Best Books of 2019
This year has been eventful and I have enjoyed a lot of them. So here are the best ones I found this year.
Rereads do not count.
I find it very difficult to place them in a particular order. But here we go.
#10 Charlotte's Web, E.B. White
A lovely story of a little pig, a spider who is smarter than most animals in the same farm, a human girl and so many little things that seem much grander.
It is interesting how you can go through life without seeing this story be it in the actual book or even the movie. The book was very heartwarming and now I want to watch the movie.
#9 The exorcist, William Peter Blatty.
The story tells the novelization of a true story of a child being possessed. The mother, a divorced actress who is struggling to make it as a director in an era where women are openly put down by the male in the same industry.
It is hard to describe but I can see why it has withstood the test of time.
#8 My sister's keeper, Jodi Picoult.
It is a story about a family and what they go through while they struggle with a medical decision, we also get to see the life of a social worker and an attorney who simply want to help.
The ending is the worst part of the whole thing.
I love the siblings here.
#7 The house of scorpion, Nancy Farmer.
We follow Mateo, who grows up in isolation and he does not know why. There is a whole world he does not know anything about until almost 3/4 of the whole story.
We have a close-by future of USA and Mexico.
There is an adventure but then again this is part one and I still need to get to the second one, the ending was very promising.
#6 Night, Elie Wiesel.
This is a book I have been looking for since freshman year high school. I read this first time, not sure if a portion or if the whole thing in English class.
I had wanted to find it, but for my life, I could not remember the name, and then one day by chance a book I started from Scribd turned out to be the one.
This was originally written in French and it was recently translated, well this is a new translation version.
This is a story that is heart-wrenching. I just cried m way through several parts of it and yet after a while, I get again the yearning for it once more.
Rereads do not count.
I find it very difficult to place them in a particular order. But here we go.
#10 Charlotte's Web, E.B. White
A lovely story of a little pig, a spider who is smarter than most animals in the same farm, a human girl and so many little things that seem much grander.
It is interesting how you can go through life without seeing this story be it in the actual book or even the movie. The book was very heartwarming and now I want to watch the movie.
#9 The exorcist, William Peter Blatty.
The story tells the novelization of a true story of a child being possessed. The mother, a divorced actress who is struggling to make it as a director in an era where women are openly put down by the male in the same industry.
It is hard to describe but I can see why it has withstood the test of time.
#8 My sister's keeper, Jodi Picoult.
It is a story about a family and what they go through while they struggle with a medical decision, we also get to see the life of a social worker and an attorney who simply want to help.
The ending is the worst part of the whole thing.
I love the siblings here.
#7 The house of scorpion, Nancy Farmer.
We follow Mateo, who grows up in isolation and he does not know why. There is a whole world he does not know anything about until almost 3/4 of the whole story.
We have a close-by future of USA and Mexico.
There is an adventure but then again this is part one and I still need to get to the second one, the ending was very promising.
#6 Night, Elie Wiesel.
This is a book I have been looking for since freshman year high school. I read this first time, not sure if a portion or if the whole thing in English class.
I had wanted to find it, but for my life, I could not remember the name, and then one day by chance a book I started from Scribd turned out to be the one.
This was originally written in French and it was recently translated, well this is a new translation version.
This is a story that is heart-wrenching. I just cried m way through several parts of it and yet after a while, I get again the yearning for it once more.
#5 Daisy and the six, Taylor Jenkins Reid.
A story told in an interview about a musical group in the sixties. It is full of people trying to make themselves look better than what they actually were, it is very realistic how they all had a slightly different version of the same events.
Very enjoyable and fun read.
#4 The lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch
I love stories about heists, friendship groups. We see Locke as he grows up. The writing style is a bit difficult to get into as it is told in snips a right now and in the past showing Locke as he was growing up. He is trying to pull up a heist and tries to make rich people lose money for no other reason than to make their pockets grow bigger.
#3 11/22/63, Stephen King
This is a very interesting SciFi story maybe. A time-traveling spot to a very convenient time frame and the man who finds it out decides to prevent JF Kenedy's assassination and we discover that the past refuses to be bent or changed. It is a very long book but it is so worth it.
#2 Warbreaker, Brandon Sanderson.
It is a story of a girl who goes as a sacrifice and marries a living God from an enemy culture. We see her as she tries to live in a society very different than what she grew up and complete opposite beliefs.
There is a very unexpected love interest, a super-strong love between two sisters, weird magic based on gods and belief.
#1 Call down the hawk, Maggie Stiefvater.
Ronan and Adam are back but the story takes a whole new way, there are no longer Raven boys really. Adam is also missing for most of the book.
But we have a lot of things going on, we see other dreamers, prophets, and government agents who are out for blood. It feels such a huge change from the Raven Cycle, the first one was character-based and absolutely no plot, or at least very slow-moving to this one that fills action-packed.
We get a lot more of a back story for Declan and Matthew. And we see the start of a very promising adventure.
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