What I Read in 2019
JANUARY
The Children Act
Ian McEwan
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel Jane Smiley
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker Tobias Smollett
FEBRUARY
Good as Gone Amy Gentry
The Name of the Wind Patrick Rothfuss
Anything is Possible Elizabeth Strout
The Bride of Lammermoor Sir Walter Scott
Mrs. Bridge Evan S. Connell
MARCH
Convenience Store Woman Sayaka Murata
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Daniel Mueeneddin
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power Steve Coll
APRIL
The Return Hisham Matar
Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey Janet Malcolm
All Days are Night Peter Stamm
Sometimes a Great Notion * Ken Kesey
MAY
Persuasion Jane Austen
The Last Days of Night Graham Moore
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
On Trails Robert Moor
JUNE
Offshore * Penelope Fitzgerald
Behold the Dreamers Imbolo Mbue
The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare
Startup Doree Shafrir
JULY
In Siberia Colin Thubron
The Game of Love and Death Martha Brockenbrough
The Door Magda Szabo
Nights at the Alexandra William Trevor
AUGUST
Middlemarch * George Eliot
The Past Tessa Hadley
Fever Mary Beth Keane
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
SEPTEMBER
One Life David Lida
Thank You for Being Late Thomas L. Friedman
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage Ann Patchett
The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare
The Trial Franz Kafka
Bradstreet Gate Robin Kirman
OCTOBER
The Man Who Cried I Am John A. Williams
Flaneuse Lauren Elkin
The Buried Giant Kazuo Ishiguro
NOVEMBER
Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas
Fourth of July Creek Smith Henderson
Ninety-Nine Stories of God Joy Williams
DECEMBER
Waiting for the Barbarians J.M. Coetzee
Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan