2019 Reading List

January 2019

• The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory (review)
• Black Girl in Paris by Shay Youngblood (review)
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple (review) 
• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (review)
• Courageous Creative: A 31-Day Interactive Devotional by Jenny Randle (review)

February 2019

• Beartown by Fredrik Backman (review)
• Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (review)
• It's Not Supposed to be This Way by Lysa TerKeurst (review)
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness* by Michelle Alexander (review)

March 2019

• We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin (review)
• On the Come Up by Angie Thomas (review) 
• Home for Erring and Outcast Girls by Julie Kibler (review)
• Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams (review)

April 2019

• A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea by Masaji Ishikawa (review)
• The Giver by Lois Lowry (review)
• A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi (review)

May 2019

• What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons (review)
• My Life, My Love, My Legacy* by Coretta Scott King (review)
• When You Read This by Mary Adkins (review)
• The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan (review)

June 2019

• The Last Black Unicorn* by Tiffany Haddish (review)
• Black Girls Must Die Exhausted by Jayne Allen (review)
• The Latte Factor: Why You Don't Have to be Rich to Live Rich* by David Bach (review)
• In My Father's House by Ernest J. Gaines (review)

July 2019

• Surprise Me: A Novel by Sophie Kinsella (review)
• Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward* by Valerie Jarrett (review)
• Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds (review)
• I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella (review)
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead (review)

August 2019

• The Great Jewel Robbery by Elizabeth McKenna (review)
• Hidden Joy in a Dark Corner by Wendy Blight (review)
• Mayhem, Murder and the PTA by Dave Cravens (review)

September 2019

• Well Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim (review)
• Speaking of Summer by Kalisha Buckhanon (review)
• One Day in December by Josie Silver (review)
• Lords of St. Thomas by Jackson Ellis (review)
• One Night in Georgia by Celeste O. Norfleet (review)

October 2019

• Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (review)
• Once We Were Brothers by Ronald H. Balson (review)
• Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center (review)

November 2019

• Beautiful, Complicated Family: Vols 1-2 by Rosey Lee (review)
• How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper (review)

December 2019

• Because of Bethlehem by Max Lucado (review)
• Africaville by Jeffrey Colvin (review)
• Killer Resolutions by Elizabeth McKenna (review)
• Crossover by Kwame Alexander (review)
• I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones, Gilly Segal (review)

*Denotes audiobook consumption