2019 was the year I stopped my feast or famine reading style, where I would either ban myself completely from reading in order to get some writing done, or give in and binge read all night, and day, and night again, and get no writing done at all. So I joined the #52booksin52weeks challenge, hoping it would help – and it did! I really loved making time to read – or listen, as audiobooks helped me reach my goal.
[Check out the 52 books I read in 52 weeks here…]
I tried to narrow down my top five reads for 2019, as so many people were doing – but it was way too difficult! My top three were easy – Circe by Madeline Miller, and The Harp of Kings and Beautiful, both by Juliet Marillier (such a treat to have two new books from my favourite author!) – but after that I was stuck. I added three more, to make a top six – numbers four, five and six, in no particular order, were Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw (I loved last year’s Wicked Deep too), the magical The Blue Rose by Kate Forsyth, and A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness.
But there were another twelve I really loved too (in no particular order)…
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E Harrow
Secrets of the Chocolate House by Paula Brackston
Becoming by Michelle Obama (audiobook, self-narrated)
The Arrival by Kastie Pavlik
Lamp Black, Wolf Grey by Paula Brackston
Rising Strong by Brene Brown (audiobook, self-narrated)
Bury The Living by Jodi McIsaac
Blood Communion by Anne Rice
God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens (audiobook, self-narrated)
Enchant by Demelza Carlton
One Little Spell by DL Richardson
Simon Vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Now I’m looking forward to getting started on my 2020 pile!
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