The Books I Read in 2019

January 19, 2020

In 2019, I had a grand plan of writing about the books I read each month. It sounded like a great idea, but life got in the way, blah, blah, etc., so I only got around to publishing January – May. In lieu of that, I’ve put together all 31 books I read in 2019. Books that I enjoyed are in bold.

CX/Professional Non-Fiction

• The Best Service Is No Service
• Everyday Information Architecture
• The Nordstrom Way to Customer Experience Excellence
• The Starbucks Experience
• The Effortless Experience
• Conversational Design
• Creativity, Inc

Fiction

• The Man Who Japed
• The Expanse: Nemesis Games
• The Expanse: Babylon’s Ashes
• Central Station
• A Man Lies Dreaming
• The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth)
• The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth)
• The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth)
• The Dog Stars
• Annihilation (Southern Reach)
• Authority (Southern Reach)
• The Forever War
• Old Man’s War
• The Ghost Brigades
• The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency)
• The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency)
• Ancillary Justice

Non-Fiction

• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
• Atomic Habits
• Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
• How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
• The Taking of K-129
• The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated