My reading in 2019

I've read a fairly impressive (for me) 16 books this year. If I beat one a month I feel I'm doing pretty well.

I know some bloggers devour 200 or even 300 books in a year. I've no idea how. But I do like the fact that I can remember what happened in the books I've read, and I doubt that would be possible if I read ten times as many.

Here's my reading in 2018. I've been doing this a while so you can step back quite a way.

As ever, every headline links to my review of the book on Goodreads.

The Best Book I read in 2019

The Best Book I read in 2019 that was published in 2019

(highest average rating of my 2019 reads)

The rest of my reads in the order I read them:

A really good read and contender for best of the year.

A great read despite my lack of enthusiasm for satire in fantasy.

Kerouac's classic left me cold.

(highest number of ratings out of my 2019 reads)

Another favourite of the year - a gentle book.

A well-written book that got the sharp end of my logic/science nit-picking.

Dune + Name of the Wind, an entertaining sci-fantasy.

(longest book I read in 2019)

Old school swords and sorcery - a decent yarn. 

(shortest book I read in 2019 - also lowest number of ratings)

A popular book that didn't work for me, too YA?

Winner of SPFBO 2018 - a very good read that, like Kings of the Wyld, had to battle my not being a fan of fantasy satire.

An enjoyable collection of short stories that's enabled me to appreciate the TV series more.

Well written steam-punk that didn't quite work for me.

Original thinking and nice ideas but mixed with too much Mathematica sales pitch and mechanics.

This one felt rather generic and safe to me - but was fairly entertaining.

An impressive debut and SPFBO finalist.

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