My Favorite Books of 2019

Since the year is almost over, it’s finally time to start discussing all of my favorite things from 2019. Today, I’m going to be talking about the books I read and enjoyed.

New (to me) series & Noteworthy sequels 

2019 was a great year for sequels. A lot of the series I was looking forward to continuing turned out to have great follow-ups. I also got into some new series, and I finally read some of the novellas that had been on my TBR list for a couple of years.

• A Dream So Dark by L.L. McKinney
• A Winter's Promise by Christelle Dabos translated by Hildegarde Serle
• The Missing of Clairdelune by Christelle Dabos translated by Hildegarde Serle
• The Wayward Children series (Every Heart A Doorway, Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Beneath the Sugar Sky, In An Absent Dream) by Seanan McGuire
• Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
• Dead Voices by Katherine Arden
• Word to the Wise by Jenn McKinlay
• The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire
• It Devours! by Joseph Fink and Jeffery Cranor
• Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffery Cranor
• The Girl With the Dragon Heart by Stephanie Burgis
• The Girl Who Flew With Dragons by Stephanie Burgis
• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor 
• Binti: The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor
• Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
• The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi

Standalone novels & Nonfiction + the lone reread 

There were also a number of standalone novels I read this year. There are only a couple of books that came out in 2019 on this part of my list, mainly because in the latter half of the year I started to focus more on the backlist titles I wanted to read.

• Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
• Well Met by Jen DeLuca
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• Neverwhere and The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
• The Penguin Historical Atlas of the Medieval World by Andrew Jotischky & Caroline Hull
• Fashioning Fashion, European Dress in Detail 1700-1915 by Sharon Sadako Takeda & Kaye Durland Spilker 
• Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones

What are some of the books you read and enjoyed in 2019? (They don’t have to be new releases.) Let us know about some of your favorites in the comments down below.