It’s the time of the year to look back and reflect on what we read and what we loved. Here are my 19 favorites from 2019, plus 1 additional title (as usual). You’ll find a few family sagas, psychological thrillers and romances, books with unreliable narrators or ‘what if’ plots, as well as memoirs that will renew your faith in the resilience of the human spirit. Sit back, pick one and travel to Australia, Kentucky (with a kick-ass horseback riding group of librarians!), France, Boston, London, Chicago, New York, Alaska, the Colorado Rockies, the Hamptons, and the Caribbean. Enjoy your reading and my last blog post as a Cleveland Heights Librarian. I am retiring but definitely will not retire from reading! I hope you all keep on reading as well! Enjoy!
When You Read This by Mary Adkins
The Unbreakables by Lisa Barr
Freefall by Jessica Barry
Drawing Home by Jamie Bremer
Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
My Lovely Wife by Samanatha Downing
The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
The Lost Man by Jane Harper
What Happens in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand
Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes
From Scratch: a memoir of love, Sicily and finding home by Tembi Locke
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
The Lost Vintage by Ann Mah
See You in the Piazza by Frances Mayes
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Editor by Steven Rowley
Fin and Lady by Cathleen Schine
The Seine: the river that made Paris by Elaine Scoliono
Educated by Tara Westover