)

Candace Bushnell
Is There Still Sex in the City? (audiobook via Hoopla) 


Makenzie Campbell
2am Thoughts (library book)

John Carreyrou
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (audiobook via Audible) 

Marla Cilley
The CHAOS Cure: Clean Your House and Calm Your Soul in 15 Minutes (library book)

Catherine Cookson
Before I Go (ebook via Kindle Store)

Ruth Cowen
Elizabeth II: Life of a Monarch (audiobook via Audible) 


Molly Erdman
Catalog Living at Its Most Absurd: Decorating Takes (Wicker) Balls (library book)

Rachel Held Evans
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church (audiobook via Hoopla)

Huda Fahmy
Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab (library book)

Allison Fallon
Indestructible: Leveraging Your Broken Heart to Become a Force of Love & Change in the World (ebook via Kindle Store)

Ronan Farrow
Catch and Kill:  Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (audiobook via Audible)

Jeannie Gaffigan
When Life Gives You Pears: The Healing Power of Family, Faith, and Funny People (audiobook via Audible)

Neil Gaiman
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World (library book)

Malcolm Gladwell
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (audiobook via Libby)

John Glynn
Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer (hardcover)

Lori Gottlieb
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (audiobook via Audible) 


Julie Heldman
Driven: A Daughter's Odyssey (audiobook via Audible)
 
Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
Sounds Like Titanic (audiobook via Audible) 

Rachel Hollis
Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals (audiobook via Hoopla)

Jessica Hopper
Night Moves (library book)

Mira Jacob
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations (library book) 

Abbi Jacobson
I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff (audiobook via Libby) 
 
Patrick Radden Keefe
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (audiobook via Audible) 

Greg King
Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders (audiobook via Hoopla)

Austin Kleon
Newspaper Blackout (ebook via Hoopla)

Lucy Knisley
Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride (library book)
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos (library book)

Stephanie Land
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (audiobook via Libby)

Leon Logothetis
Go Be Kind: 28 1/2 Adventures Guaranteed to Make You Happier (library book)
 

Belinda Luscombe
Marriageology: The Art and Science of Staying Together (audiobook via Audible)

Greg McKeown
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (ebook via Kindle store)

Michelle McNamara
 I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman' Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (audiobook via Libby)

Gabrielle Moss
Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction (library book)

Ben and Erin Napier
Make Something Good Today (library book)

Meaghan O'Connell
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready (ebook via Libby)

Ryan O'Connell
I'm Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves to Get through Our Twenties (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Nnedi Okorafor
Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected (library book)

Jessica Pan
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously (ebook via Hoopla)

Brooks Palmer
Clutter Busting: Letting Go of What's Holding You Back (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Mary Laura Philpott
I Miss You When I Blink: Essays (library book)

Catherine Price
How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life (library book)

Carole Radziwill
What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love (audiobook via Hoopla)

Ruth Reichl
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir (audiobook via Libby)

Marc Reklau
The Life-Changing Power of Gratitude: 7 Simple Exercises that will Change Your Life for the Better (audiobook via Hoopla) 

Jason Reynolds
For Every One (paperback)

Gretchen Rubin
Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness (library book)

Angela Santomero
Radical Kindness: The Life-Changing Power of Giving and Receiving (audiobook via Hoopla)


Kathryn Scanlan
Aug 9 - Fog (library book)

David Sedaris
Me Talk Pretty One Day* (audiobook via Hoopla)
Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 (audiobook via Libby)

Dani Shapiro
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love (ebook via Kindle Store)

Jan Smith
Killer by Nature (audiobook via Audible) 

Myquillyn Smith
Cozy Minimalist Home: More Style, Less Stuff  (ebook via Kindle Store) 

Patti Smith
Just Kids (audiobook via Hoopla) 
 
Grant Snider
The Shape of Ideas: An Illustrated Exploration of Creativity (library book)

Nina Stibbe
An Almost Perfect Christmas 

Jia Tolentino
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (audiobook via Libby)

Adrian Tomine
Scenes from an Impending Marriage (library book)

Debbie Tung
Book Love (hardcover)

Judith Viorst
Nearing Ninety: And Other Comedies of Late Life (library book)

Jen Waite
A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal (ebook via Kindle Store)

Florence Williams
The 3-Day Effect (audiobook via Audible) 
 
Rachel DeLoache Williams
My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress (hardcover)



 
An (*) indicates a reread.  All ebooks are purchased on sale via the Kindle Store or checked out from the e-offerings of the Elmhurst Public Library.  All audiobooks are from Audible.com or the Elmhurst Public Library's e-offerings (Hoopla and Libby Apps).