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Books I Read in 2019

Since I work in news and a lot of the writing I do is non-fiction, all the books I read this year were fiction. I thoroughly enjoyed reading all of them and yes, I read 3 Murakami books this year and loved them all. Will definitely be reading more of his work in 2020. I’ve also made a goal to read 20 books next year, 15 fiction and 5 non-fiction. I’ve written a review for all of these books which can be found here. Any recommendations for both genres are welcome!

*Most disappointing book I read this year was The Plague. Was expecting something more exciting given the premise, but didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would

** Toughest book to read was Kafka’s collection of short stories

  1. Fatherland - Robert Harris

  2. The Chrysalids - John Wyndham

  3. Empire of Dragons - Valerio Massimo Manfredi

  4. South of the Border, West of the Sun - Haruki Murakami

  5. Dune - Frank Herbert

  6. The Outsider - Albert Camus

  7. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami

  8. Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert

  9. One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  10. The Gilt Kid - James Curtis

  11. The Sound Of Waves - Yukio Mishima

  12. Money: A Suicide Note - Martin Amis

  13. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

  14. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick

  15. Rendezvous With Rama - Arthur C. Clarke

  16. The Plague - Albert Camus

  17. The Dog Stars - Peter Heller

  18. Anthem - Ayn Rand

  19. The Metamorphosis & Other Short Stories - Franz Kafka

  20. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami