My 2019 Reading List

I’m an avid reader and managed to read a total of 42 books in 2019.

For the most part, I try to read whatever catches my interest in order to keep things fresh. When you don’t enjoy what you’re reading, you’ll struggle to do it on a daily basis and you’ll struggle to finish.

Which is another thing I’ve had to train myself to do – put down books that I’m not enjoying or getting much out of. Sunk cost fallacy gets us a lot. But you wouldn’t finish a movie you hated, so why feel guilty about putting down a book you’ve started?

This year I’ve read across different fields and categories. I’m mostly reading non-fiction these days but did get in some good novels as well.

*Starred books are ones I REALLY enjoyed, thought were important, and that I learned the most from. I highly recommend these books and plan on re-reading them again myself. Books with a number in brackets after them (2) are books I’ve already read before – this denotes a re-read.

So without further ado, here is my 2019 Reading List:

My 2019 Reading List

1. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari
2. Girl, Wash Your Face – Rachel Hollis
3. Vicious – V.E. Schwab
4. The Courage to Be Disliked – Fumitake Koga & Ichiro Kishimi
5. *The Alter Ego Effect – Todd Herman
6. Becoming – Michelle Obama
7. Brave New World (2) – Aldous Huxley
8. Game Changers – Dave Asprey
9. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life – Walter Isaacson
10. Get Rich, Lucky Bitch – Denise Duffield-Thomas
11. *Never Split the Difference – Chris Voss
12. Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
13. Speaker for the Dead – Orson Scott Card
14. Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office – Lois P. Frankel
15. *Inferior – Angela Saini
16. High Performance Habits – Brendan Burchard
17. Everything is F*cked – Mark Manson
18. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
19. Big Magic – Elizabeth Gilbert
20. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
21. The E-Myth Revisited – Michael Gerber
22. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
23. Conspiracy – Ryan Holiday
24. The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
25. Brief Answers to the Big Questions – Stephen Hawking
26. *Rules for Radicals – Saul Alinsky
27. Educated – Tara Westover
28. Miracles – Stuart Wilde
29. The Miracle Morning – Hal Elrod
30. Propaganda – Edward Bernays
31. Media Control – Noam Chomsky
32. Sam Walton: Made in America – Sam Walton
33. The Score Takes Care of Itself – Bill Walsh
34. A Darker Shade of Magic – V.E. Schwab
35. Six of Crows – Leigh Bardugo
36. The Power – Naomi Alderman
37. *Overachievement – John Eliot
38. Atomic Habits – James Clear
39. When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
40. *A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
41. The Talent Code – Daniel Coyle
42. The Odyssey – Homer

Happy reading!

Have you read any of the books listed above? I’d love to hear your thoughts and engage in discussion – leave a comment below and I’ll get back to you. :)