
This has been a fantastic year for reading. It’s always been my favorite thing to do, but I think this year I really prioritized it as THE thing to do whenever I had a spare moment of time. I’ve also found extra joy in tracking a lot of new stats using Book Riot’s Reading Log. This may not interest anyone but me, but I’m definitely going to share all that with you in a minute. š I am SO happy to be a reader and have this chance to share all of my favorites with you each month! The bookish community is my favorite place to hang out online, researching and finding new books to read is almost as much of a hobby as reading itself, and diving into that perfect book is about the best feeling in the entire world. I pour over these end of the year lists each December, adding more books to my TBR list than I’ll ever have time to actually read. And I’m okay with that, as long as I always have options! Reading is simply THE BEST.
(I should mention that other than number of books read, my stats are SLIGHTLY skewed because I didn’t realize the spreadsheet was going to include my DNF’d books and I can’t delete them without messing up the numbering for everything else, so if you’re actually doing the math, there are 158 books included in my stats. I won’t be marking DNF’s on this tracker in 2020!)
THE STATS:
Books Read: 152







The Books
Okay, okay, enough with the stats, let’s get to the books. I’m going to give you my top 5* fiction – the books that I ADORED, I can remember clearly long after I’ve finished them, they probably made me both laugh and cry, and I’m likely to want to read them again. And because I had so many 5 star fiction books in total, I’ll give you a bonus so they’re not left out! Then I’ll give you my top nonfiction of the year and my top cookbooks. Enjoy!

Top 10 Fiction Books of 2019
- The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren
- A Curse so Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer (READ THIS, second book comes out in a few weeks!!)
- Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
- Well Met by Jen DeLuca
- Five Minute Life by Emma Scott
- Heidi’s Guide to Four Letter Words by Tara Sivec and Andi Arndt
- To Night Owl From Dog Fish by Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer
- The Good Girl’s Guide to Being Bad by Cookie O’Gorman
- The Summer of Chasing Dreams by Holly Martin
- Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Bonus 5 Star Fiction Books of 2019
- Eleanor & Grey by Brittainy Cherry
- The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez
- With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Aceveda
- Savaged by Mia Sheridan
- Lock Every Door by Riley Sager
- The Wives by Tarryn Fisher

Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2019
- Everybody, Always by Bob Goff (audio!)
- Fail Until You Don’t by Bobby Bones (audio!)
- Skinny Liver by Kristin Kirkpatrick
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
- The Ministry of Ordinary Places by Shannan Martin
- Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
- Atomic Habits by James Clear
- Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness (audio!)
- Cozy Minimalist Home by Myquillyn Smith
- Book Love by Debbie Tung

Top 5 Cookbooks of 2019
- Tex Mex Cookbook by Ford Fry
- Half Baked Harvest: Super Simple by Tieghan Gerard
- Pimento Cheese: The Cookbook by Perre Coleman Magness
- The Edible Cookie Dough Cookbook by Olivia Hops
- Salt and Straw by Tyler Malek