In 2019 your ‘umble blogger read 46 books. That’s about my usual pace. Can you believe I’ve been writing these year-end reading posts since 2010? That’s a solid decade. Here’s the list from 2018.
Below are all the titles I read in 2019. Feel free to comment with your thoughts on your own reading in 2019 or, if you have the right combination of ambition and leisure time, to list all your books from the year.
- “Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78 rpm Records,” Amanda Petrusich
- “Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles,” Jonathan Gold
- “After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame,” Lynell George
- “Train,” Tom Zoellner
- “The Lost Art of Walking,” Geoff Nicholson
- “Over the Hills,” David Lamb
- “Beyond This Horizon,” Robert A. Heinlein
- “Edgeworks Vol. 1,” Harlan Ellison
- “Edgeworks Vol. 2,” Harlan Ellison
- “An Edge in My Voice,” Harlan Ellison
- “The Blood of the Lamb,” Peter De Vries
- “A Pleasure to Burn,” Ray Bradbury
- “Dreams and Schemes,” Steve Lopez
- “The Simulacra,” Philip K. Dick
- “Lies Inc.,” Philip K. Dick
- “The Unteleported Man,” Philip K. Dick
- “Only Apparently Real,” Paul Williams
- “The Colour of Memory,” Geoff Dyer
- “The Orange and the Dream of California,” David Boulé
- “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” William Shakespeare
- “Timon of Athens,” William Shakespeare
- “Pericles,” William Shakespeare
- “Shakespeare: The World as Stage,” Bill Bryson
- “Collected Stories,” Willa Cather
- “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” Robert M. Pirsig
- “California Dreamin’ Along Route 66,” Joe Sonderman
- “On the Road With Bob Dylan,” Larry “Ratso” Sloman
- “The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture and Style,” Nelson George
- “What to Eat,” Marion Nestle
- “American Fried,” Calvin Trillin
- “Alice, Let’s Eat,” Calvin Trillin
- “Third Helpings,” Calvin Trillin
- “The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan,” Kevin Dettmar, editor
- “Counter-Clock World,” Philip K. Dick
- “A Canticle for Leibowitz,” Walter M. Miller Jr.
- “Can and Can’tankerous,” Harlan Ellison
- “Alive in La La Land,” Jack Smith
- “How the World Was: A California Childhood,” Emmanuel Guibert
- “Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters, 1542 to 2018,” David Kipen, editor
- “Panorama: A Picture History of Southern California,” W.W. Robinson
- “The Library Book,” Susan Orlean
- “Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies,” Reyner Banham
- “The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum,” Stanley Weinbaum
- “Silent Visions: Discovering Early Hollywood and New York Through the Films of Harold Lloyd,” John Bengtson
- “J.D. Salinger: A Biography,” Paul Alexander
- “2020 Vision”: Jerry Pournelle, editor