The Reads of 2019

A listing of what I've read in 2019.

I've got a couple going, one of them a re-read of Stephen King's massive It, which unless I decided to lay out of work, I won't finish for a while.  The other is a history of Walt Disney World on the Kindle.  I likewise probably won't finish it until 2020, so I'll count them there.

It breaks down almost half and half as to what were listened to as audiobooks, and what were read either as physical copies or e-books.  

Lots of good, and a couple of stinkers.  Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything that I started but didn't finish this year, though I'm sure there were a couple.  Month by month....

January

Best in Show:  the Films of Christopher Guest and Company, by John Kenneth Muir

One Summer: America, 1927,  by Bill Bryson

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring,    by J.R.R. Tolkien

Dark Tower:  the Gunslinger, by Stephen King

Things We Lost in the Fire,   by Mariana Enriquez

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: a Sortabiography,  by Eric Idle

February

The Troop,  by Nick Cutter

Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson

Hounded, by Kevin Hearne

This Dark Chest of Wonders: 40 Years of The Stand, by Andy Burns

Big Fella:  Babe Ruth and the World he Created, by Jane Leavy

March

The Coen Brothers:  This Book Really Ties the Movies Together, by Adam Nayman

Christine,  by Stephen King

Adrian's Undead Diary: Dark Recollections, by Chris Philbrook

The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood

The Elephant of Surprise, by Joe R. Lansdale

April

Kenichi Zenimura:  Japanese American Baseball Pioneer, by Bill Staples, Jr.

Star Wars:  Thrawn,   by Timothy Zahn

The Million Dollar Policeman, by John Swartzwelder

Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin

Wounds:  Six Stories from the Border of Hell,   by Nathan Ballingrud

May

What Stands in a Storm:  Three Days in the Worst Superstorm to Hit the South's Tornado Alley,  by Kim Cross

Ronan Boyle and the Bridge of Riddles, by Thomas Lennon

Pet Sematary, by Stephen King

The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman

The Disaster Artist:  My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, by Greg Sestero

North American Lake Monsters, by Nathan Ballingrud

June

Time's Children, by D.B. Jackson

Lucky Town, by Peter Vonder Haar

The British are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, by Rick Atkinson

The Friends of Eddie Coyle, by George V. Higgins

The Hum and the Shiver, by Alex Bledsoe

July

Chernobyl:  The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe, by Serhii Plokhy

The Cycle of the Werewolf, by Stephen King

Growing Things, and Other Stories, by Paul Tremblay

The Toll, by Cherie Priest

Wild and Crazy Guys, by Nick de Semlyen

August

Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

The United States of Beer, by Dane Huckelbridge

The Talisman, by Stephen King & Peter Straub

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling

The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth

September

The Trail of Lightning, by Rebecca Roanhorse

The Godfather, by Mario Puzo

Into the Raging Sea:  33 Mariners, One Megastorm and the Sinking of El Faro, by Rebecca Slade

Thinner, by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)

For the Good of the Game, by Bud Selig with Phil Rogers

October

Hinge Factor:  How Chance and Stupidity have Changed History, by Erik Durschmied

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, by Claire North

Star Wars: Black Spire   by Delilah S. Dawson

November

Skeleton Crew, by Stephen King

The Ice Harvest, by Scott Phillips

Where Oblivion Lives, by T. Frohock

Call Me God: The Untold Story of the DC Sniper Investigation, by Jim Clemente, Tim Clemente, et al.

December

Agent to the Stars, by John Scalzi

Still Life, by Louise Penny

A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens

No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy