Thursday, January 2, 2020

Best of 2019—Books

In 10 words or less, my top 10 picks from the over 160 books I read last year. You may find old books here but if they're on this list, then they were new to me! In no particular order.




Bollywood Kitchen
by Sri Rao
Home-cooked easy Indian meals paired with Bollywood films. 
(My review here.)

Bollywood: The Films! The Songs! The Stars!
DK Publishing
Stellar look at Bollywood history, background, and new movie resource.
(My review here.)

The Bayeaux Tapestry
by Lucien Musset
Full-colour reproduction of entire Tapestry with a detailed commentary.
(My review here.)

Lent
fantasy by Jo Walton
Priest Girolamo can see demons and cast them into Hell.
(My review here.)

Letter to a Suffering Church
(A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis )
by Bishop Robert Barron
Encourages Catholics to fight for the Church to be true to Christ.
(My review here.)

My Plain Jane
by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows
Funny, inventive, light, alternative history of Jane Eyre. With ghosts.

The Light of Christ
by Thomas Joseph White
A good dose of philosophy with your Catholic faith.
(My reviews here.)

Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God
(Retracing the Ramayana Through India )
by Jonah Blank
Retelling the Ramayana and linking it to Indian culture/history. 

The Last Dance
 by Martin L. Shoemaker
Investigating mutiny charges against captain of Martian spaceship. Heinlein-esque sf.
(My review here.)

The Pioneers
(The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West)
by David McCullough
Back when the West was Ohio. Interesting, inspiring, proud to be American.

1 comment:

  1. You read 160 books a year!!! My goodness. That is impressive.

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