Books I read in 2019

Hello everyone!!!!!

Welcome to 2020!!! It feels so unreal that this is here. I have so many things planned for this year (seriously, this blogging schedule I've got for January is insane!) and I can't wait to share them with you all! As tradition, here at Movies Meet Their Match I tell you all of the books that I read in the previous year and my top 10. I hope that you enjoy!

Here are my lists from 2018, 2017, and 2016.

As usual, if I reviewed it there will be a link to it. I also got a Goodreads account this year, so you can look at the list HERE but Goodreads has a different way of counting things than I do (usually I don't count devotionals or graphic novels).

New-to-me Reads:

The Year of the Dog - by Grace Lin
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - by Newt Scamander (aka J. K. Rowling)
Dune - by Frank Herbert
The Broken Prince - by Kara Linaburg
Five Poisoned Apples - by Skye Hoffert, Jenelle Hovde, Courtney Manning, Maddie Morrow, & Rachael Wallen.
Emily of New Moon - by L. M. Montgomery (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
North & South - by Elizabeth Gaskell
Flunked - by Jen Calonita
The Adventures of Robin Hood - by Roger Lancelyn Green
Rilla of Ingleside - by L. M. Montgomery
The Secret School - by Avi
The Bridge to Terabithia - by Katherine Paterson
Jackaby - by William Ritter
Anastasia Krupnik - by Lois Lowery
Moriarty - by Anthony Horowitz
Heartless - by Marissa Meyer
Persuasion - by Jane Austen
The Girl Who Drank the Moon - by Kelly Barnhill
A Week of Werewolves, Faeries, and Fancy Dresses - by Nicki Chapelway
A Time of Trepidation, Pirates, and Lost Princesses - by Nicki Chapelway
Agnes Grey - by Anne Brontë
To the Future, Ben Franklin! - by Mary Pope Osborne
Fahrenheit 451 - by Ray Bradbury
Wives & Daughters - by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - by Alan Bradley
Raymie Nightingale - by Kate DiCamillo
Reflections on the Psalms - by C. S. Lewis
The Great Brain - by John D. Fitzgerald
More Adventures of the Great Brain - by John D. Fitzgerald
I Walk In Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trails - by Lisa Rowe Fraustino
Romeo & Juliet - by William Shakespeare
Me and My Little Brain - by John D. Fitzgerald
Christy - by Catherine Marshall (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)
The Great Brain at the Academy - by John D. Fitzgerald
Babe the Gallant Pig - by Dick King-Smith
The Great Brain Reforms - by John D. Fitzgerald
Dandelion: The Extraordinary Life of a Misfit - by Sheelagh Mawe
The Isle of the Lost - by Melissa de La Cruz
The Witches - by Roald Dahl
"When Did You See Her Last?" - by Lemony Snicket
The 39 Clues: From the Grave - by Jude Watson
Rascal - by Sterling North
The Courage of Sarah Noble - by Alice Dalgliesh
Don Quixote de la Mancha - by Miguel de Cervantes

Total: 44 books

Rereads:

The Silver Chair - by C. S. Lewis (Part I, Part II, Part III)
The Wizard of Oz - by L. Frank Baum
"Who Could That Be at This Hour?" - by Lemony Snicket
The Clue of the Velvet Mask - by Carolyn Keene (I don't know if this was a reread, but I'm counting it)

Total: 4 books

Grand total: 48 books!


My 10 Favorite New-to-me Books:

1. North & South - by Elizabeth Gaskell (Eeeep!! I love it so much!)

2. Rilla of Ingleside - by L. M. Montgomery

3. Persuasion - by Jane Austen

4. The Girl Who Drank the Moon - by Kelly Barnhill

5. The Bridge to Terabithia - by Katherine Paterson

6. Five Poisoned Apples - by Skye Hoffert, Jenelle Hovde, Courtney Manning, Maddie Morrow, & Rachael Wallen.

7. The Adventures of Robin Hood - by Roger Lancelyn Green

8. Jackaby - by William Ritter

9. Raymie Nightingale - by Kate DiCamillo

10. The Broken Prince - by Kara Linaburg

Reading Challenges:

I participated in the Mount TBR Reading Challenge hosted by My Reader's Block. I chose the lowest, Pike's Peak which was to read 12 books that I own. I got 16!

Dune - by Frank Herbert
Flunked - by Jen Calonita

The Adventures of Robin Hood - by Roger Lancelyn Green

Rilla of Ingleside - by L. M. Montgomery

The Bridge to Terabithia - by Katherine Paterson

Jackaby - by William Ritter

Agnes Grey - by Anne Brontë

Reflections on the Psalms - by C. S. Lewis

The Great Brain - by John D. Fitzgerald

More Adventures of the Great Brain - by John D. Fitzgerald

Me and My Little Brain - by John D. Fitzgerald

The Great Brain at the Academy - by John D. Fitzgerald

The Great Brain Reforms - by John D. Fitzgerald

Dandelion: The Extraordinary Life of a Misfit - by Sheelagh Mawe

The Isle of the Lost - by Melissa de La Cruz

And she counts reread if you haven't read them in five years, so The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum counts, too.

Part of the challenge is to see how many proverbs and sayings you can finish using the titles of the books that you read. Bev says that you can remove or add one word to make it work.

A stitch in time [saves]... Jackaby
Don't count your chickens [on]... The Isle of the Lost
A penny saved [and]... The Great Brain Reforms
All good things must come [with]... The Wizard of Oz
When in Rome [be]... Rilla of Ingleside
All that glitters is not... The Bridge to Terabithia
A picture is worth... Agnes Grey [Dune? Nothing really works here]
When the going gets tough, the tough gets... Me and My Little Brain
Two wrongs don't make... The Great Brain
The pen is mightier than... The Great Brain at the Academy
The squeaky wheel gets... Dandelion: The Extraordinary Life of a Misfit [or Flunked also works for this one]
Hope for the best, but prepare for... More Adventures of the Great Brain
Birds of a feather flock [to]... The Adventures of Robin Hood

Some of those don't really work, but I was trying! Haha!

That's it for me! Have any of you read these books? Thanks for reading, and have a wonderful 2020!

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