Books I Read In 2019

Here is a list of all the books I read this year. Those with asterisks beside them are the ones that made it into my annual Best Books of the Year lists.

1. An Introduction to Counselling by John McLeod
2. The Book of Vodou by Leah Gordon
3. The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal by Horatio Clare *
4. Les Apéros de Trish by Trish Deseine
5. The Serpent and the Rainbow by Wade Davis
6. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King *

   

7. Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy by C.H. Patterson
8. The Elements of Style by Strunk & White
9. Standards and Ethics for Counselling in Action by Tim Bond *
10. The Secrets You Hide by Kate Helm
11. Individual Therapy: A Handbook by Windy Dryden (ed.)
12. A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
13. Nine Lives by Dan Baum

    

14. Less by Andrew Sean Greer
15. Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl *
16. Psychotherapy and Existentialism by Viktor Frankl *
17. A novel which I’m not allowed to name because it’s not coming out until next year
18. Your Guilty Secret by Rebecca Thornton
19. Dangerous Families: Assessment and Treatment of Child Abuse by Peter Dale et al.
20. After She’s Gone by Camilla Grebe
21. Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg

    

22. Animals Eat Each Other by Elle Nash
23. Normal by Graeme Cameron
24. The Dinner by Herman Koch
25. Fallen Angel by Chris Brookmyre
26. The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
27. Hot Milk by Deborah Levy

    

28. Looking for Alaska by John Green
29. The Poison Artist by Jonathan Moore
30. Burnt Paper Sky by Gilly MacMillan
31. Heft by Liz Moore
32. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara *
33. Silence in the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge *
34. The Secret History by Donna Tartt *
35. The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

    

36. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
37. The Last Asylum by Barbara Taylor *
38. Unicorns: The Myths, Legends and Lore by Skye Alexander
39. The Therapeutic Relationship by Sheila Haugh & Stephen Paul
40. An Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis by Charles Brenner
41. The Secret History of Georgian London by Dan Cruikshank

    

42. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
43. Enchantments of the Clinic by Carl P. Ellerson
44. The Evidence Against You by Gillian McAllister
45. The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware
46. Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter
47. One Day by David Nicholls
48. Confessions of a Sociopath by M.E. Thomas
49. Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris

    

50. The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide
51. Tinkers by Paul Harding
52. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck *
53. Working Days: The Journals of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ by John Steinbeck
54. Gestalt Therapy Verbatim by Frederick Perls
55. The Furies by Katie Lowe
56. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

    

57. Lullaby by Leïla Slimani
58. The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
59. I’ll Find You by Liz Lawler
60. The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
61. Dear Mrs. Bird by AJ Pearce
62. Never Greener by Ruth Jones
63. The Worlds of Existentialism by Maurice Friedman *

    

64. Anthology of Fear by various authors
65. Prince d’Orchestre par Metin Arditi
66. The Partisan Heart by Gordon Kerr
67. Inventing the Enemy by Umberto Eco
68. In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin
69. The New Orleans Voodoo Handbook by Kenaz Filan
70. The Idiot by Elif Batuman *

    

71. Comme un Enfant Perdu by Renaud Séchan *
72. Iron in the Soul by Jean-Paul Sartre
73. From the Tree to the Labyrinth by Umberto Eco
74. The Night She Died by Jenny Blackhurst
75. Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Green
76. Behind Closed Doors by Elizabeth Haynes
77. The Girlfriend by Michelle Frances

    

78. The Horse Dancer by Jojo Moyes
79. Never Tell by Lisa Gardner
80. How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco
81. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti by Maya Deren
82. The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak by Randy Fertel
83. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
84. Empire of Sin by Gary Krist

    

85. Haitian Vodou by Mambo Chita Tann
86. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman *
87. Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston
88. The New Orleans Voodoo Tarot by Louis Martinié & Sallie Ann Glassman
89. Contes et Légendes d’Afrique d’Ouest en Est by Yves Pinguilly & Cathy Millet
90. See You In The Morning by Mairead Case
91. The First Slap by Tara K.

    

92. Wilde About the Girl by Louise Pentland
93. Voodoo In Haiti by Alfred Métraux
94. Say You’re Sorry by Karen Rose
95. How To Be Famous by Caitlin Moran
96. Bed by David Whitehouse
97. Tape by Steven Camden
98. The End We Start From by Megan Hunter

    

99. When All Is Said by Anne Griffin *
100. Spirits of the Night: Vaudun Gods of Haiti by Selden Rodman & Carole Cleaver
101. Complete Book of Tarot by Cassandra Eason
102. Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport *
103. Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch *
104. The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
105. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

     

106. A Good Enough Mother by Bev Thomas
107. The Taking of Annie Thorne by CJ Tudor
108. Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco
109. A beta-read for a friend
110. A sensitivity read for a client
111. My novel, in order to edit it

     

112. The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths
113. The Book of Legendary Lands by Umberto Eco
114. Indexing Books by Nancy C. Mulvany
115. Loser Wins by Jean-Paul Sartre
116. I Owe You One by Sophie Kinsella
117. The Wayward Girls by Amanda Mason
118. An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen
119. Outsider by Stephen King

     

120. The Secret Keeper by Susan Lewis
121. A sensitivity read for a client
122. Diary of a Witchcraft Shop by Trevor Jones & Liz Williams
123. ‘Hysteria: The Elusive Neurosis’ (Monograph in Psychological Issues vol. XII) by Alan Krohn
124. Hysteria: The History of a Disease by Ilza Veith
125. Integration and Self-Healting: Affect – Trauma – Alexithymia by Henry Krystal *
126. Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Bateman & Holmes

     

127. Phantoms of the Clinic by Mikita Brottman
128. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
129. Sex, Power, Money by Sara Pascoe
130. Being a Witch and Other Things I Didn’t Ask For by (a different) Sara Pascoe
131. Labyrinth by Burhan Sönmez
132. The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

Next year I’d like to read more: during the last quarter of 2019 I barely read anything, which brought down my overall average. And I’d like to read some really good novels next year, because although I read a few very good ones, on the whole it wasn’t such a great year for fiction chez scar.

Previous years: 2018