three years. sixty stories.

Man, I guess I haven't written in a while.

It's a new day, new year, new decade, new font. And just a bit ago, I got cozy with my laptop and a blanket and sat down to publish my 2019 good reads list--only to discover that I failed to publish my list from 2018... or 2017. The horror! First intention for 2020: I plan to get back here more often. But for now, here's my better-late-than-never list of reads from the last third of the last decade.

Twenty Seventeen 

1. Emotionally Healthy Spirituality | P. Schizarro (2/17)
2. Alexander Hamilton | R. Chernow (8/4)
3. The Storyteller | J. Picoult (8/28) 
4. I Love You More | J. Murphy (8/29) 
5. Fates and Furies | L. Groff (9/5) *
6. Parenting with Love and Logic | F. Cline + J. Fay (10/5) 
7. The 5 Love Languages of Teenagers | G. Chapman (10/20) 
8. Growth Hacker Marketing | R. Holiday (10/24)
9. Born a Crime | T. Noah (11/19) *
10. The Couple Next Door | S. Lapena (11/23) 
11. Hunger | R. Gay (12/16)
12. Little Fires Everywhere | C. Ng (12/28)

My favorite book of 2017 was:

Twenty Eighteen 

1. Everything I Never Told You | C. Ng (1/7)***
2. The Power of Moments | C. Heath + D. Heath (1/22)
3. Daring Greatly | B. Brown (2/17)
4. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | M. Angelou (3/11)***
5. The Alchemist | P. Coehlo (3/13)
6. Still Me | J. Moyes (4/8) 
7. The Happiness Advantage | S. Achor (5/20) 
8. The Four Tendencies | G. Rubin (6/11) 
9. The Power of Habit | C. Duhigg (4/27) 
10. Marketing Multiplied | Moore + Thomas (6/19)
11. The One Thing | J. Papasan (7/6)
12. Mom and Me and Mom | M. Angelou (7/21)***
13. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine | G. Honeyman (8/15) 
14. The Hate U Give | A Thomas (8/21)
15. When | D. Pink (8/21)
16. Love Does | B. Goff (8/27)
17. The House on Mango Street | S. Cisneros (8/28)*
18. Man's Search for Meaning | V. Frankl (9/17)
19. The Conscious Parent | S. Tsabary (9/25)
20. The 1-Page Marketing Plan | A. Dib (10/7)*
21. I Can't Make This Up | K. Hart (10/20)*
22. Talking as Fast as I Can | L. Graham (10/15)
23. Why Not Me | M. Kaling (10/27) 
24. Crazy Rich Asians | K. Kwan (11/15) 
25. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me | M. Kaling (11/19)
26. China Rich Girlfriend | K. Kwan (12/4) 
27. To Shake the Sleeping Self | J. Jenkins (12/19) *

My favorite book of 2018 was:

Twenty Nineteen 

1. Rich People Problems | K. Kwan (1/10) 
2. The Awakened Family | S. Tsabary (2/2) 
3. Just This | R. Rohr (2/16) 
4. Love Wins | R. Bell (2/23) 
5. Becoming | M. Obama (4/13)*
6. A People's History of the United States | H. Zinn (4/24)*
7. You Can't Touch My Hair | P. Robinson (4/29)*
8. The Dance of the Dissident Daughter | S. Kidd (5/12) 
9. Atomic Habits | J. Clear (5/14) 
10. A New Earth | E. Tolle (6/16)**
11. Normal People | S. Rooney (6/28) 
12. Marriageology | B. Luscombe (7/1) 
13. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | R. Skloot (7/30)* 
14. The Untethered Soul | M. Singer (7/31)* 
15. The Enneagram | R. Rohr + A Ebert (8/5) 
16. Dare to Lead | B. Brown (8/11) 
17. Untangled | L. Damour (8/17)*
18. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl | M. Awad (10/31) 
19. Give and Take | A. Grant (11/23) 
20. Where the Crawdads Sing | D. Owen (11/29)*
21. Tell Me More | K. Corrigan (12/28)*

And my favorite book of 2019 was:

And you? Surely you've read a handful of good books in the last couple years too. Recommendations? I'd love to hear them. In any case, Happy New Year. Happy reading!