Boekenjaar 2019 deed me sterrenregens uitdelen.
Van de 105 boeken die ik heb gelezen, waren dit mijn favorieten per categorie (telkens ietwat van goed naar best):
Top 2019 Fictie
John DB – The star of the north 4/5
Wallace Stegner – The spectator bird 4/5
Wallace Stegner – Alle the little live things 4/5
Anne Griffin – When all is said 4/5
Arthur C Clarke – Childhood’s end 4/5
Blake Crouch – Recursion 4/5
Taylor Jenkins Reid – Daisy Jones & The Six 4/5
Elizabeth Strout – Olive, Again 4/5
Walter Tevis – The Queen’s Gambit 4,25/5
Max Porter – Lanny 4,25/5
Rob van Essen – De goede zoon 4,25/5
Ann Patchett – The Dutch House 4,5/5
Stephen King – The long walk 4,5/5
David Nicholls – Sweet sorrow 4,5/5
Taffy Brodesser-Akner – Fleishman Is in Trouble 4,5/5
John Fowles – The Magus 4,5/5
Ali Smith – Spring (Seasonal #3) 4,5/5
Yaa Gyasi – Homegoing 5/5
Tim Murphy – Correspondents 5/5
Top Memoires/essay 2019
Charlotte van den Broeck – Waagstukken 4/5
PF Thomése – Vaderliefde 4/5
Tom Lubbock – Until further notice. I am alive 4/5
Manon Uphoff – Vallen is als vliegen 4/5
Tina Fey – Bossypants 4,25/5 (geweldig audiobook, door haar zelf gelezen)
Stephen Fry – Moab is my washpot (Jongensjaren) (geweldig audiobook, door hem zelf gelezen) 4,5/5
Julie Yip-Williams – The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After 4,5/5
Marion Coutts – The Iceberg 5/5
Top 2019 Non-fiction
David Hepworth – 1971 Never a Dull Moment: Rock’s Golden Year 4/5
Bregman, Rutger – De meeste mensen deugen 4/5
Atul Gawande – Sterfelijk zijn 4/5
Gunter Pauli – Zo slim als de natuur 4/5
Bob Stanley – Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé 4,25/5
Top 2019 short story collections
Adam Haslett – You Are Not a Stranger Here 4/5
Ted Chiang – Exhaltation 4/5
Eric Puchner – Last day on earth/Music Through the Floor 4/5
Carys Davies – The redemption of Galen Pike 4/5
David Eagleman – Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives 4/5
Ryan O’Neill – The Weight of a Human Heart 4,5/5
Top 2019 Graphic Novel
Olivier Schrauwen – Parallel Lives
Fabio Moon – Daytripper 4/5
Pénélope Bagieu – Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World 4/5
Adrian Tomine – Shortcomings 4/5
Brecht Evens – The wrong place 4/5
Heike Faller – Honderd 4.5/5