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Books 2019

  • Writer: Menachem hecht
    Menachem hecht
  • Jan 1, 2020
  • 2 min read

Updated: Mar 19, 2020


The Bookworm Carl Spitzwegca. 1850

People seem to want to know what I am currently reading or what I have read in the past. Here what I read in 2019, the ones I think are really really good are underlined. I am proud of this year as I read 50 books, which has been my goal for a while now. I think I'll try to match or beat that for 2020. Anyways, without further ado:


  1. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Haruki Murakami

  2. When We Were Orphans, Kazuo Ishiguro

  3. 80 Days Around the World, Jules Verne

  4. The Accidental Apprentice, Vikas Swarup

  5. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer

  6. The Power of One, Bryce Courtney

  7. April Fools Day, Bryce Courtney

  8. A Column of Fire, Ken Follet

  9. The Best of Adam Sharp, Graeme Simion

  10. Essays in Love, Allaine Du Button

  11. Bird By Bird, Anne Lamott

  12. Fleshmarket Close - Ian Ranking

  13. Brother of the More Famous Jack, Barabra Trapido

  14. Killing Commendatore - Haruki Murakami

  15. Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss, Rajeev Balasubramanyam

  16. Artemis, Andy Weir

  17. Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Novella)

  18. Sadness and Beauty, Yasunari Kawabata

  19. Sourdough, Robin Sloan

  20. Eleanor Oliphant is Fine, Gail Honeyman

  21. Educated, Tara Westover

  22. Everything Changes, Jonathan Tropper

  23. Hector and the Search For Happiness, Francois Lelord

  24. Wind/Pinball, Haruki Murakami

  25. Everything Happens For A Reason, Kate Bowler

  26. How to Talk to A Widower, Jonathan Toppler

  27. They Came to Baghdad, Agatha Christie

  28. Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Murakami

  29. Pachinko, Min Jin Lee

  30. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien

  31. Factfulness, Hans Rosling

  32. Marriage of Opposites, Alice Hoffman

  33. The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson

  34. The Girl Who Lived Twice, David Lagerkranzt

  35. South of the Border West Of The Sun, Haruki Murakami

  36. She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb

  37. Man and Boy, Tony Parsons

  38. Laughter in Darkness, Vladamir Nabokov

  39. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

  40. Nutshell, Ian Mcewan

  41. All About Lulu, Jonathan Evison

  42. Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami

  43. A Man In Full, Tom Wolfe

  44. The Things I Want To You To Know About Stieg Larson And Me, Eva Gabrielson

  45. The Financial Lives Of The Poets, Jess Walters

  46. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin

  47. The Bookstore, Penelope Fitzgerald

  48. The Kill Artist, Daniel Silva

  49. Murder On The Links, Agatha Christie

  50. The Covenant, James A Michener

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