Notes from Mt. Bookpile

As part of my goals to catch up, here's the reading from the first half of 2019.  I'm behind by about 17 books as of today, but one of my Massive Summer To Do List™ items is to maybe even get ahead by the time work starts again.

Autobiography/Memoir

• Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston Story and Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story; Peter Bagge
• Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls; T Kira Madden
• The Lady Is a Spy; Don Mitchell
• Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card; Sara Saedi
• Guts; Raina Telgemeier

Children's/Young Adult Fiction

• The Great Jeff; Tony Abbott
• With the Fire on High; Elizabeth Acevedo
• The Library of Ever; Zeno Alexander
• Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak; Adi Alsaid
• A Drop of Hope; Keith Calabrese
• In the Neighborhood of True; Susan Kaplan Carlton
• Belly Up; Eva Darrows
• Start Here; Trish Doller
• Running on Empty; S.E. Durrant
• Waiting for Fitz; Spencer Hyde
• All of Us with Wings; Michelle Ruiz Keil
• At Briarwood School for Girls; Michael Knight
• The Music of What Happens; Bill Konigsberg
• Killing November; Adriana Mather
• #Murderfunding; Gretchen McNeil
• Hurricane Season; Nicole Melleby
• There's Something About Sweetie; Sandhya Menon
• The Library of Lost and Found; Phaedra Patrick
• The Princess and the Fangirl; Ashley Poston
• The Miraculous; Jess  Redman
• Frederik Sandwich and the Earthquake That Couldn't Possibly Be; Kevin John Scott
• Bright Burning Stars; A.K. Small
• Birdie; Eileen Spinelli
• All the Greys on Greene Street; Laura Tucker
• When We Were Lost; Kevin Wignall
• Jada Sly, Artist & Spy; Sherri Winston
• Martin McLean, Middle School Queen; Alyssa Zaczek

Children's/Young Adult Non-Fiction

• Rising Water; Marc Aronson

Children's/Young Adult Speculative Fiction

• Magic By the Book; Nina Bernstein
• The Last Life of Prince Alastor; Alexandra Bracken
• The Gilded Wolves; Roshani Chokshi
• The Binding; Bridget Collins
• House of Salt and Sorrows; Erin A. Craig
• Stepsister; Jennifer Donnelly
• The Deepest Blue; Sarah Beth Durst
• Magic for Liars; Sarah Gailey
• Finale; Stephanie Garber
• The Strangers; Margaret Peterson Haddix
• The Devouring Gray; Christine Lynn Herman
• No Place Like Here; Christina June
• The Absence of Sparrows; Kurt  Kirchmeier
• Kingsbane; Claire Legrand
• Gods of Jade and Shadow; Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Order of the Majestic; Matt Myklusch
• Katt vs. Dogg; James Patterson
• Wilder Girls; Rory Power
• Sorcery of Thorns; Margaret  Rogerson
• Last Things; Jacqueline West
• The Girl King; Mimi Yu

Fiction/Literature

• When You Read This; Mary Adkins
• The Guest Book; Sarah Blake
• The Tenth Muse; Catherine Chung
• Elsey Come Home; Susan  Conley
• Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors; Sonali Dev
• We Went to the Woods; Caite Dolan-Leach
• Diary of a Dead Man on Leave; David Downing
• Please Send Help; Gaby Dunn
• The Poison Bed; E.C. Fremantle
• The Book of Dreams; Nina George
• City of Girls; Elizabeth Gilbert
• The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna; Juliet Grames
• Tidelands; Philippa Gregory
• Red Birds; Mohammed Hanif
• The Gifted School; Bruce Holsinger
• Home for Erring and Outcast Girls; Julie Kibler
• Searching for Sylvie Lee; Jean Kwok
• Talent; Juliet Lapidos
• The Enlightenment of Bees; Rachel Linden
• The Doll Factory; Elizabeth Macneal
• Nottingham; Nathan Makaryk
• Ghost Wall; Sarah Moss
• The Burning Chambers; Kate Mosse
• The Farm; Joanne Ramos
• The Peacock Summer; Hannah Richell
• The Au Pair; Emma Rous
• Once Upon a River; Diane Setterfield
• The Little Teashop on Main; Jodi Thomas
• The Oysterville Sewing Circle; Susan Wiggs
• The Quintland Sisters; Shelley  Wood

Humor

• William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls; Ian Doescher

Mystery/Thriller

• Layover; David Bell
• The Better Sister; Alafair Burke
• Second Sight; Aoife Clifford
• Too Close; Natalie Daniels
• My Lovely Wife; Samantha  Downing
• The Hunting Party; Lucy Foley
• Bonavere Howl; Caitlin Galway
• The Stranger Diaries; Elly Griffiths
• The River; Peter Heller
• The Sentence is Death; Anthony Horowitz
• The Family Upstairs; Lisa Jewell
• The Snakes; Sadie Jones
• The Chain; Adrian McKinty
• The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone; Felicity McLean
• The Whisper Man; Alex North
• In a House of Lies; Ian Rankin
• Careless Love; Peter Robinson
• The Murder List; Hank Phillippi Ryan
• Murder in the Crooked House; Soji Shimada
• Beautiful Bad; Annie Ward

Non-Fiction

• The Last Stone; Mark Bowden
• Working; Robert A. Caro
• Spies of No Country; Matti Friedman
• The Trial of Lizzie Borden; Cara Robertson
• Cosy; Laura Weir

Speculative Fiction

• Westside; W.M. Akers
• Bunny; Mona Awad
• The Kingdom of Copper; S.A. Chakraborty
• The Affair of the Mysterious Letter; Alexis Hall
• The Border Keeper; Kerstin Hall
• In an Absent Dream and Middlegame; Seanan McGuire
• Again, but Better; Christine Riccio
• Silver in the Wood; Emily Tesh
• The Bird King; G. Willow Wilson