Here’s my list of 33 books read in 2019 and a brief verdict. I wish it was more but my free time was spent on the launch of a fintech news site and creative writing.
(* Indicates it has been read before.)
Five stars
Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana, Michael & Sam Witwer, Newman and Peterson, 2018
Lou Reed: A Life, Anthony DeCurtis, 2017
England Made Me, Graham Greene, 1935*
The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe, 1972*
The Journals, James Cook, 1768-1779
The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, 1950*
Hell’s Angels, Hunter S. Thompson, 1967
Lady Sings the Blues, Billie Holiday, 1956
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, 1865*
Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll, 1871*
The Big Short, Michael Lewis, 2010
Four stars
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck, 1939*
Gordon Walters: New Vision, Various, 2017
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, 1932*
The Looking Glass War, John Le Carré, 1965
The Music of Chance, Paul Auster, 1990
30-Second Physics, Various, 2016
The Atrocity Exhibition, J. G. Ballard, 1970*
Gold Coast, Elmore Leonard, 1980
Angels, David Albert Jones, 2011
Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges, 1944
The Ipcress File, Len Deighton, 1962
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton, 1911
Japanese Ghost Stories, Lafcadio Hearn, 1894-1905
Three stars
Wolves of the Calla, Stephen King, 2003
Song of Susannah, Stephen King, 2004
The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West, 1939
Lud-in-the-Mist, Hope Mirrlees, 1926
The Dark Tower, Stephen King, 2004
Dandelions, Yasunari Kawabata, 1972
Two stars
Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner, 1929
One star
Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938
