Books Read in 2019
Sorted in reverse chronological order
- Primitive Technology: A Survivalist's Guide to Building Tools, Shelters, and More in the Wild by John Plant
- Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer
- Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
- Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac
- Letters from an Astrophysicist by Neil deGrasse Tyson
- The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
- Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
- Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang
- Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
- We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
- Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
- Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Those Who Wander: America's Street Kids by Vivian Ho
- American Sketches: Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane by Walter Isaacson
- The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell
- Superfoods: The Healthiest Foods on the Planet by Tonia Reinhard
- Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
- The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers by Amy Hollingsworth
- Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant
- The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump by Michiko Kakutani
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson
- Overview: A New Perspective on Earth by Benjamin Grant
- Origin by Dan Brown
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David J. Epstein
- The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way by Bill Bryson
- 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
- The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries from A Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
- A Well-Read Woman by Kate Stewart
- Island Time: An Illustrated History of St. Simons Island, Georgia by Jingle Davis
- Dispatches by Michael Herr
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
- St. Simons Island: A Summary of Its History by R. Edwin Green
- The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
- The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
- Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler
- A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon
- The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
- The Death of Expertise by Thomas M. Nichols
- Warlight: A Novel by Michael Ondaatje
- The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
- Rocket Boys by Homer Hickham
- Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
- The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic by Mark R. Levin
- Figuring by Maria Popova
- Horizon by Barry Lopez
- Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream by Carson Vaughan
- The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein
- Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
- The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
- The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
- A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold
- How to Be a Friend to a Friend Who's Sick by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
- Future Perfect: A Skeptic’s Search for an Honest Mystic by Victoria Loustalot
- AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee
- A More Beautiful and Terrible History by Jeanne Theoharis
- The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Becoming by Michelle Obama
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain by John E. Sarno