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