Goodreads Challenge 2019: roundup

It’s nearing the end of 2019 so you know what that means – it’s time to sum up my reading (yay!). 2019 was a good year. Overall, I surpassed my Goodreads challenge of reading 52 books this year by clocking 67 books!

Here’s the list divided into novels, short story collections, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and graphic novels/comics. The ones I’ve starred are the ones that had a considerable impact on me.

Novels

1. Welcome to Lagos by Chibundu Onuzo
2. Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn
3. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan *
4. The Star Side of Bird Hill by Naomi Jackson
5. Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
6. Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok *
7. Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
8. Augustown by Kei Miller *
9. Golden Child by Claire Adam
10. Here Comes The Sun by Nicole Dennis Benn *
11. My New American Life by Francine Prose
12. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
13. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith *
14. A House For Mr. Biswas by VS Naipaul *
15. Crick, Crack Monkey by Merle Hodge
16. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid *
17. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
18. Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery *
19. My Enemy’s Cherry Tree by Wang Ting-Kuo
20. A View of the Empire at Sunset by Caryl Philips *
21. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
22. The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
23. Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
24. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
25. Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat *
26. Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Short story collections

1. Trinidad Noir: The Classics edited by Earl Lovelace and Robert Antoni
2. What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
3. How to Love a Jamaican by Alexia Arthurs *
4. A Kitchen in the Corner of the House by Ambai
5. The Transformation and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
6. Jokes for the Gunmen by Mazen Maarouf
7. Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link *

Nonfiction

1. Three Tigers, One Mountain by Michael Booth *
2. Thin Places by Jordan Kisner *
3. VS Naipaul’s Journeys by Sanjay Krishnan
4. Stories that Stick by Kindra Hall
5. Online Marketing for Busy Authors by Fauzia Burke
6. Writing is Essential by Judine Slaughter
7. Elements of Fiction by Walter Mosley
8. Footnotes by Peter Fiennes
9. We Need New Stories by Nesrine Malik
10. Focal Point by Brian Tracy
11. Beyond Guilt Trips by Anu Taranath
12. An Uncommon Atlas by Alastair Bonnett
13. The Bells of Old Tokyo by Anna Sherman
14. Cuba Then, Cuba Now by Joshua-Jelly Shapiro
15. Imaginary Homelands by Salman Rushdie
16. Diasporic (Dis)locations by Brinda J Mehta *
17. The Good Immigrant edited by Nikesh Shukla
18. How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
19. The Minimalist Home by Joshua Becker
20. Unconventional Medicine by Chris Kresser
21. How to Polish Your Manuscript in 10 Days by Anne Victory

Memoir

1. In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
2. At Home in the World by Tsh Oxenreider
3. The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin
4. Autumn Light by Pico Iyer
5. Educated by Tara Westover *
6. Apple, Tree by Lisa Funderburg
7. Malaya by Cinelle Barnes *
8. A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid *
9. A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand
10. Magic Realism for Non-Believers by Anika Fajardo *
11. Belonging by bell hooks *

Graphic Novel/Comics

1. The Wonderful World of Sazae San by Machiko Hasegawa

Poetry

1. Modern Sudanese Poetry by Adil Babikir

How many books did you read this year? What were your favorites?