Another Book List // 2019
Inspired by dear friends and heroes (some IRL, some who are my friends on the internet) I made a goal to properly track and share my reading list of 2019. So…. here we are!
75% of these were library books, — and others mostly audio books and ol’ fashioned books purchased at Collage Collage or Book Warehouse Main Street.
Before you scroll through this — some things to know. My taste and attention span currently lean towards a lot of essays, memoir, a handful of graphic novels, photo collections and poetry. I’ve omitted some “worky” books, too.
Titles I LOOOOOOOVE are in bold. These books were a joy to read or changed the way I understand my life and the world we share. Titles that I listened to, in audio format, have an *. Enjoy!
Shout out to the Royal Vancouver Book Club, Michelle Cyca & Megan Lau who inspired me to share a list in this format, and dear pals who are patient with me sending them grainy photos of book titles every few days telling them to read something. And shout out to Pat, who opens up our bedroom to all of these…. authors.
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A Burst of Light — Audre Lorde
A Mind Spread Out On the Ground - Alicia Elliott*
All About Love — Bell Hooks
All That You Leave Behind — Erin Lee Carr
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope — Anne Lamott*
Astrology for Happiness and Success — Mecca Woods
Astro Poets: Your Guide to the Zodiac — Alex Dimitrov & Dorothea Lasky
Black is the Body: Stories From My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time and Mind — Emily Bernard
Book of Delights: Essays — Ross Gay
BTTM FORS — Ezra Clayton Daniels and Ben Passmore
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle — Emily and Amelia Nagoski
Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood — Tiana Clark
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
City on Edge: A Rebellious Century of Vancouver Protests, Riots and Strikes — Kate Bird
Comedy Sex God — Pete Holmes
Conversations with Friends — Sally Rooney
Dare to Lead — Brene Brown
Dear Girls — Ali Wong*
Dog Songs — Mary Oliver
Don’t Just Sit There — Biet Simkin
Erosion — Terry Tempest Williams
Fashion Climbing — Bill Cunningham
For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage — Tara Parker-Pope
Good Talk — Mira Jacob
Goodbye Vitamin- Rachel Khong
Guest Book — Leanne Shapton
Heart Berries — Terese Marie Mailhot
Heartbraker — Claudia Day
How Art Made Pop — Mike Robbins
How to Not Always be Working — Marlee Grace
I Like to Watch — Emily Nussbaum*
Insecure in Love: Anxious Attachment — Leslie Becker Phelps
Is it Still Good to Ya — Robert Christgau
Keywords: the New Language of Capitalism — John Patrick Leary
Kids these Days — Malcolm Harris
Last Girl — Nadia Murad*
Little Weirds — Jenny Slate
Made Beautiful by Use — Sean Horlor
Maeve in America — Maeve Higgins
Make Time: How to Focus On What Matters Every Day — Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
Mindsight — Daniel Sigel
My Sister the Serial Killer — Oyinkan Braithwaite
My Year of Rest and Relaxation — Otessa Moshfeghi
Naturally Tan — Tan France
New and Selected Poems — Mary Oliver
New Poets of Native Nations — Various
Night Moves — Jessica Hopper
Normal People — Sally Rooney
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong
Permanent Record — Mary H K Choi
Pleasure Activism — Adrienne Marie Brown
Queer Eye: Love Yourself, Love Your Life — Fab 5
Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up- Jerry Colona
Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less — Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Rework — Jason Fried
Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Non-Violent Communication — Oren Jay Sofer
Sissy: a Coming of Gender Story — Jacob Tobia
Thanks a Thousand — AJ Jacobs
That Time I Loved You — Carrianne Leung
The All or Nothing Marriage — Eli Finkel
The Animal’s Companion — Jacky Colliss Harvey
The Body is Not an Apology — Sonya Renee Taylor
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good — Elizabeth L Cline
The Craving Mind — Judson Brewer
The Feminine Revolution — Amy Stanton
The Friend — Sigrid Nunez
The Hate U Give — Angie Thomas
The New Me — Halle Butler
The origin of Others — Toni Morrison
The Recovering — Leslie Jamison*
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us — Hanif Abdurraqib
Thick — Tressie Mcmillian Cottom
Trick Mirror — Jia Tolentino*
Trust Exercise — Susan Choi
Unfuck Your Adulting — Faith G. Harper
Unfuck Your Brain — Faith G Harper
Voguing an the Ballroom Scene of NY 1989–92 — Chantal Regnault
What If This Were Enough? — Heather Havrilesky
What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About — Michele Filgate
White Fragility- Robin Diangelo
Work Wife: the Power of Female Friendship to Drive Successful Businesses- Claire Mazur and Erica Cerulo
You Know You Want This — Kristin Roupenian
You’re a Little Sad, So What? — Alicia Tobin
